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[Footnote 1: Prologue to Casina, 18, 19.]
[Footnote 2: Prologue to Amphitryo, 52.]
[Footnote 3: Licinius and Atilius are placed before Terence in the Canon of Volcatius Sedigitus.]
[Footnote 4: E.g. Pseudolus, 1081:--
'Nugas theatri: verba quae in comoediis Solent lenoni dici, quae pueri sciunt.'
Cf. also Captivi, 778.]
[Footnote 5: The influence of Plautus may be traced in the style of Catullus, and perhaps in the sentiment of the pa.s.sage in Lucretius, iv. 1121, etc.; and that of Terence also in Catullus, and in the Satires, Epistles, and some of the Odes of Horace.]
[Footnote 6: Fundanius, the friend of Horace, appears to have made an attempt to produce an artistic revival of the old comedy in the Augustan age, as Pollio, Varius, Ovid and others did of the old tragic drama, but with no permanent success.]
[Footnote 7: E.g. the dance of Pseudolus. Pseud. 1246, etc.]
[Footnote 8: Cic. Brut. 15. 60; De Senec. 14. 50.]
[Footnote 9: Cf. Cicero's testimony to the purity of the style of Naevius and Plautus with his criticism on the style of Caecilius and Pacuvius. Terence was the only foreigner who attained perfect idiomatic purity of speech, but he must have been brought to Rome when quite a child.]
[Footnote 10: 'Puplicisne adfinis fuit an maritumis negotiis?'--Trinum. 331.]
[Footnote 11: See the paper by Professor H. F. West, reprinted from the American Journal of Philology, referred to supra page 54.]
[Footnote 12: Cf. the line at the end of the Prologue to the Cistellaria (Act. i. Sc. 3)--
'Ut vobis victi Poeni poenas sufferant.'
The 'Didascalia' to the Stichus is one of the few preserved.
From it we learn that the play was acted P. Sulpicio, C.
Aurelio, Cos., i.e. 200 B.C.]
[Footnote 13: This is shown in some cases by reference to seats in the theatre, which were not introduced till 155 B.C.
In the Prologue to the Casina it is said that only the older men present could remember the first production of that play in the life-time of the poet. The Prologues to the Aulularia, Trinummus, and Rudens, are probably genuine, and also the speech of _Auxilium_ in the Cistellaria.]
[Footnote 14: Cf. Rudens, 1249:--
Spectavi ego pridem comicos ad istum modum Sapienter dicta dicere atque is plaudier, Quom illos sapientis mores monstrabant poplo.
Set quom inde suam quisque ibant divorsi domum Nullus erat illo pacto ut illi iusserant.]
[Footnote 15: Pseud. 687.]
[Footnote 16: E.g. Rudens, 986.]
[Footnote 17: Quid? Sarsinatis ecquast, si Umbram non habes.--Mostel. 757.]
[Footnote 18: Post Ephesi sum natus, noenum in Apulis, noenum Aminulae.--Mil. Glor. 653.
Quid tu per barbaricas urbes iuras? _Erg._ Quia enim item asperae Sunt ut tuum victum autumabas esse.--Captiv. 884-5.]
[Footnote 19: Capt. 879; Trinum. 609; Truc. iii. 2. 23; Bacch.
24.]
[Footnote 20:
Quid tibi, malum, hic ante aedis clamitatiost?
An ruri censes te esse? apscede ab aedibus.--Most. 6. 7.]
[Footnote 21: Vol. ii, p. 440; Eng. Trans.]
[Footnote 22: Cf. Trinum. 820, etc.; Menaechmi, 228, etc.; Stichus, 402, etc.]
[Footnote 23:
Ita iam quasi canes, haud secus circ.u.mstabant navem turbine venti, Imbres, fluctus, atque procellae infensae (fremere) frangere malum, Ruere antennas, scindere vela, ni pax propitia foret praesto.--
Trinum. 835-7.]
[Footnote 24: E.g. Rudens, 906; Trinum. 820.]
[Footnote 25: 'I shall trade in big s.h.i.+ps: at the courts of princes I shall be styled a prince. Afterwards for my amus.e.m.e.nt I shall build a s.h.i.+p and imitate Stratonicus; I shall visit towns in my voyages: when I shall have become famous, I'll build a big town, and call it Gripus.'--Rudens, 931-5.]
[Footnote 26: Pseud. 166.]
[Footnote 27:
Non enim haec pultif.a.gus opufex opera fecit barbarus.--
Mostel. 815.]
[Footnote 28:
Quantus sit Dossennus edacibus in parasitis.]
[Footnote 29: Pseud. 1229, etc.]
[Footnote 30: Stichus, 682, etc.]
[Footnote 31: Cf. Pseud. 720:--
Horum causa haec agitur spectatorum fabula, Hi sciunt qui hic adfuerunt; vobis post narravero.]
[Footnote 32: Pseud. 401-2.]
[Footnote 33: Bacchid. 214.]
