[Footnote 3: See the Dramatis Personæ of the Andria.] [Footnote 4: See the Dramatis Personæ of the Andria.] [Footnote 5: See the Dramatis Personæ of the Eunuchus.] [Footnote 6: See the Dramatis Personæ of the Heautontimorumenos.] [Footnote 7: From μυῤῥινὴ “a myrtle.”] [Footnote 8: See the Dramatis Personæ of the Heautontimorumenos.] [Footnote 9: From φιλοτὴς “friendship.”] [Footnote 10: From Syria, her native country.] [Footnote 11: _Menander_)--According to some, this Play was borrowed from the Greek of Apollodorus, a Comic Poet and contemporary of Menander, who wrote forty-seven Plays.] [Footnote 12: _Being Consuls_)--Cneius Octavius Nepos and T. Manlius Torquatus were Consuls in the year from the building of the City 587, and B.C. 166.] [Footnote 13: _It was then approved of_)--“Placuit.” This is placed at the end, in consequence of the inauspicious reception which had been given to it on the two first representations. See the account given in the Prologues.] [Footnote 14: _Hecyra_)--Ver. 1. The Greek word Ἕκυρα, a “step-mother,” or “mother-in-law,” Latinized.] [Footnote 15: _And calamity_)--Ver. 3. “Calamitas.” This word is used in the same sense in the first line of the Eunuch. This is evidently the Prologue spoken on the second attempt to bring forward the piece. On the first occasion it probably had none. “Vitium” was a word used by the Augurs, with whom it implied an unfavorable omen, and thence came to be used for any misfortune or disaster. He seems to mean the depraved taste of the public, that preferred exhibitions of rope-dancers and pugilists to witnessing his Plays.] [Footnote 16: _Again to sell it_)--Ver. 7. See the last Note to the Second Prologue.] [Footnote 17: _Other Plays of his_)--Ver. 8. Madame Dacier informs us that Vossius was of opinion that the second representation of this Play did not take place till after that of the Adelphi. In that case, they had already seen the rest of his Plays.] [Footnote 18: _Second Prologue_)--Eugraphius informs us that this Prologue was spoken by Ambivius Turpio, the head of the company of Actors.]