[Footnote 67: _Six hundred actions_)--Ver. 667. “Sescentos;” literally, “six hundred.” The Romans used this term as we do the words “ten thousand,” to signify a large, but indefinite number.] [Footnote 68: _A strange black dog_)--Ver. 705. This omen, Plautus calls, in the Casina, l. 937, “canina scæva.”] [Footnote 69: _Through the sky-light_)--Ver. 706. So in the Amphitryon of Plautus, l. 1108, two great snakes come down through the “impluvium,” or “sky-light.” On the subject of the “impluvium,” see the Notes to the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus, l. 159.] [Footnote 70: _A hen crowed_)--Ver. 707. Donatus tells us that it was a saying, that in the house where a hen crowed, the wife had the upper hand.] [Footnote 71: _The soothsayer-- the diviner_)--Ver. 708. According to some accounts there was this difference between the “hariolus” and the “aruspex,” that the former foretold human events, the latter those relating to the Deities. Donatus has remarked on these passages, that Terence seems to sneer at the superstitions referred to.] [Footnote 72: _Can find them now_)--Ver. 726. His Lemnian wife and daughter. Colman remarks: “This is intended as a transition to the next Scene; but I think it would have been better if it had followed without this kind of introduction. The Scene itself is admirable, and is, in many places, both affecting and comic, and the discovery of the real character of Phanium is made at a very proper time.”] [Footnote 73: _My daughter’s nurse_)--Ver. 735. Among the ancients, it was the custom for nurses who had brought up children to remain with them in after-life.] [Footnote 74: _Where are the ladies?_)--Ver. 748. “Ubi illæ?” literally, “Where are these women?”] [Footnote 75: _Run beyond the house_)--Ver. 767. “Fugias ne præter casam.” This passage has given much trouble to the Commentators; but it is pretty clear that the explanation of Donatus is the correct one: “Don’t abandon your own home,” that being the safest place. Stallbaum agrees with Gronovius in thinking that it was first applied as a piece of advice to runaway slaves, as being likely to become worse off by the change; probably much in the same spirit as we say, “Out of the frying-pan into the fire.”] [Footnote 76: _Paying by borrowing_)--Ver. 779. “Versura solvere,” was “to pay a debt by borrowing money,” and consequently to be no better off than before. Geta having, by the money he has procured, freed Phædria from all danger of losing his mistress, but at the same time having brought Antipho into still greater danger of losing his wife.] [Footnote 77: _Or his talking_)--Ver. 782. “Ejus” here alludes, not to Nausistrata but to Phormio. Madame Dacier suggests that it should be “hujus.”]