[Footnote 233: 'Don't threaten me; I know that the cross will be my tomb: there lie my ancestors, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather: but your threats can't dig these eyes out of my head.'--Mil. Glor. 372-5.] [Footnote 234: The conclusion of the Aulularia is lost, but the play seems to have ended with the old man's consigning his treasure into the hands of his son-in-law and daughter.] [Footnote 235: 'The Gods only are rich: great wealth and high connexions are for the Gods; but we, poor creatures, are but a tiny spark of life, and so soon as that is gone, the beggar and the richest man, when dead, are rated alike by the shores of Acheron.'--Trin. 490-4.] [Footnote 236: 'Non vidisse undas me maiores censeo.' Rudens, 167. 'Atque ut nunc valide fluctuat mare, nulla nobis spes est.' Ib. 303.] [Footnote 237: Cf. 'Atque hoc scelesti [illi] in animum inducunt suum Iovem se placare posse donis, hostiis: Et operam et sumptum perdunt: id eo fit quia Nihil ei accemptumst a periuris supplici,' etc.--22-5. ] [Footnote 238: 9-12.] [Footnote 239: 280, 1.] [Footnote 240: 694, etc.] [Footnote 241: 'O Gripus, Gripus! in the life of man are laid many snares, by which they are trapped; and for the most part a bait is laid on them, and whoso in his greed greedily craves for it, by reason of his greed he is caught in the trap. But whoso warily, wisely, craftily takes heed, to him it is given long to enjoy what has been well earned. That prize of yours, I fancy, will be so made prize of, as to bring a larger dower in going from us than when it came to us. To fancy that I should be capable of keeping secret possession of what I know to be another's property? Far will that be from our friend Daemones! It is the absolute duty of a wise man to be on his guard against ever being privy to any wrong done by his own people. I never would care for any gain, except when I am in the game.'--Rudens, 1235-48.] [Footnote 242: 'Provided it be not for wrong done, let me perish, I care not. If I shall perish here, while he returns not, as he promised, yet even after death this will be a memorable act, that I restored my master from captivity and his enemies to his father and his home, and chose rather to emperil my own life here than that he should perish.'--Captivi, 682-8.] [Footnote 243: 'So it befell my mistress this day: for when she calls the powers of travail to her aid, lo! there ensues a rumbling, rattling noise, loud uproar and a peal of thunder--all of a sudden how fast, how mightily it thundered! At the crash each one fell on the spot where he stood. Then some one, I know not who, exclaims in a loud voice, "Alcmena, be not afraid; help is at hand: the dweller in the skies draweth nigh with kindly intent to thee and thine. Arise ye who from the dread inspired by me have fallen down in alarm." As I lay, I rose up: methought the house was all on fire, so brightly did it shine.'--Amphitruo, 1060-67.]