[Footnote 30: _What! I to her?_)--Ver. 65. Donatus remarks that this is an abrupt manner of speaking familiarly to persons in anger; and that the sentences are thus to be understood, “I, go to her? Her, who has received him! Who has excluded me!”-- inasmuch as indignation loves to deal in Ellipsis and Aposiopesis.] [Footnote 31: _The downfall of our fortunes_)--Ver. 79. Colman observes, “There is an extreme elegance in this passage in the original; and the figurative expression is beautifully employed.” “Calamitas” was originally a word used in husbandry, which signified the destruction of growing corn; because, as Donatus says, “Comminuit {calamum} et segetem;”-- “it strikes down the blades and standing corn.”] [Footnote 32: _Approach this fire_)--Ver. 85. “Ignem” is generally supposed to be used figuratively here, and to mean “the flame of love.” Eugraphius, however, would understand the expression literally, observing that courtesans usually had near their doors an altar sacred to Venus, on which they daily sacrificed.] [Footnote 33: _Of course it’s because_)--Ver. 89. It must be observed that these words, commencing with “Sane, quia vero,” in the original, are said by Phædria not in answer to the words of Thais immediately preceding, but to her previous question, “Cur non recta introibas?” “Why didn’t you come into the house at once?” and that they are spoken in bitter irony.] [Footnote 34: _From Sunium_)--Ver. 115. This was a town situate near a lofty Promontory of that name in Attica. It was famous for a fair which was held there. “Sunium’s rocky brow” is mentioned by Byron in the song of the Greek Captive in the third Canto of Don Juan.] [Footnote 35: _Set out for Caria_)--Ver. 126. This was a country of Asia Minor upon the sea-coast, opposite to the island of Rhodes.] [Footnote 36: _Servant-maid from Æthiopia_)--Ver. 165. No doubt Æthiopian or negro slaves were much prized by the great, and those courtesans whose object it was to ape their manners.] [Footnote 37: _Ladies of quality_)--Ver. 168. “Reginæ,” literally “queens,” here means women of rank and distinction.] [Footnote 38: _Paid twenty minæ_)--Ver. 169. The “minæ” contained one hundred “drachmæ” of about 9¾_d._ each.] [Footnote 39: _Ah wretched me!_)--Ver. 197. Donatus remarks that the Poet judiciously reserves that part of the plot to be told here, which Thais did not relate to Phædria in the presence of Parmeno; whom the Poet keeps in ignorance as to the rank of the damsel, that he may with the more probability dare to assist Chærea in his attempt on her.]