This is the 'patriotic passage' which Mr. West discusses in the paper previously referred to. He holds that 'The passage, keeping steadily within the limits so rigidly imposed by Roman Stage-censorship, is written from the stand-point of sympathy with the _plebs_ in favour of Scipio's assuming command against Hannibal, and reflects very brightly and completely those features of the Second Punic War which were prominent and recent in 205 B.C.' The end of many of the prologues also shows that they were addressed to a people constantly engaged in war.] [Footnote 60: Menaech. 590.] [Footnote 61: Cf. such expressions and lines as:--Salva sumes indidem (Mil. Glor. 234); locare argentum; fenerato. Mihi quod credideris, sumes ubi posiueris.--Trinum. 145. Nequaquam argenti ratio comparet tamen.--Ib. 418. Bene igitur ratio accepti atque expensi inter nos convenit.--Mostel. 292.] [Footnote 62: For a list of these cp. the edition of the Mostellaria by the late Professor Ramsay.] [Footnote 63: E.g. Mellitus, ocelle, mea anima, medullitus amare.] [Footnote 64: '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 65: 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 66: '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 67: Non vidisse undas me maiores censeo.--Rudens, 167. Atque ut nunc valide fluctuat mare, nulla nobis spes est. --Ib. 303.] [Footnote 68: 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 69: 9-12.] [Footnote 70: 280, 1.] [Footnote 71: 694, etc.]