PAM. Her father is an intimate friend of ours. DAV. Who? PAM. Chremes. DAV. You do tell good news. PAM. And there’s no hinderance to my marrying her at once. CHAR. (_apart._) Is he dreaming the same that he has been wishing for when awake? PAM. Then about the child, Davus. DAV. O, say no more; you are the only person whom the Gods favor. CHAR. (_apart._) I’m all right if these things are true. I’ll accost them. (_Comes forward._) PAM. Who is this? {Why,} Charinus, you meet me at the very nick of time. CHAR. That’s all right. PAM. Have you heard--? CHAR. Every thing; come, in your good fortune do have some regard for me. Chremes is now at your command; I’m sure that he’ll do every thing you wish. PAM. I’ll remember you; and because it is tedious for us to wait for him until he comes out, follow me this way; he is now in-doors at the house of Glycerium; do you, Davus, go home; send with all haste to remove her thence. Why are you standing {there}? Why are you delaying? DAV. I’m going. (_PAMPHILUS and CHARINUS go into the house of GLYCERIUM. DAVUS then comes forward and addresses the Audience._) Don’t you wait until they come out from there; she will be betrothed within: if there is any thing else that remains, it will be transacted in-doors. Grant us your applause.[101] FOOTNOTES [Footnote 1: From σιμὸς, “flat-nosed.”] [Footnote 2: From πᾶν, “all,” and φιλὸς, “a friend.”] [Footnote 3: From σώζω, “to save;” saved in war.] [Footnote 4: From χρέμπτομαι, “to spit.”] [Footnote 5: From ξάρις, “grace.”] [Footnote 6: From κριτής, “a judge.”] [Footnote 7: From Dacia, his native country; the Davi and Daci being the same people.] [Footnote 8: From δρόμος, “a race.”] [Footnote 9: From πυῤῥὸς, “red-haired.”] [Footnote 10: From γλυκερὸς, “sweet.”] [Footnote 11: From Mysia, her native country.] [Footnote 12: From Lesbos, her native country.] [Footnote 13: _The Megalensian Games_)--These games were instituted at Rome in honor of the Goddess Cybele, when her statue was brought thither from Pessinum, in Asia Minor, by Scipio Nasica; they were so called from the Greek title Μεγάλη Μήτηρ, “the Great Mother.” They were called Megalesia or Megalensia, indifferently. A very interesting account of the origin of these games will be found in the Fasti of Ovid. B. iv. l. 194, et seq.] [Footnote 14: _Being Curule Ædiles_)--Among the other offices of the Ædiles at Rome, it was their duty to preside at the public games, and to provide the necessary dramatic representations for the Theatre, by making contracts with the Poets and Actors.]