[Footnote 21: _Composed the Andrian_)--Ver. 9. This Play, like that of our author, took its name from the Isle of Andros, one of the Cyclades in the Ægean Sea, where Glycerium is supposed to have been born. Donatus, the Commentator on Terence, informs us that the first Scene of this Play is almost a literal translation from the Perinthian of Menander, in which the old man was represented as discoursing with his wife just as Simo does here with Sosia. In the Andrian of Menander, the old man opened with a soliloquy.] [Footnote 22: _And the Perinthian_)--Ver. 9. This Play was so called from Perinthus, a town of Thrace, its heroine being a native of that place.] [Footnote 23: _Nævius, Plautus, and Ennius_)--Ver. 18. Ennius was the oldest of these three Poets. Nævius a contemporary of Plautus. See a probable allusion to his misfortunes in the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus, l. 211.] [Footnote 24: _The mystifying carefulness_)--Ver. 21. By “obscuram diligentiam” he means that formal degree of precision which is productive of obscurity.] [Footnote 25: _Are to be taken care of, I suppose_)--Ver. 30. “Nempe ut curentur recte hæc.” Colman here remarks; “Madame Dacier will have it that Simo here makes use of a kitchen term in the word ‘curentur.’ I believe it rather means ‘to take care of’ any thing generally; and at the conclusion of this very scene, Sosia uses the word again, speaking of things very foreign to cookery, ‘Sat est, curabo.’”] [Footnote 26: _To be my freedman_)--Ver. 37. “Libertus” was the name given to a slave set at liberty by his master. A “libertinus” was the son of a “libertus.”] [Footnote 27: _As it were a censure_)--Ver. 43. Among the Greeks (whose manners and sentiments are supposed to be depicted in this Play) it was a maxim that he who did a kindness should forget it, while he who received it should keep it in memory. Sosia consequently feels uneasy, and considers the remark of his master in the light of a reproach.] [Footnote 28: _After he had passed from youthfulness_)--Ver. 51. “Ephebus” was the name given to a youth when between the ages of sixteen and twenty.] [Footnote 29: _And a master_)--Ver. 54. See the Notes to the Translation of the Bacchides of Plautus, l. 109, where Lydus, a slave, appears as the “pædagogus,” or “magister,” of Pistoclerus.] [Footnote 30: _Or to the philosophers_)--Ver. 57. It was the custom in Greece with all young men of free birth to apply themselves to the study of philosophy, of course with zeal proportioned to the love of learning in each. They each adopted some particular sect, to which they attached themselves. There is something sarcastic here, and indeed not very respectful to the “philosophers,” in coupling them as objects of attraction with horses and hounds.]