[Footnote 69: _If, indeed, she loved me_)--Ver. 446. Colman has the following Note upon this passage: “I am at a loss to determine whether it was in order to show the absurdity of the Captain or from inadvertence in the Poet, that Terence here makes Thraso and Gnatho speak in contradiction to the idea of Thais’s wonderful veneration for Thraso, with which they opened the Scene.”] [Footnote 70: _In exercises_)--Ver. 477. Reference will be found made to the “palæstræ,” or “places of exercise,” in the Notes to the Translation of Plautus.] [Footnote 71: _If occasion served_)--Ver. 479. The Aposiopesis in this line is very aptly introduced, on account of the presence of the female; but it admirably illustrates the abominable turpitude of the speaker, and perhaps in a somewhat more decent manner than that in which Plautus attributes a similar tendency to his Braggart Captain, l. 1111.] [Footnote 72: _Out of the very flames_)--Ver. 491. This was a proverb expressive of the lowest degree of meanness and infamy. When they burned the bodies of the dead, it was the custom of the ancients to throw meat and various articles of food upon the funeral pile, and it was considered the greatest possible affront to tell a person that he was capable of snatching these things out of the flames.] [Footnote 73: _If Chremes should happen to come_)--Ver. 513. This is the first allusion to the arrangement which ultimately causes the quarrel between Thais and the Captain.] [Footnote 74: _Had been offering a sacrifice_)--Ver. 513. It was the custom to sacrifice before entering on affairs of importance. Thus, too, Jupiter, in the Amphitryon of Plautus, l. 938, speaks of offering sacrifice on his safe return.] [Footnote 75: _Our rings were given_)--Ver. 541. It was the custom of parties who agreed to join in a “symbola,” or “club” or “picnic” entertainment, to give their rings as pledges to the “rex convivii,” or “getter up the feast.” Stakes were also deposited on making bets at races. See Ovid’s Art of Love, B. i., l. 168.] [Footnote 76: _To meet my death_)--Ver. 550. There is a passage in the Othello of Shakspeare extremely similar to this: --“If I were now to die, I were now to be most happy; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort, like to this, Succeeds in unknown fate.”] [Footnote 77: _In the inner apartments_)--Ver. 579. The “Gynecæa,” or women’s apartments, among the Greeks, always occupied the interior part of the house, which was most distant from the street, and there they were kept in great seclusion.] [Footnote 78: _A few novices of girls_)--Ver. 582. These “noviciæ” were young slaves recently bought, and intended to be trained to the calling of a Courtesan.]