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T MACCI PLAVTI 
 MENAECHMEI 
 
 WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL 
 AND AN INTRODUCTION 
 
 BY 
 
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PKEFACE. 
 
 The present edition of the Menaechmei forms a com- 
 panion volume to the Aulularia and the Trinummus, 
 and -will in course of time be succeeded by other 
 plays of Plautus annotated in the same manner. The 
 Editor has conscientiously examined the labours of his 
 predecessors, and hopes that both his critical notes and 
 the exegetical commentary will prove that he is suffi- 
 ciently acquainted with the works of former scholars 
 in this field of Latin literature. It should, however, 
 be confessed that anything like completeness ■ is not 
 within the scope of the present work, and that the 
 principal consideration which guided the Editor in his 
 selection of the materials to be placed before his 
 readers has been the practical bearing of an observa- 
 tion upon the explanation of the text. The critical notes 
 should not be deemed superfluous ; they contain many 
 valuable materials and may, in the hands of an able 
 teacher, become the basis of many useful disquisitions 
 calculated to strengthen the reasoning powers of his 
 pupils. , 
 
 Amongst former commentators, the greatest amount 
 of praise is due to Lambinus. Many niceties of style 
 and phraseology have been copiously illustrated by 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 extracts from Pareus' Lexicon Criticum and Lexicon 
 Plautinum. It has of late become a fashion among 
 Plautine scholars to abuse Pareus without the least 
 mercy, nor would I greatly recommend him for clearness 
 and power of judgment — but he may be safely praised 
 for industry and plodding and toilsome laboriousness. 
 His Lexicon Criticum has been turned to very good 
 use by all succeeding lexicographers, but very few have 
 thought it worth while to record their obligations to 
 him. 
 
 In conclusion, the Editor begs to observe that the 
 text of this edition is entirely his own, and ventures 
 to hope that some of his readings will find favour with 
 his fellow-workers in the field of Plautine criticism. 
 
 Hamburg, 
 
 Christmas, 1877. 
 
INTKODUCTION. 
 
 The subject of which, the 'Menaechmei' of Plautus would 
 seem to be the earliest extant version, i. e. the mistakes 
 and 'errors' arising from the deceptive resemblance of 
 two brothers, furnishes a very happy plot for a lively 
 comic entertainment, and has, therefore, been in great 
 favour with the comic poets of almost all nations of 
 Europe. It was formerly supposed that this plot was 
 derived from the Sicilian poet Epicharmus,*who spent the 
 latter part of his life at Syracuse at the court of Hiero, 
 and died at the age of 90 (450 B.C.) or 97 (443 B.C.). 
 This view was founded on the statement of the prologue 
 to the Menaechmei, v. 12, according to which the plot of 
 the play sicelissat — an expression erroneously understood 
 as applying to the Sicilian origin of the plot, while it 
 merely denotes that the events in the play are in some 
 way connected with Sicily, or that the preliminaries of 
 the plot take place in ' that island. This supposition 
 was further strengthened by the somewhat vague expres- 
 sion of Horace, Ep. II 1, 58 (dicitur) Plautus ad exemplar 
 Siculi proper are Epicharmi. But this does not mean 
 that Plautus ever took a plot from Epicharmus, but only 
 draws a parallel between the easy and rapid development 
 of the single events of the plot of a Plautine play and 
 the plays of Epicharmus. 
 
 It is certain that Plautus derived the plots of his 
 plays from the rich stores of the so-called Nt'a K<o/*o)8ta, 
 and it is among the numerous poets and plays of that 
 branch of Greek literature that we shall have to look for 
 the original inventor of the plot of the present play. A 
 
VI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 small detail, insignificant at first sight, seems to help us 
 in tracing the Greek poet. It is a little piece of informa- 
 tion supplied by Athenaeus, and reproduced in our note 
 on v. 218. If it be true that slave-cooks appeared, among 
 all the poets of the New Comedy, only in the comedies of 
 Posidippus, we cannot reasonably doubt that he was the 
 author of the Greek original, which has survived in the 
 Latin adaptation of Plautus. It has been pointed out by 
 Ladewig, that cooks played a conspicuous part in the 
 plays of Posidippus, as may still be seen from the few 
 fragments extant 1 ; and as Gellius n 23 observes that the 
 plays of Posidippus were employed by Roman adapters, 
 we may easily suppose that Plautus was glad to avail 
 himself of such a capital plot which was sure to furnish 
 much amusement to his audience. 
 
 It has been conjectured that the Greek original bore 
 the title of Ai8iy*oi, which was also that of several other 
 plays of the New Comedy mentioned by ancient authors. 
 Such plays are attributed to Antiphanes, Anaxandrides, 
 Alexius, Xenarchus and Euphron, and there is a At'Sv/tai 
 mentioned among the plays of Menander. 
 
 Though there are several allusions to Roman customs 
 in the Plautine plays— and, in fact, not one is free from 
 such admixtures — we need not suppose that the plot of 
 the Greek original was in any way altered by the Roman 
 /-adapter. We do not knQw when Plautus wrote his 
 Menaechmei, and there is not the slightest foundation for 
 the supposition which attributes this comedy to the 
 earlier part of the poet's literary career. The passage re- 
 lating to the kings of Syracuse is of too fantastic a nature 
 to justify the conclusion that the play was acted during 
 the reign of Hiero, though this has been maintained 
 by several scholars. 
 
 A capital criticism of this play has been given by 
 Ritschl, Opusc. ii 735, from which we may be permitted 
 to extract the following observations : 
 
 "The whole piece is full of the highest art, and 
 
 1 See Meineke, fragm. com. 28. Ladewig, Philologus t 2, ' 
 gr. I 2, p. 482—4. iv p. 513— p. 275 sq. 
 
INTRODUCTION. VU 
 
 abounds in comic power. The single situations of the < > 
 plot do not, indeed, originate from an inner cause which 
 furnishes the creative power of them, but arise all the 
 more powerfully from mere fancy and an inexhaustible 
 fund of boisterous humour, prompted by Chance itself, 
 the real deity of Comedy. The plot is of less depth than 
 the AululaTra, but it surpasses that play in its almost in- 
 describable power of amusing, and is after all constructed 
 in such, a manner that we cannot mistake Chance for 
 blind accident or unreason. All these mistakes are to a 
 certain extent justified by the original relation of the two 
 brothers, who must needs be brought together again — and 
 this forms a kind of fate or necessity, which deepens the 
 interest of the plot. If two strangers were mistaken for' 
 each other in the same surprising manner, we should 
 consider the whole to be altogether exaggerated." 
 
 The ' Menaechmei ' belonged to the first comedies imi- 
 tated in modern literature. The earliest regular comedy 
 of modern times was founded on the Menaechmei. This 
 is the Cdlandra of Bibbiena (afterwards a Cardinal); it 
 was represented at Venice in 1508, though not published 
 till 1524 '. It would seem that the ' Calandra' was also 
 the earliest play performed by the Italian actors at the 
 court of Henry II., King of France 2 , and the plot may 
 thus be supposed to have been a favourite with the public 
 of the 16th century. In England a prose-translation of 
 the Menaechmei, by ' W. W.,' was printed in 1595 ; but a 
 Historie of Error is mentioned as having been performed 
 by the Children of Paul's 'on New yeres daie at night' _,, 
 1576 — 7. /The same piece was acted at Windsor in 1583. / , 
 In 1594 a Comedy of Errors ('like to Plautus his 
 Menaechmus ') was acted • at Gray's Inn. Shakspere's 
 Comedy of Errors, one of the earliest of his productions, 
 is well known a . In French literature, the most success-. 
 
 1 See Hallam'a Introduction Napione di Cocconato, Dell'uso 
 to the Literature of Europe e de' pregi della lingua Italiana, 
 (Murray, 1872), VoL I p.' 263. Tor. 1792, Vol. I p. 212 sq. 
 
 2 Accenna poscia (Marguerit, 3 See A. W. Ward, Engl. 
 the king's sister) la rappresen- Dram. Lit. I p. 373. 
 
 tazione dellaCalandra. Galeano — — — — _ 
 
Vlll INTRODUCTION, 
 
 ful imitation of the Plautine play is Eegnard's comedy 
 Les Menechmes ou les Jumecmx ' 
 
 The drama of the German poet Maximilian von 
 Klinger (who died 1831) Die Zwttlinge* has not the 
 slightest resemblance to the Menaechmei, but is a tragedy 
 on the fate of two brothers, the younger of whom kills 
 the elder, whom he thinks to be unjustly preferred by 
 his parents. 
 
 1 Written in 1705. We can- a Written in 1774. See H. 
 
 not refrain from adding that we Kurz, Geschichte der deutschen 
 
 dislike the frivolous tone of this Littemtur, Vol. ni p. 424. 
 comedy. 
 
T. MACCI PLAVTI 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 W. M. 
 
A = codex Ambrosianus, at Milan. 
 £= codex Vetus, in the Vatican Library. 
 C' = codes Decurtatus, at Heidelberg. 
 D= codex Vaticanus 3870. 
 iJ=F. Bitschl. 
 
ARGVMENTVM. 
 
 Heritor Siculus, quoi erant gemini filii, 
 ei surrupto altero mors 6ptigit. 
 nonien surrupti indit illi, qui domist, 
 av6s paternus, facit Menaechmum e S6sicle. 
 5 et is germanum, pdstquam adolevit, qua^ritat 
 circum omnis oras. p6st Epidamnum d<£venit: 
 hue fuerat ductus ille subrepticius. 
 Menadchmum civem cre'dunt omnes £dvenam, 
 
 2. surrupto ill o rum altero B,., in order to avoid the hiatus, but 
 illorum is not in the mss. altero ilico C. F. W. Mifller Pros. p. 
 498. 3. ibi added before indit by E. surreptiti illi indit B, sub- 
 reptici indit C. F. W. Miiller Pros. p. 490. 4. fdcit Brix, facit E. 
 (who considers the syllables -us facit as an anapaest) . See Miiller, 
 Pros* p. 110. 7. hue Meursius, hie the mss. 8. omnes civem 
 credunt mss., transposed by Py lades. 
 
 For the time in which the however, orit. note. (So again 
 
 'argumenta acrosticha' prefixed in the following line.) For sur- 
 
 to the Plautine comedies were rupto, the regular Plautine form 
 
 composed, we may in general instead of surrepto, see our note 
 
 refer to our note on the arg. of on Aul. 39. 
 
 the Trinummus, p. 3 of our 4. facit should be pronounc- 
 
 (seeond) edition. ed like faci, by dropping the 
 
 1., The hiatus in quoi erant is final t. Sosicles was the former 
 
 legitimate: Introd. to Aul. p. name, comp. v. 1125 sqq. 
 
 68. 7. The Plautine form would 
 
 . 2. ei should be pronounced be surrupticius. 
 
 in two syllables: Introd. Aul. 8. We should understand 
 
 p. 63. After surrupto we-should omnes credunt advenam (subject) 
 
 assume a hiatus, which may (esse) Menaechmum civem (pre- 
 
 be justified by the caesura ; see, dicate). 
 
 1—2 
 
ARGVMENTVM. 
 
 elimque appellant m^retrix, uxor & socer. 
 lOibi se cognoscunt fratres postremo Invicem. 
 
 10. ibi Bothe, E. ii mss. 
 
 9. appellare ' accost, address'; 
 a common meaning : • see diet. 
 s. v. 
 
 10. se — invicem is foreign to 
 the style of Flautus, as was 
 pointed out by Brix on Capt. 
 394. Flautus uses vicem as an 
 adverbial accusative with a pos- 
 sessive pronoun (nostram or 
 meam vicem) or a genitive (eri 
 vicem) in the sense of ' in place 
 of. So also Ter. Haut. 749. 
 invicem ' by. turns ' occurs Atnph. 
 arg. ii 6, in the present place, 
 and Mil. Gl. n 1, 72 in a scene 
 
 of un-Plautine origin. As has 
 been shown by J. N. Ott (Jahrb. 
 109 p. 863), se — invicem does not 
 occur before Tacitus (Agr. 6. 
 Dial. 25?) and Pliny the young- 
 er (in 7, 15); it is, however, 
 very common in the second 
 half of the second century after 
 Christ, and occurs four times 
 in Justinus, who has also invi- 
 cem sibi xli 4, 4. This fact 
 may be of use in fixing the 
 chronological date of these ar- 
 guments. 
 
PEKSONAE. 
 
 PENICVLVS PAEASITVS 
 
 MENAECHMVS I. 
 
 MENAECHMVS II. (SOSICLBS) l '" 
 
 EEOTIVM MEBEIEIX 
 
 CYLINDEVS ooqtos 
 
 MESSENIO servos 
 
 ANCILLA 
 
 MATEONA 
 
 SENEX 
 
 MEDICVS 
 
PKOLOGVS. 
 
 Salutem pritaum iam £/principio pr6pitiam 
 mihi £tqug j.o ( bis^ sp&tato/res, nunjtio. 
 app6rto vobis Plautum lingua, n3h manu : 
 quaeso ut benignis accijftatis aurlbus. 
 5 nunc argumentum accipite atque animum adv6rtite : s 
 quam potero in verba c6nferam paucissuma. 
 
 - — . - '.. 
 
 atque h6c poetae faciunt in comoe'diis : 
 
 After v. 6 E. places the two lines v. 11 and 12. We have main- 
 tained the arrangement of the mss. 7. atqui It. against the mss. 
 
 For the authorship of the 
 prologues prefixed to the Plaut- 
 ine plays see my note on the 
 prologues to the Trinunimus 
 and to the Aulularia. The pre- 
 sent prologue is by no means a 
 very skilful composition ; it may 
 be easily shown that all the 
 facts mentioned in it are de- 
 rived from the play itself, and 
 are generally communicated in 
 the very words of the play. 
 This prologue is, moreover, made 
 up of two different pieces, the 
 first of which terminates, at v. 
 6, and formed originally part of 
 a shorter prologue. 
 
 1. The expression salus pro- 
 pitta seems to occur only here. 
 The adj. proyitius is generally 
 and in earlier Latin almost ex- 
 clusively applied to persons, 
 but in Trin. 837 we read pax 
 propitia. The original sense of 
 propitius would seem to be 
 'bending forward' in a listening 
 
 attitude, as of a god listening 
 to the prayers of men. 
 
 3. A foolish joke, apporto 
 Plautum should of course be 
 understood 'I bring you a play 
 of Plautus'; apportare being the 
 technical term for announcing a 
 performance (comp. Ter.Phorm. 
 prol. 24). 
 
 6. The present line would 
 seem to announce a short pro- 
 logue, but then what tedious- 
 ness does the author afterwards 
 bestow upon us! Very prob- 
 ably, these lines formed the 
 introduction to a much shorter 
 prologue than the one with 
 which they are now connected. 
 
 7. The lines 7 — 16 forming 
 a detached fragment of some 
 nrologue, it is impossible (or at 
 least unadvisable) to guess the 
 original sense of atque, which 
 is of course dependent on the 
 sentence originally preceding it. 
 (See crit. note.) 
 
8 MENAECHMEI. [PEOL. 8 — 15. 
 
 omnis res gestas &se Athenis autumant, ^ 
 quo v6bis illud gra&um videatur magis._ 
 
 10 ego nfisqiiafn dicam, nisi' «bi factum djbitur. 10 
 
 atque £deo hoc argume'ntum graeciss^t: tamen 
 non dtticissat: ve'rum sicelissat tamen. , , 
 
 huic argumento antelogium h6c fuit: i"* 
 nunc argumentum v6bis demenstim dabo, 
 
 15 non m6dio neque trimddio, verum ipso hdrreo : i5 
 
 alii hoc Miiller Nachtr. p. 128. 9. illud vobis graecum mss., trans- 
 posed by Pylades. 12. sicilicis sitat B, sicilissitat or sicelissitat 
 former editors, tamen om. mss. , added by B. See Miiller Pros, 
 p. 694. 13. huie fabulae argumento B., to avoid the hiatus, ante 
 elongium hoc JB, n in the second word having been corrected. 
 
 8. This observation is not 
 true. The scene of the Bu- 
 dens, e.g., is laid at Cyrenae, 
 that of the Amphitr uo at Thebes, 
 and others again at other places. 
 
 9. illud 'the whole affair'. 
 This neuter may probably refer 
 to an antecedent argumentum. 
 
 10. ego should be under- 
 stood of the dominus gregis, i.e. 
 the manager, who would seem 
 to be the speaker of the pro- 
 logue. It is at all events clear 
 that there is an antithesis be- 
 tween poetae (v. 7) and ego. 'I 
 shall in no instance pretend the 
 play to take place at Athens, 
 unless I have been credibly as- 
 sured that it actually happened 
 there'. 
 
 11. atque adeo 'and indeed', 
 involving a certain rectification 
 of a previous statement. See 
 Ellendt-Seyffert 343, 4, and 
 Holtze, Synt. n p. 334 sq— 
 graecissare is formed like mala- 
 cissare {iia\aidjya>) badissare (/3a- 
 Slfavypatrissare [irarpli;etv?) and 
 may be compared with the 
 Greek £\\i)i>l£civ. It is, how- 
 ever, confined to the present 
 
 place, and should be under- 
 stood of having a tinge of Greek. 
 The formations atticissare {dr- 
 nxlfav) and sicelissare (<r«eX(- 
 feiv) should be taken in the 
 same sense. 
 
 ' 12. tamen 'after all' or 'at 
 least'. 
 
 •/ 13. huic argumento ' the plot 
 which is to follow'. On ante- 
 logium Lambinus observes 'vox 
 est ex latina et graeca compo- 
 sita, significatque id omne quod 
 ante orationem legitimam pro- 
 oemii causa dicitur'. (See also 
 crit. note. The hiatus between 
 antelogium and hoc cannot be 
 justified.) 
 
 14. argumentum vobis de- 
 mensum dabo 'I will give you 
 your allowance of the plot': for 
 the demensum of slaves, comp. 
 Ter. Phorrn. 43. The past par- 
 ticiple should be taken in a 
 passive sense. 
 
 15. ' Not by the peck or with 
 a three-peck measure, but by 
 emptying upon you the whole 
 granary'. Lamb, explains 'nunc 
 vobis argumentum explicabo 
 non paroe neque restricte neque 
 
PROL. 16 — 26.] MENAEOHMEI. 9 
 
 tanta &d narrandum argtimentumst benignitas. ( w * A ) ) ) 
 
 mercator qui,dam fuit Suracusis/ senex. 
 
 ei sunt nati filii gemini duo, 
 
 ita fdrma simili pueri, uti mate'r sua 
 20 non inteniosse p6sset quae" matnmam dabat, ao 
 
 neque £deo , mater ipsa ? quae illos pepererat ; 
 
 ut quidem ille dixit mihi, qui pueros viderat : 
 
 ego ill6s non vidi, ne* quis vostrum censeat. ,,, uAV 
 
 postquam iam pueri se'ptuennes siint, pater, '' 
 1o oneravit navim inagnam multis me"rcibus. 25 
 
 inpdriit geminum alterum in navem pater, 
 
 16. tanta the early editors, tantum mss. argumentum adest mss., 
 emended by Camerarius. argumentum om. and nostra adest B. 
 after others. 19. uti Camerarius, ut mss. 23. preserved only 
 in B, omitted in all other mss. 25. navim CD, navem B. 
 26. geminorum B. to avoid the hiatus. Perhaps geminum is 
 merely a gloss which superseded the original reading filium. 
 ■ — geminum item alterum Muller Pros. p. 490. — navem here all mss. 
 
 paucis verbis, sed copiose et 
 liberaliter, et multis verbis'. 
 This is evidently very different 
 from the promise made v. 6. 
 
 16. The pronunciation ar- 
 gtimentumst is not the ordinary 
 one in Plautus, but; may be 
 defended with several parallel 
 instances. — benignitas 'liberal- 
 ity ', a common sense. 
 
 18. For the disyllabic pro- 
 nunciation of ei compare argum. 
 2. 
 
 19. sua 'their own' mater 
 'nurse': mater aliquando pro 
 nutrice ponitur Nonius p. 423. 
 Compare Verg. Aen. vm 631, 
 and PI. True, v 1, 10 (accord- 
 ing to the vulgate edition). 
 
 20. internosse ' know with 
 the difference between',i.e. 'dis- 
 tinguish'. She did not know 
 the one from the other. 
 
 21. neque adeo 'nor even', 
 very common in Plautus. 
 
 22. By this reference the 
 speaker endeavours to impart 
 an air of authenticity to his 
 prologue ; compare also dicitur 
 v. 10. The syllables ut quid il 
 form a dactyl, the first syllable 
 of ille being treated as short; — 
 viderat is instead of vidit, the 
 perfect being used instead of 
 plnpf. by dint of necessity, in 
 order to gain a syllable. 
 
 23. ego illos is an anapaest. 
 
 24. The present sunt after 
 postquam should be explained 
 on the analogy of quom with a 
 present (v. 29) ; instances of 
 both constructions are given by 
 Holtze Synt. n p. 66. 
 
 25. Compare the expression 
 navis oneraria. 
 
 26. The hiatus after gemi- 
 num cannot be justified, as the 
 connexion between geminum and 
 alterum is too close to admit of 
 a strong pause. See crit. note. 
 
10 MENAECHMEI. [PROL. 27 — 40. 
 
 Tarentum avexit sdcum ad mercatlim simul: 
 ilium reliquit alteram apud matre'm domi. 
 Tarenti ludi f6rte erant, quom illuc venit: 
 
 30 mortales multi, ,ut ad iudos, convdnerant : 39 
 
 puer inter homines ibi aberravit &, /patre. 
 Epidamniensis quidam ibi mercator fait : 
 is puerum tollit avehitque Epidamnum eum. 
 pater ems autem p6stquam puerum pe"rdidit, .■ 
 
 35 animum despondit : eaque is aegritudine f I 35 
 paucls diebus p6st Tarenti em6rtuost. 
 postquam Suracusas de ea re rediit nuntius 
 ad avdm puerorum^ puerum surruptum alteram, 
 patr^mque pueri^Tarenti esse" em6r/tuom, 
 
 40 immutat nomen avos huic geminorw»i alteri. 40 
 
 31. ibi added by E., om. mss. 33. epidamnium mss., corrected 
 by O. Seyffert. dtque in Epidamnum dvehit R. 37. postqudm 
 domum autem de ed re rediit nUntius R., in order to avoid the 
 shortening in Syr&alsas, which has been justly defended by Brix. 
 39. pueri in itinere esse emortuom R., in order to avoid the long 
 quantity in Tdrenti. Miiller, Pros. p. 521, conjectures patremque 
 pueri esse ibi Tarenti emortuom. 40. gemino mss., emended by 
 
 28. We should read apu, damnos ante erat, Romani no- 
 
 thus making the word a pyr- men mutavere, quia velut in 
 
 rhich: see Introd. Aul. p. 34. damnum ituris omen id visum 
 
 30. ad ludos forms only one est. Compare also the pun in 
 
 word, metrically speaking, and our play, v. 263 sqq. 
 may be compared with the cor- 35. animum despondere ' to 
 
 responding pronunciation of despair ', an expression used by 
 
 molossic words in Plautus. — ut Plautus and Livy: see diet. 
 ad ludos, viz. convenire solent. 37. The shortening of the 
 
 33. ' Epidamnum Romani long a in Suracusas may be ex- 
 Dyrrhachium [the modern Du- plained on the general principle 
 razzo] mutato nomine appella- that — ■£ may be turned into 
 runt, mala nomina vitantes '. - - ■>■ by a rapid pronunciation. 
 Lambihvs. The change of the In the play itself we always find 
 name took place, when the the legitimate prosody, 
 city (which was originally a 39. The writer^f this pro- 
 colony of Corcyra, as is well logue seems to use Tarentum 
 known to the readers of Thu- with the first syllable long — 
 oydides) was colonized by the though it is short in all other 
 Romans ; see Pliny N. H. 111 23. places. See, however, crit. 
 Pomponius Mela (11 p. 46 Par- note. The modern Italian pro- 
 they) states: Dyrrhachium, Epi- nunciation is Tdranto. 
 
PBOL. 41 — 50.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 11 
 
 ■ ita ilium dilexit, qui subruptust, alteram; 
 illius nomen/ indit illi qui domist, 
 Menae'cbmo, idem quod alteri nome'n fuit; 
 ) et ipsus eodemst avos vocatus n6mine. 
 
 45 propte'itea illius n6men meinini facilius, 45 
 
 quia "ilium clamore vidi flagitarier. 
 ne "mox erretis, iam nunc praedic6 prius : 
 idemst ambobiis n6men geminis fratribus. 
 nunc in Epidamnum pe"dibus redeundumst mihi, 
 
 50 ut banc rem vobis dxamussim dfsputem. so 
 
 the present editor (comp. orit. note on v. 26). immutat gemino 
 nomen avos huic alteri B. against the mss. n. avos is huic g, a. 
 Miiller Nachtr. p. 85. 42. illi mss. ,'ille ei B: 43 — 46 are placed 
 by E. after v. 48. 43. fuit mss. , facit E. 51. Epidamnum mss. , 
 
 42. indere, .though not ex- 
 actly a Ciceronian word,is much 
 used in archaic and silver latin- 
 ity. See diet. Observe the con- 
 struction indit nomen Menaech- 
 mo 'he names him Menaeeh- 
 mus'. 
 
 44. eodem should be pro- 
 nounced in two syllables (cf. 
 eaque v. 35). In avos the final 
 s should be dropt, thus making 
 the word a pyrrhich. 
 
 46. Lambinus asks ' a qui- 
 bus flagitarier?' and adds 'a vo- 
 bis', evidently suggesting that 
 the performance to which this 
 prologue was prefixed, took 
 place by special request of the 
 public, who were desirous to see 
 the play once more upon the 
 boards. But Parens justly says 
 ' per praecones publicos procla- 
 mari': the praeco called out, if 
 any one knew of the boy 's where- 
 abouts, he was to restore him 
 to his parents. This was the 
 classic substitute for adver- 
 tising. Douza quotes the in- 
 stance of Eutychus Merc, in 4, 
 
 78 sq., and of Giton in Petro- 
 nius c. 97; in the latter place 
 we meet with the very same 
 expression as here, c. 92 : inve- 
 nts non minore clamoris indig- 
 natione Gitona flagitabat. 
 Brix adds Plutarch vita Alcib. 
 c. 3 : 7rats c3p £k ttjs olidas dir^dp'a 
 irpbs ArifiOKpaTTj two. tGv ipaffT&v' 
 fSovKofitvov 8' aitrbv diroKtjpvT- 
 reiv {proelamare) Apltppovos Ile- 
 PlkXtjs ouk etatrev. 
 
 47. mox ' afterwards ', during 
 the performance, iam nunc ' now 
 already' (very different from 
 nunciam). 
 
 49. pedibus ' ambiguum : nam 
 et pedes sunt quibus ambulamus 
 iterque facimus, et pedes sunt 
 quibus constat versus et car- 
 men'. Lambinvs. - Such frigid 
 jokes as this are^very much in 
 the style of these spurious pro- 
 logues. With the whole pas- 
 sage we should compare Poen. 
 prol. 79 — 82, which has many 
 points in common with it. 
 
 50. examussim is an adverb 
 confined to Plautus and Appu- 
 
12 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [PEOL. 51 — 61. 
 
 si quis quid vostrum Epidamni curari sibi P**** 
 velit; audacter imperato et dicito: ""* , 
 
 sed ita ut det, unde curari id possit sibi. ^^ 
 
 nam nisi qui argentum .de'derit, nugas ^gerit : 
 
 55 qui d^defrit, magis/ mai6res nugas egerit. h 
 
 verurn illuc redeo, unde £bii, atque uno adsto in loco. 
 " Epidamniensis file, ut dudum dixeram, 
 geminum ilium puerum qui surrupuit alteram, 
 ei liberorum, nisi divitiae, nil erat. 
 
 60 adoptat ilium puerum surrupticium 
 sibi filium eique ux6rem dotatam dedit, 
 
 60 
 
 emended by Pylades. 54. qui non argumentum mss., emended 
 by Beroaldus. nam nisi qui mss., emended by Pylades. nisi 
 quod qui dederit B., who then omits nugas. 57. giiem.mss., ut 
 
 leius; in Gellius I 4 the old 
 editions read examussim, but in 
 Hertz's critical text we find 
 atamussim. Charisius n p. 
 198 K says that Sisenna on 
 Plautus Amph. II 2, 213 (exa- 
 mussim est optuma) observed 
 pro examinato, and adds amus- 
 sis est tabula rubricata quae de- 
 mittitur examinandi operis gra- 
 tia an rectum opus surgat. — dis- 
 putare 'to make clear': from 
 the adj. putus ' clean', still used 
 in the phrase purus putus. 
 
 52. velit forms an iamb, 
 comp. Introd. Aul. p. 16. 
 
 53. He is also to defray the 
 expenses which may be caused 
 by this commission. 
 
 54. ' nugas agere ' tp_practise 
 foolish things', a common ex- 
 pression. He who does not 
 give, will lose his trouble, as 
 being bent upon a foolish 
 business ; but he who giveB, 
 will lose even more and be the 
 greater fool of the two. 'Dam- 
 num tantum apud Epidamnios 
 potest curari, et ad id mali 
 
 ominis • nomen venustissime 
 alluditur '. Geonov. Observe 
 the double comparative magis 
 maiores, which is very em- 
 phatic : see note on Aul. 419. 
 
 56. He will now not wander 
 from place to place, but stick to 
 only one. 
 
 57. Epidamniensis ille : ' nota 
 hunc rectum casum non habere 
 quo referatur. Sed haec negle- 
 gentia imitatur sermonem quo- 
 tidianum, quo maxime comoedia 
 utitur'. Lambinvs. dudum (ori- 
 ginally = diu dum) 'some time 
 since', is used indifferently of 
 long and short distances of 
 time, dixeram instead of dixi, 
 owing to metrical compulsion. 
 
 59. There is a strained witti- 
 cism in the expression, just as 
 if divitiae and liberi belonged 
 to the same category. This has 
 been justly pointed out by Lam- 
 binus. 
 
 61. uxor dotata ' a wife with 
 a good dowry'. He found this 
 excellent match for his son. 
 
PROL. 62—73.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 13 
 
 etimque heredem fdcit, quom ipse obiit diem, 
 nam rus ut ibat f6rte, ut multum pluerat, 
 ingre'ssus fluviuin rapidum ab urbe baud 16ngule, 
 
 65 rapidus) raptori ptieri I subduxit pedes <*i>^ n » m 
 i*j> apstraxitque hominem in mfeumam malam crucem. 
 ita illi divitiae evenerunt maxumae. 
 is illic habitat ge"minus surrupticius. v- 
 nunc ille geminus, qui Suracusis habet, 
 
 70 bodie in Epidamnum ve"niet cum serv6 suo 70 
 
 hunc quaeritatum geminum germanum suom. 
 haec urbs Epidamnus e'st, dum baec agitur f&bula: 
 quando'alia agetur, dliud fiet dppidum; 
 
 Miiller Pros. p. 338. 63. pluverat Bentley on Hor. Serm. i 5, 15. 
 
 64. ingressust Bergk with full stop at the end of the line. 
 
 65. pueri mss., Jluvius Bergk, pueri is B. 67. ita om. mss., added 
 by Pylades. illi divitiae ita B. 70. venit mss., emended by 
 
 62. 'He made him heir of 
 his fortune by dying'. This 
 should not be misunderstood, 
 as if he had instituted him his 
 heir on the day of his death. 
 
 63. ut ibat forte like the 
 Greek ws-4r6yx ave tropevo aevos. 
 But ut with the imperf. is not 
 very common. — For the perfect 
 plui comp. Varro de lingua lat. 
 rx 104 (p. 232 Miiller) : quidam 
 reprehendunt qundpluit et luit 
 dicamus in praeterito et prae- 
 senti tempore, cum analogiae sui 
 cuiusque temporis verba debeant 
 discriminare. falluntur ; nam 
 est ae putant aliter, quod in 
 praeteritis u dicimus *longum, 
 plv.it luit; in praesenti breve, 
 plait luit. The fact is that 
 there were two roots, plu- and 
 plouv-, compare pluvius, Plu- 
 viae and the verb perplovere 
 quoted by Festus p. 250, 29. 
 Hence the perfect plui or pluvi. 
 The root plov- or plouv- appears 
 also in plorare =ploverare. In 
 
 the same manner we have from 
 nuo the perf. nui, comp. adnuit 
 used by Ennius ap. Priscian. 
 x 12 p. 504 h. (In some editions 
 we read pluverat.) 
 
 64. longule occurs also Bud. 
 1 5, 8, and Ter. Haut. 239. haud 
 longule maybe translated 'not 
 sojreryjar'. 
 
 65. Observe the paronomasia 
 iu rapidus raptori. — In prose 
 we should have to say illi qui 
 rapuerat puerum (by once steal- 
 ing a boy, he did not become a 
 raptor for ever, as raptor de- 
 notes one who makes robbing 
 and stealing his business) ; but 
 in archaic Latin the nouns in 
 tor and sor are often used in 
 their original verbal sense, al- 
 most like a Greek participle of 
 the perfect. Here raptor =i)p- 
 iraicajs. 
 
 66. in maxumam malam cru- 
 cem, els ueylffrrjv dirdXeiav. 
 
 69. habet = habitat ; comp. 
 note on Aul. 5. 
 
14 MENAECHMEI. [PEOL. 74 — 76. 
 
 sictit familiae qu6que solent mutarier : 
 75 modo hie agitat leno, mddo adulescens, mddo senex, 75 
 pauper mendicus, r£x, parasitus, hariolus. « jf 
 
 Geppert. 75. modo ni cadit at leno B, emended by Grater, modo 
 lino hie agitat E. 76. Bothe was the first to observe that the 
 conclusion of this prologue is wanting. 
 
 74. familia denotes the agit, modo adulescentis, modo 
 troupe of actors, who were ge- senis etc. '. Lambihvs. agitat 
 nerally slaves or at best freed- leno means 'he acts as a pan- 
 men, conducted by the ' domi- der', i. e. he performs the part 
 nus gregis'. ' fuit familia his- of the pander. 
 
 trionum sicut et gladiatorum' . 76. hariolus is the proper 
 
 Pakevs. spelling (not ariohis), so also 
 
 75. 'Modo idem actor (we haruapex. See Vanicet, Ety- 
 should, therefore, take hie as mo x, Worterb. p. 57. 
 
 the pronoun) lenonis partes 
 
ACTVS I. 
 
 Penicvlvs. 
 
 luv&itus nomen' fdcit Penicul6 mihi 
 
 ideq quia mensam, quando edo, det^rgeo. 
 * * *-* * * * 
 
 homines captivos qui- catenis vinciuut, 
 80 et qui fugitivis s^rvis indurrf' c6mpedes, 
 
 nimis stulte faciunt mea, quidem sent^ntia. 5 
 
 nam hoc hdmini misejo si ad malum accedlt malum, 
 m'ai6r lubidost fdgdre et facere n^quiter. 
 
 78. 'post hunc versum dubium esse vix potest quin quaedam 
 interciderint' B. 82. nam mss. ; namque Camerarius, E. ; nam 
 
 Aci I. So. 1. 77. Peniculus 
 est spongia oblonga, caudae si- 
 milis, ad excutiendum pulverem, 
 quales sunt caudae vulpinae et 
 bubulae. Festvs. In Ter. Eun. 
 777 the word denotes a sponge, 
 and the double diminutive peni- 
 cillus occurs in the same sense 
 in PI. Eud. rv 3, 69. peniculus 
 is the diminutive oipenis, which 
 stands instead of pesnis; com- 
 pare Greek Trios and iraa-Qn. 
 
 78. detergere 'sweep clean'. 
 The ancients do not seem to 
 have used table-cloths, compare 
 Hor. Sat. 11 8, 10 sq., puer 
 alte ductus acernam Gausape 
 purpureo mensam pertersit. Lu- 
 cil. Sat. xxi (p. 75 ed. L. Muller) 
 purpureo tersit tunc latas gau- 
 sape memos. 
 
 79. Tiomines captivos, alxp-a- 
 \ibrovs, Sopva\drovs, comp. Oapt. 
 1 1, 32. 
 
 80. fugitivi servi, SpUirirai.. 
 
 81. nimis is often used by 
 the comic poets in the simple 
 sense of 'very'. — We should 
 drop the final s in nimis. 
 
 82. The' malum 'wi$h which 
 the poor fellow is already bur- 
 dened is his captivity, the ac- 
 cessory 'malum' consists in the 
 chains with which he is bound 
 by his hard master. Brix quotes 
 Bacch. in 3, 32 id quoi obti- 
 gerat, hoc etiam ad malum ar- 
 cessebatur malum. 
 
 83. maior lubido est = etiam 
 magis lubet ei 'he has a still 
 greater desire'.— facere nequiter 
 means to do such things as only 
 
1G 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 [I. 1. 8—15. 
 
 . nam se e"x catenis dximunt aliqu6 modo : 
 85 turn compediti aut faum lima prae'terunt 
 
 aut lapide. excutiunt clavom. nugae sunt eae. 10 
 
 quem tu £dservare re"cte, Tie aufugiat, voles, 
 
 esca £tque potidne vincirl decet : 
 
 apud mdnsam plenam tu hdmini rostrum d^liges. 
 90 dum tu illi, quod edit 6t quod potet, pradbeas , 
 
 suo djibitratu usque ad fatim cotidie, ' t ' 15 
 
 hoc Miiller Nachtr. p. 117. 85. turn mss., defended by Brix, dum 
 B. aut ova. mss., added by B. i (i.e. ei) Langen Philot xxxm 708 
 sq. 86. nugae B, but E. observes 'post u aliquid erasum in 
 B ', whence the archaic form naugae has been introduced into this 
 place by Brix. 89. tu om. mss., added by E. homini mss. , hominis 
 Nonius, B., homoni (without tu) Brix. 91. usque om. mss., added 
 by E. (Eitschl subsequently, N. PI. Exc. 1 72, preferred arbitratud 
 
 a 'nequam' does, conduct one- 
 self like a bad slave, do naughty 
 tricks. 
 
 _r84. eximunt 'takeout': the 
 sense of 'taking' appears in 
 most of the compounds of emere. 
 
 85. turn introduces the se- 
 cond class of slaves who were 
 said to be compedibus vincti, v. 
 80. — anus 'ring', orig. 'round', 
 whence the diminutive anulus, 
 commonly misspelt annulus. 
 The word occurs only here, but 
 is not at all dubious, as is 
 stated in Smith's Diet. 
 
 86. nugae sunt eae ' all those 
 are needless (foolish) precau- 
 tions'. 
 
 87. recte 'properly'. 
 
 88. The subject accusative 
 eum is easily supplied after 
 decet. 
 
 89. We should pronounce 
 dpu. — rostrum is applied to the 
 mouth of a human being, just 
 as we may say ' snout ' in a 
 somewhat slangy style. In 
 German, schnabel is jestingly 
 applied to a human mouth. 
 
 rostrum occurs in the same 
 sense as here in Petronius. — 
 The declension homonis, komuni, 
 homonem, which is assumed by 
 some Plautiue scholars, is not 
 at all warranted by the au- 
 thority of the mss. of Plautus, 
 and we therefore deem it very 
 rash to introduce it into the 
 text. 
 
 90. edit is the archaic subj., ■ 
 comp. Trin. 102. 
 
 91. suo arbitratu ' at his 
 own pleasure '.—ad fatim ' un- 
 til he has enough '. There was 
 an old noun/aft^ which formed 
 its accusative in' im, like sitis 
 sitim. The adverb usque is not, 
 indeed, in the mss., but has 
 been justly added in order to 
 fill up the hiatus which cannot 
 be admitted in the present place, 
 as there is no pause strong 
 enough to justify it. The very 
 same phrase usque ad fatim, 
 occurs PI. Poen. in 1, 1 31 tibi 
 bibas, edds de alieno qudntum 
 velis, usque dd fatim. (The ad- 
 verb affatim is of course iden- 
 
I. 1. 16—22.] 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 17 
 
 numquam hercle effugiet, tarn e"tsi capital fe'cerit: 
 facile £dservabis, dtiineo vinclo vincies. 
 ita istae"c nimis leSta vincla sunt e?,c£ria: 
 95 quam magis extendas, tan to adstringun^artius. 
 nam ego ad Menaechmumhunc w&nc eo ?'quo iam diu 20 
 sum iudicatus, 41tro eo, ut me vinciat. 
 nam illic homo hercle homines n6n alit, verum dducat 
 
 adfatim). ad fatim in two words B, affatim other mss. 92. with 
 E. according to Nonius p. 38. edepol te fugi & tiam & si B. 
 93. pronounced spurious by Vahlen, Eh. Mus. xvi 635. 95. in- 
 tendas Camerarius. 96. nunc om. mss., added by Muller Nachtr. 
 p. 81. Formerly hunc was changed by the editors (and E.) into 
 nunc. 98. hercle om. mss., added by B. homones (without hercle) 
 
 tical with this.) Plautus has 
 also usque ad saturitatem Eud. 
 in 4, 53, and ad satietatem usque 
 Cist. I 1, 72. — For cotldie see 
 our note on Aul. 23. The i in 
 the second syllable is always 
 long, as it is an ablatival suffix 
 (cotidie = quota die). 
 
 92. capital 'f acinus quodcapi- 
 tis poena luitur'. Festvs p. 48m. 
 
 93. In dura eo we have the 
 legitimate hiatus already no- 
 ticed on arg. 1. dum should 
 of course be taken in its original 
 temporal sense 'as long as'.. — 
 vinclo viricire is an instance of 
 the fig. etymol. 
 
 94. ita nimis lenta ' so very 
 tenacious '. After this we ought 
 to have a consecutive sentence 
 with ut {ita lenta, ut quo magis 
 extendas, eo artius adstringant) : 
 but as a rule the conversational 
 language is not fond of subor- 
 dination and prefers co-ordina- 
 tion of sentences in very many 
 places. — escarius seems to have 
 been coined by Plautus ; it be- 
 came, however, a pretty com- 
 mon word at a later period, 
 though in a slightly modified 
 sense. See the diet. 
 
 W. M. 
 
 95. We should expect, quan- 
 ta instead of quam. According 
 to Brix, quam magis instead of 
 quo (quanto) magis occurs in 
 only four other places in Plau- 
 tus : Poen. i 2, 135. Baceh. 
 v 1, 5. Asin. i 3, 6. Bacch. 
 iv 10, 1. The correlatives quam 
 magis — tarn magis occur in Lu- 
 cretius, in 700, where see Mun- 
 ro's note. 
 
 96. nam introduces the par- 
 ticular instance which is quoted 
 as a proof of the general maxim 
 previously explained. — quo 
 should be understood as the 
 correlative to eo to be supplied 
 in the following line in ultro eo. 
 We should not, therefore, ex- 
 plain quo of Menaechmus, as if 
 it were = ad quern. (The old 
 editions perversely read quoi.) 
 
 97. iudicatus in the sense 
 elsewhere expressed by adiudi- 
 catus. The parasite says that, 
 like an insolvent debtor, he 
 has long since been adjudged 
 to Menaechmus. Comp. Ter. 
 Phorm. 334 sq. — ut me vinciat, 
 V Ixv A" e & 0"Xa/cj). He means 
 of course ' vinclis escariis ' 
 
 98. The second syllable ol 
 
18 MENAECHMEI. [I. 1. 23—28. 
 
 recre&tque: nullus melius medicinam facit. 
 100 itast adulescens : ipsus escae maxumae, 
 
 Cerialis cenas d&t: ita mensas extruit, as 
 
 tantas struices crincinnat patin^rias : 
 standumst in lecto, si quid de summ6 petas. 
 sed mi intervallum iam h6s dies mult6s fuit: 
 
 Brix. 101. Cerialis Festus, B., Cerealis De, Certalis Sa. mensas 
 
 Cerealis, see the instances col- 
 lected by Corssen II 345. — 
 cena is the proper spelling, not 
 coena, as the word is from cesna, 
 comp.' silicernium (instead of 
 -cesnium). — extruit 'builds 
 up', viz. 'oibis, feroulis'. 
 
 102. Struices antiqui dice- 
 bant exstructiones omnium rerum 
 Festvs p. 310 m, who quotes 
 an instance of Livius Androni- 
 cus {qy,6 Castalia pir struices 
 s&xeas lapsu dccidit V. 37 Eibb.), 
 and Servius on Aen. iv 267 
 quotes from Naevius the expres- 
 sion struix malorum (trag. v. 60 
 Eibb. ) . The word is formed with 
 the same suffix as appears in 
 cervix cornix coturnix coxendix. 
 — concinnare originally means 
 'to render harmonious' (con + 
 can 'sing', whence con-cittdnus 
 ' sounding together' ); here it is 
 explained by Paulus Festi p. 38 
 by a pte componere . The pro- 
 nunciation c6ncvnndt is like 
 dtllados v. 30. — patinarius an 
 adj. coined by Flautus who has 
 it here and Asin. I 3, 28 ; comp. 
 escarius above v. 93. 
 
 103. de summo, from the top 
 of the dish. 
 
 104. Nearly the same line 
 ocours Bud. i 2, 49 nunc inter- 
 vallum iam hos dies multos fuit. 
 
 , The pronoun refers to the past 
 immediately preceding. The 
 parasite means to say that for 
 
 illic is long, when adverb, but 
 short, when adjectival pronoun. 
 ■ — For the difference between 
 alere and educare compare No- 
 nius 422, 10 alere est victu 
 temporali sustentare, educare 
 autem ad satietatem perpetuam 
 educere (where he also quotes 
 this passage). 
 
 99. recreare 'create anew'. 
 'Gives us, as 'twere, new life, 
 when dead with hunger' (Thorn- 
 ton). — medicinam facere seems 
 to have been a technical expres- 
 sion, cf. Cistell. i 1, 76. Just 
 as medicinam facere=mederi, 
 so in Greek $epairdav iroieiodai 
 — Bepaireveiv. 
 
 100. escae maxumae 'of lordly 
 appetite' (Thobnton), gen. of 
 quality.' Brix quotes Cic. ad 
 fam. ix 26 multi cibi hospes, 
 Gruter Hor. carm. I 36, 13 
 Damalis multi meri. 
 
 101. The Cerialia were cele- 
 brated in the Circus from the 
 12th to the 19th April. It was 
 a very popular festival; the 
 people were then habited in 
 white and used to feast plenti- 
 fully. Hence 'suppers for the 
 feast of Ceres' are plentiful and 
 splendid entertainments : ' op- 
 timaeet lautae acmultis ferculis 
 oneratae' (Parens). The spel- 
 ling Cerialis appears to be much 
 more frequent in the inscrip- 
 tions and. in the mss. than 
 
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 E 
 
 (A 
 0) 
 
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 £ 3 
 
MEN1 
 
 105 domf dmK invitus sum usq 
 nam ne"que edo neque emo, nil 
 sed qudniam cari, qui instruor 
 nunc ad eum inviso. sicT aperit 
 Menae'chmum eccuinipsum video : 
 
 19 
 
 is meis: 29 
 jirissumum 
 [it, U^»'V 
 
 foras. 
 
 >,»•■* 
 
 Menaechmvs I. Penicvl 
 
 110 Me. Ni mala, ni stulta sis, ni indomita 
 animi, 
 •J qu6d viro esse videas odio, 6dio tute habe 
 
 '"-'> 
 
 Festus, E., mensam mss. 105. domi Bb, domo Ba. domitus"] 
 summus que Ba, corrected by Bb. domi dum dominus sum usque] 
 domi dum invitus sum Madvig Adv. crit. 11 7. 107. id quoque iart 
 cari qui mss. set quoniam cari quom B. hesitatingly. The passage ^ 
 is not yet emended. 11Q. sis mss., defended by A. Spengel de vers. 
 cret. p. 21. siesB. 111. quod viro esse odio videas tute tibi odio 
 habeas mss. , which I have arranged so as to form a trochaic septe- 
 narius with hiatus in the caesura. qu6dviro odio videas esse, tute tibi 
 
 a considerable number of days 
 he has been left without an in- 
 vitation. 
 
 105. The reading of the mss. 
 domitus sum might be defended 
 by considering domitus as a 
 comic formation (not found 
 elsewhere) in the sense of ' con- 
 fined to my home' or 'domesti- 
 cated' (Brix quotes the similar 
 formations ruri rurant homines 
 Capt. 82, ne dentes dentiant 
 Mil. gl. I 1, 34, in cillumbari 
 collum Bud. m 6, 50) : but in- 
 dependently of the quantity of 
 domitus (instead of which we 
 should rather expect ddmitus), 
 we cannot but object to the 
 present sum instead of fui. We 
 have, therefore, adopted -Mad- 
 vig's ingenious emendation of 
 this passage.— cari mei 'my 
 dear ones', an ambiguous ex- 
 pression, by which he might 
 denote his family, though he 
 really means the dear food he 
 
 eats at home. Compare the 
 following line. 
 
 107. instrui is used of the 
 array of dishes upon a well- 
 served .table, and of the array 
 of soldiers in a line of battle. 
 Compare the very ludicrous pas- 
 sage in the Captivi I 2, 49 sqq. , 
 in which the parasite Ergasilus 
 compares the various dishes of 
 a good dinner with the different 
 corps of an army. (The present 
 line has not yet been satisfac- 
 torily emended; see the crit. 
 note.)— deserunt 'they desert', 
 run away, according to the 
 simile indicated in instruontur. 
 In Greek this would be iraga-l 
 T&rreirdcu and Xeforetp rr/v rd^iv. I 
 
 Act 1. Bo. ii. lloyMenaech- 
 mus addresses these compli- 
 mentary observations to his 
 wife who had followed him to 
 the door in order to watch where 
 he was going. 
 
 2—2 
 
prae'terhac si 
 i&xis, fax6 
 
 nam 
 me" ret 
 
 115 
 V q 
 
 3—10. 
 
 _ rem agam, quid negoti geram, 
 feram, quid foras^dSgeram^ 
 fomum duxi: ita omne'm mihi I 
 .,._ eloquist, quicquid egi atque ago. 
 esro te habui delicatam. nuncadeo,'ut fac- 
 i, dicam. 10 
 
 JRjoeas item B., taking item from G. Hermann. 114a and B are 
 treated by B. as one trochaic line. He inserts ego after foras. 116. 
 /oris legerim B -with the correction egerim, accepted by all editors 
 (also B.) except Brix. egeram (which is not a Plautine word) M. 
 Haupt. degeram Schwabe Jahr. f . Phil. 1872 p. 407, Brix. 119. ego 
 rejected by E., defended by Miiller Nachtr. p. 65 sq. and Brix. 
 120a and b are treated by E. as one line. 123. nequiquam E. who 
 
 112. faxis=feceris (i.e. ori- 
 ginally fecesis). — faxo is often 
 used in Plautus in the sense of 
 'I warrant you, I promise you'. 
 — vidua ' etiam dicitur ea mulier 
 cum qua vir f acit divortium seu 
 discidium, non solum ea cuius 
 vir mortuus est'. Lambinvs. 
 In Ter. Phorm. 913, the young 
 wife who is to be divorced from 
 her husband is styled vidua. 
 In fact, the word meant nothing 
 but 'single, alone', i.e. with- 
 out a man or husband; hence 
 Plautus applies it even to 
 ' meretrices ' without lovers, 
 Cist. 1 1, 46. — viso 'go and see'. 
 
 113. In foras the second 
 syllable is shortened : see In- 
 trod. Aul. p. 38. 
 
 116. The hiatus in qu6 ego 
 is legitimate: Introd. to Aul. 
 p. 68. 
 
 116. The verb degerere is 
 more than once used of clan- 
 destinely carrying some present 
 
 to a mistress. So also deferre 
 v. 133. 
 
 117. The portitorei were en- 
 titled to examine all merchan- 
 dise, compare Trin. 794; 'hoc 
 eo dicit Menaechmus quod haec 
 mulier virum egredientem do- 
 mo et redeuntem ita curiose 
 observet et excutiat, quod facere 
 Solent portitores, ut portitoria 
 exigant '. Lamb. 
 
 119. In the first foot of this 
 line, the syllables nlmi £gS make 
 a proceleusmatic. — delicatus 'a 
 darling' (comp. puer delicatus 
 TroiSoca, Most, iv 2, 32), the 
 word being connected with deli- 
 ciae. Menaechmus means 'I 
 have treated you too much as a 
 darling', 'I have spoiled you'. 
 (The explanation of Festus, 
 delicatus = (diis) dedicatus is 
 nonsense.) — The omission of 
 sum in the so-called ' periphras- 
 tic ' conjugation is rather rare. 
 
I. 2. 11—19.] MENAECHME1, 21 
 
 120 quando dgo tibi ancillas, penum, 
 
 lanam, aurum, vestem, purpuram 
 bene pradbeo nee quicquam eges, 
 * maid cavebis, si sapis : 
 
 virum <5bservare defines. » 
 
 &tque adeo, ne me" nequiquam serves, ob earn in- 
 
 dustriam i ' , 
 
 hddie ducam sc6rtum atque ad cenam' aliquojcon- 
 djcam foras. 15 
 
 125 Pe. illic homo se ux6ri simulat male loqui, loquitur 
 mihi : 
 nam si ' foris cenat,/ profecto7me, haud uxorem, ul- 
 ciscitur. *-'- 
 
 * Me. euax, iurgio he'rele tandem uxdrem abegi ab 
 ianua. 
 ubi sunt amatords mariti ? d6na quid cessant mihi 
 
 subsequently changed his views and preferred nequicquam with Ba. 
 So also Brix. 124. ad cenam atque aliquo mss., emended by 
 Paumier. 127. hfrcle uxorem, tandem B., but see also his N. PI. 
 Exc. 1 p. 67. 129. ubi amatores sunt B. after Camerarius. The 
 
 121. lana woollen materials, crit. note on Trin. 440. — servare 
 and purpura purple-coloured = observare in the preceding 
 stuffs for dresses (which were line, 'to watch'. — ob earn indus- 
 always made up in the house triam : ' propter id studium 
 itself, by the lady and her quod adhibuisti et adhibes iu 
 slaves), aurum jewellery, vestis me observando' Lamb. Comp. 
 (sc. stragula) covers for beds below, v. 791. 
 
 and couches etc. — bene = benigne 124. condicere foras ' est ul- 
 
 'liberally'. — quicquam is accus. tro se offerentium ad cenam' 
 
 'in no respect do you want for (Pareus). Menaechmus intends 
 
 anything'. to invite himself somewhere, 
 
 122. malo cavere ' to beware and subsequently fixes upon 
 of evil consequences '. Erotium as the one at whose 
 
 123. atque adeo ' and in- house his supper is to take place, 
 deed'; see note on v. 11 above. 126. We should pronounce 
 — nequiquam ' for nothing' ; the fori, thus reducing the word to 
 qui represents an ablative. The a pyrrhich. 
 
 spelling nequioquam owes its 128 sqq. The iambic metre 
 
 origin to an erroneous deriva- is descriptive of the rejoicing of 
 
 tion and should not be misin- Menaechmus who now leaves 
 
 terpreted as a trace of an archaic his house and proceeds trium- 
 
 ablative ending in d. See my phantly to the front of the 
 
22 MENAECHMEI. [I. 2. 20—27. 
 
 v^ confe"rre omnes congratiilantes, c^uf pugnavi f<5rtitor ? 
 130 [hanc modo uxori fntus jpallam surrupui : ad scor- 
 tum fero.J , _ \ 21 
 
 sic huic debet dari facete y^rba , cuatodi ,catae. 
 hoc facinus pulcrumst, hoc probumst, hoc lepidumst, 
 hoc factumst fabre : . , 
 
 Y me6 roalo a mala dbstuli hoc : ad amicam defer^tur. 
 •avo^ti praedam ab hdstibus nostrum salute soqum. 23 
 135 Pe. helis adulescens, dcquain istac parsmest praenii 
 mihi ? 
 Me. peni, in insidias deveni. Pe. imtno in prae- 
 sidium. n6 time. 
 
 reading of the mss. has been maintained by Brix. 129. congra- 
 tantes E. who considers this a trochaic septenarius like the preced- 
 ing line. 130. has been justly bracketed by Brix. 131. huic 
 Colvius, hoc mss. 133. meo qu6d malo B., but quod is not in the 
 mss. abstuli, hoe B. I follow Brix. damnum mss. (E.), dominam 
 Dissaldeus more in the style of Ovid than of Plautus, amicam Brix. 
 134. advorti B , averti the other mss. 135. praemi mihi Gulielmius, 
 
 stage. — amator ' one who is al- Stich. rv 1, 64. PI. has also the 
 
 ways in love'; Lambinus justly expression fabrefacere fallaciam 
 
 explains ' amator umat ex ha- Cas. v 1, 8. 
 
 bitn, amans ex perturbatione 133. meo malo=meo damno 
 
 (sudden passion), amicus amat or detrimcnto, 'to myown loss.'. 
 
 animum, amator corpus '. 134. salute 'to the welfare'. 
 
 130. This line has no busi- One might feel tempted to con- 
 ness here, as the 'palla' cannot sider salute in this phrase as a 
 be mentioned before v. 133. It corrupt dative, instead of salu- 
 is, moreover, impossible to in- tei. If it were an actual abla- 
 terrupt the continuity of iambic tive, we should rather expect 
 lines by a single trochaic line. cum salute. Fareus (Lex. Plaut. 
 
 131. sic, as I have done. — 413) quotes the same use of 
 verba dare is a common phrase salute from Bacch. iv 9, 147 
 
 ^denoting 'to.£h§al,_deeeiye'. — and Eud. iv 2, 5, to which Brix 
 
 catus means originally 'sharp', adds Merc, iv 5, 9, in which 
 
 hence the names Cato, Catius, passage we read salute maxuma, 
 
 Catullus, and Gatilina. which shows that Plautus took 
 
 132. lepidus is a favourite salute as an abl. 
 
 word with the comic poets, and 135. istac, viz, praeda. 
 
 ^may be rendered ijdli'- See 136. The expression in in- 
 
 my note on Aul. $3^fabre= sidias devenire is chosen on 
 
 ajfabre 'in a workmanlike man- account of Menaechmus' pre* 
 
 cer', comp. also Poen. in 1, 74. vious description of his trims* 
 
I. 2. 28 — 34.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 23 
 
 Me. quis homost ? Pe. ego sum. Me. o mea com- 
 
 moditas, 6 mea opportunitas, 
 salve. Pe. salve. Me. quid agis ? Pe. teneo dex- 
 
 tera genium meum. 
 Me. non potuisti magis per tempus mi advenire 
 
 quam £dvenis. 30 
 
 . 140 Pe. ita ego soleo : c6mmoditatis 6mnis articulos ~- 
 
 scio. 
 Me. vin tu facinus luculentum inspicere ? Pe. quis 
 
 id coxit coquos ? ^ 
 
 ■ iam sciam, si quid titubatumst, ubi reliquiag videro. j 
 Me. die mi, en umquam tu vidisti tabulam pictam-^ 
 
 in pariete, 
 
 pre mihi the mss. 141. quis mss. , qui E. after Bothe. 142. rSli- 
 quias ubi E. after Bothe. 143. numqua B, nuqua G, ~num quam E., 
 
 phant return from a conflict 
 with an enemy. — The pun in- 
 volved in insidiae and praesi- 
 diumis easily understood,though 
 difficult to imitate in English. 
 
 138. quid agis means both 
 'what are you doing' and 'how 
 do you do '. Lamb, aptly 
 quotes the parallel instance in 
 the Mostellaria in 2, 30 quid 
 agis t Hominem optumum teneo. 
 — genius is an appellation al- 
 most equivalent to our 'good 
 angel'; the one who keeps me 
 alive and protects me every- 
 where. Parasites commonly con- 
 fer this name upon their patrons, 
 cf. Cure, ii 3, 22. Capt. rv 2, 99 
 (Parous, Lex. Plaut. 187). 
 
 139. per tempus advenire = 
 opportune ' to come in the nick 
 of time'. True. I 2, 84. 
 
 140. commoditas 'fitness of 
 time' = opportunitas, evicaipta. ar- 
 ticulus denotes a small particle, 
 a 'joint' of time (if we may 
 
 • 
 
 venture to say so), comp. articu- 
 lus temporis Epid. in 4, 55. — 
 Thornton translates ' I know to 
 hit each p™'"t » nJ " ; " v " f + ; ™"' 
 
 141. vin=visne. — inspicere 
 is a term of the kitchen, com- 
 pare inspicere in patinas Ter. 
 Ad. 428. Menaecnmus means , 
 ' inspect some splendid piece of . / 
 work ' (the robe he n'aJT'sTdlen * » 
 from his wife); the parasite 
 takes facinus luculentum of a 
 piece of culinary art. 
 
 142. iam ' at once '. — si quid 
 titubatumst, if anything has 
 been done amiss in it. The 
 parasite professes to be a great 
 connoisseur and a perfect judge 
 of all culinary productions.— 
 reliquiae (the 'beaux restes' of 
 a feast) occurs also below, v. 
 462; cf. also Stich. m 2, 40. 
 
 ■ 143. For en umquam the 
 student is referred to my note 
 on Trin. 589. — in pariete: 'al 
 fresco'. 
 
24 MENAECHMEI. [I. 2. 35 — 40. 
 
 ubi aquila Catamitum raperet, aut ubi Venus Ad6- 
 
 ueum ? 33 
 
 145 Pe. saepe.' sed quid istae* picturae ad me £ttinent ? 
 
 Me. age me £spice. 
 e"cquid adsimuld similiter? Pe. qui istic ornatus 
 
 tuost ? 
 Me. die hominem lepidissumum esse mdd Pe. ubi 
 
 essuri sumus ? 
 Me. die mode-' hoe quod dgo te iubeo. Pe. dico : 
 
 homo lepidissume. 
 Me. e*cquid audes de* tuo istuc £ddere ? Pe. atque 
 
 hilarissume. ' « 
 
 en umquam Brix. 144. catamei turn B originally, subsequently 
 changed into catamitum. As E. says ' scriptum fuit antiquitus 
 catameitvm' (which would be almost certain even without ms. 
 evidence) Brix prints catameitum in his school-edition. 146. 
 'mirer ni adsimiliter scripserit Plautus' B. 147. vie mas., med 
 (though with a transposition, not adopted here) Fleckeisen. esse < 
 me. Pe. Ubi nos essuri sumus B., but nos is not in the mss. See 
 also B.'s N. PI. Exc. i p. 50. me and ubi hodie Miiller Pros. p. 
 
 144. Catamitm is the arch- parte Ganymedem et Adonim 
 aic Latin and Etruscan form of forma aut ornatu ref ero? ' Lamb. 
 the Greek Taw^Sr);, see our The reference is of course to 
 crit. note on Trin. 948. Cicero the somewhat womanish style of 
 Phil, ii 31, 77 uses catamitus as beauty of these two characters, 
 a general term for an effeminate 147. lepidissumus is anappel- 
 person. The subject' of Gany- lation bestowed by the parasite 
 mede'srapebyJove'seaglewould only on receiving an invitation 
 seem to have been a favourite for dinner. — essum is a not un- 
 with ancient artists, but a re- common form of the supine in 
 presentation of the rape of the mss. of Plautus; it owes its 
 Adonis by Venus has not yet origin to its derivation from ed- 
 been discovered, though one sum or ed-tum. It is, however, 
 would say that the subject itself not to be overlooked that Plautus 
 was attractive enough. Adoneus himself oould only spell esum, 
 (instead of "ASavis) is one of the as the doubling of consonants 
 archaic formations which sub- was not usual in his period, 
 sequently again gave way to the 149. audere originally = ab- 
 original Greek forms. dere (from avidus = avidum esse 
 
 145. istae ' those mentioned or simply avere) 'have a mind 
 by you'. , toi; see n. on Trih."254'. In 
 
 146. ecquid adsimulo simili- the old editions, it is commonly 
 ter 'id est, nonne aliqua ex stated that audere in these 
 
I. 2. 41 — 43.] MENAECHMEI. 25 
 
 150 Me. p&ge. Pe. uon pergo beVcle vero, nisi scio qua 
 
 gratia, 
 litigium tibist cum uxore : eo mi abs te caveo 
 
 cautius. 
 Me. ****** 
 
 155 clam uxorem| ubi septilcrum babeamus, bunc com- 
 buramus diem. 
 
 635. 150. vero om. mss., added by B. — pirge, perge. Pe. ndn 
 pergo hercle, nisi sc. Sohwabe Jahr.f . Phil. 1872, p. 407. But the 
 iteration of perge would seem to indicate too much impatience on 
 the part of Menaechmus. 151. eo E, o or oh the mss. 155. atque 
 hunc coviburamis diem Bb. B. considers this line as the combined 
 fragments of two, which he prints in this fashion — 
 
 * * * clam uxoremst ubi sepulcrum habeTnmus, 
 
 * * * * atque hunc comburamtis diem. 
 
 In the first line he would insert mdgis sapis nunc, nam ; in the 
 
 phrases is merely a synonym of 
 velle, but the reason of this 
 employment of the verb is not 
 given. Comp.also True, rv 3,44, 
 and in the present play v. 697. 
 
 150. The parasite refuses to 
 pay Menaechmus any further 
 compliments before knowing 
 the reason for which he is ex- 
 pected to be polite. 
 
 151. 'Iubet Menaechmus sup- 
 parasitari sibi parasitum : at 
 ille renuit blandiri gratis, nisi 
 sciat qua mercede: atque ob 
 earn causam, inquit, diligentius 
 abs te mihi caveo et praescire 
 certo praemium cupio, quia 
 litigium tibi audivi cum uxore 
 esse, ut hand facile me domum 
 sis ad cenam vocaturus'. Aci- 
 DiLrvs, Divinationes in Plau- 
 tum p. 253. — caute cavere is one 
 of those numerous phrases in 
 which a verb is emphasized by 
 an adverb of the same root, 
 compare proper e properare, cur- 
 sim currere, memoriter memi- 
 nisse and others in Plautus. 
 
 152. The gap probably con- 
 tained a thought somewhat like 
 the following: ne time: si ddmi 
 negatur, tdmen nobis praestist 
 locus. 
 
 155. sepulcrum habere should 
 be understood of holding the 
 burial feast, which used to take 
 place after the body had been 
 burnt. Hence also the expres- 
 sion comburere diem, as if the 
 day were dead — his .candles 
 burnt out. (Lamb, compares 
 Horace's condere diem carm. rv 
 5, 29.) The principal meal, the 
 cena, was taken in the evening. 
 The simile is continued in the 
 following lines. 
 
 155. orare was anciently 
 used in the simple sense of di- 
 cere. Hence aequom oras means 
 'you make a just observation'. 
 —quam mox ' how soon ', i. e. 
 shall I not very soon light the 
 funeral pyre? Compare Livy 
 in 37, 5. Festus, p. 261, says 
 ' quam mox significat cito '. 
 
26 MENAECHMEI. [L 2. 44—51. 
 
 . Pe. £ge sane igitur, quando aequom oras, quam mox 
 
 incencUS rogum ? 
 dies quidem iam ad umbilicum est dimidiatus in<5r- 
 
 tuos. « 
 
 Me. t6 morare, mihi quom obloquere. Pe. 6culum 
 
 ecfodito peY solum 
 mihi, Menaechme, si ullum verbum faxo, nisi quod 
 
 iusseris. 
 Me. cdncede . hue a fdribus. Pe. fiat. Me. dtiam 
 
 concede hue. Pe. licet. 
 Me. dtiam nunc concede audacter &b leonin6 cavo. 
 160 Pe. eu, edepol ne tu, ut ego opinor, dsses agitator 
 
 probus. so 
 
 Me. quidum? Pe. ne te ux6r sequatur, re"spectas 
 
 ide"ntidem. 
 
 second ubi pollucedmus lepide. 156. incondo B. 157. dimidiatus 
 nwrtuost B. from Gellius who quotes this line m 14. 158. Ne B, 
 te CD. quin B, quam CD, quom FZ. This line and the follow- 
 ing are placed by B. after v. 151. persolwm considered corrupt by 
 E., semorum, Bjicheler Eh. Mus. xn 133. See also the reviewer in 
 the Lit. Centralbl. 1867, p. 215, A. Spengel Phil, xxvn 340, and 
 
 157. dimidiatus is common mus' own house. — etiam ' still 
 instead of dimidius. more '. — licet is a common 
 
 158. c&Jojuere=loquendoob- phrase in assenting to a request : 
 strepis. Lamb. — per solum is see our notes on Trin. 372 and 
 very strange, though it admits on Aul. 326. 
 
 of an explanation. Supposing 159. concede audacter =aude 
 
 this reading to be correct, the (v. 149) concedere. — leonino cava 
 
 parasite says 'you may knock 'the den of the lioness', viz. 
 
 out my eye so that it shall come hiB wife. 
 
 out by the sole of my foot'. 160 sq. 'Agitator probus 
 
 Comp. Poen. in 1, 68 at edepol (equorum) in ludis circensibus 
 
 tibi rvos in lumbos linguam atque identidem respicit eos qui pone 
 
 oculos in solum. Cas. II 6, 39 currant. Menaechmus identi- 
 
 at tu ut oculos emungare ex ca- dem respiciebat seu respecta- 
 
 pite per nasum tuos. See, how- bat timens ne ab uxore conBpi- 
 
 ever, crit. note. We are almost ceretur pallam uxoris indutus'. 
 
 inchned to adopt Madvig's cor- Lamb. This note will also serve 
 
 rection. to explain ne in v. 161. 
 158. aforibus, of Menacch- 
 
I. 2. 52 — 60.] MENAECHMEI. 27 
 
 Me. se"d quid ais ? Pe. egone ? id enim quod tu 
 
 vis, id aio atque id nego. 
 Me. e"cquid tu de oddre possis, si quid forte olfe'ceris, 
 facere coniecturam ? Pe. captum si siet collegium, 
 
 165 cuo , . s . . ata 
 
 Me. age dum, odorare hanc quam ego habeo pallam : 
 
 qiiid v olet? apstines? 55 
 
 Pe. sumnium oportet <51factara ve*stimentum muliebre : | 
 nam ex istoc loc6 spurcatur ndsum odore inlutili. 
 Me. 61facta igitur hinc, Penicule : ut lepide fastidis. 
 
 Pe. olet. 
 170 Me. quid igitur? quid ole"t? responde. Pe. furtum, 
 
 scortum, prandium. 
 
 ■f iT")] ■SF ^l(e . ¥' 3F 7F 
 
 Me. elocutu's » * * * * 
 
 nunc ad amicam deTeretur hanc meretricem Ero- 
 tium. 60 
 
 Muller Pros. p. 579. pessulo Madvig Adv. crit. 11 7. 162. ais 
 Pylades, agis mss. 164. sit collegium mss., emended by Botlie. 
 165. only in the palimpsest, but illegible. 168. inlucido mss., 
 inlutibili Nonius, inlutili E. 169. Di facta B, olfacta .F and 
 early editors, lepide. ut mss., corrected by B. olet 0. Seyffert 
 
 162. The words sed quid ais tanta arte praebeant tibi qudnta 
 
 are frequently used to introduce ego. 
 
 a new subject which had near- 166. abstines ' subintellege, 
 
 ly escaped the attention of the manum, vel abstines summam 
 
 speakers. See our note on Trin. partem pallae tangere:' Lame. 
 193. — enim'to be sure' = e»im- 168. ex istoc loco, from the 
 
 vera, very common in the comic place which you offer to my 
 
 writers. Comp. below 251. nostrils, i.e. 'infima pars vesti- 
 
 164. capere was a technical menti' nasum is always used 
 
 term of the augurs choosing a as a neuter in Plautus. Comp. 
 
 place for their observations ('est e.g. Cure. 1 2, 17 sagax nasum 
 
 verbum augurum, dum locum habet. — spurcare occurs in Plau- 
 
 eligebant ad effandos fines tus only here. — illutilis 'not to 
 
 templorum' Pareus, Lex. PI. be washed out', only here. 
 63). 169. hinc, from this place 
 
 165. The original sense of which I show you.— ut lepide 
 this line is of course irrecover- fastidis ' in what a jolly manner 
 ably lost, but something to this you show your disgust', 
 purpose may have been con- 173. hanc, i.e. who lives 
 tained in it : cdniecturam ndn close by. 
 
28 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 [I. 2. 61—66. 
 
 mini, tibi atque illi_iubebo iam £dparari prandium : 
 175 inde usque ad^dmrnam stellam. cr^stinam potabi- 
 
 mus. ii..'-." X 
 
 Pe. eu, expedite fabulatu's. iam ferio foris t Me. 
 
 feri, 
 vel mane>)etiam. Pe. mille passum c6mmoratu's 
 
 canthafuml 
 Me. placide pulta. Pe. me"tuis credo, ne" fores Sa- 
 
 miae* sient. 65 
 
 180 Me. mane mane, obsecro he'rcle : eapse eccam exit. 
 
 a, solem vide, 
 
 Phil, xxvii 452, decet mss., licet Acidalins, E. 171. E. fancied he 
 could decipher tibi fuat in the palimpsest, in which alone this line 
 and the following have been preserved. 176. ferio foris E. with A, 
 fores ferio the other mss. and so Brix. 180. eapse Acidalins, ab se 
 mss. See E.'s N. PI. Exc. i p. 52. ecca mss. , emended by Bothe. 
 
 175. diurna 8tella=tj>taiT<p6- 
 pos or lueifer,' the morning star'. 
 Hesperus is called Nocturnus 
 Amph. 1 1, 116. 
 
 176. expedite, literally 'ex- 
 peditiously', is here used in the 
 sense of 'clearly' or 'to the 
 point'.— iam ferio 'am I now 
 to knock at the door?' In ques- 
 tions of this kind, Plautus em- 
 ploys both the indicative and 
 the subjunctive. See our note 
 on Trin. 1062. 
 
 177. vel mane etiam 'or 
 rather wait a bit '. — mille is al- 
 ways treated as a subst. by 
 Plautus, never as an adjective 
 (see note on Trin. 425). pas- 
 sum=passuum occurs also inLu- 
 cilius, Martial, Cato, and Livy, 
 comp. also currum=curruum 
 Verg. Aen. vi 653 and similar 
 forms.- Kiihner, Ausfiihrl. 
 Gramm. der lat. Spr. i p. 246. — 
 Thornton translates 'jlie-eup 
 
 jwas_4nst- at -hand4_!tia_now a 
 thousand paces off'. Acidalins 
 
 (Divin. p. 253) says very pro- 
 perly, 'Indicant haec parasiti 
 festinationem et impatientiam 
 morae : qui canthario et potati- 
 oni destinatae imminens aegre 
 fert cohibere se quin statim 
 fores pulset '. 
 
 178. ' Maior pars hominum 
 terrenis utittir vasis. Samia 
 etiamnunc in esculentis laudan- 
 tur'. Pliny N. H. xxxv 46, 160. 
 The crockery of Samos is re- 
 peatedly mentioned in Plautus, 
 comp. Capt. ii 2, 41. Baooh. 
 ii 2, 24. Stich. v 4, 12. Samiae 
 testae Tib. n 3, 47. From the 
 anecdote related by Cicero pro 
 Mur. 36, 75 it appears that 
 Samia vasa were the common 
 crockery in Roman houses ; see 
 also Auct. ad Her. iv § 64. The 
 joke itself is aptly explained by 
 Lambinus ' metuis, credo, ne 
 fores sint fictiles et ita fragiles 
 ut vasa Samia '. 
 
 180. mdne mane is the regu- 
 lar pronunciation in Plautus, 
 
I. 2. 67—3. 7.] S1ENAECHMEI. rt/~r 29 
 
 satin ut occaecatiist prae huius cdrporis cand6ribus? 
 
 Eeotitm. Penicvlvs. Menaechmvs I. 
 
 V Ee. anime mi, Menaecbme, salve. Pe. quid ego? 
 
 Ee. extra numerum 6s mihi. .j I 3. 
 
 PE.ddem istuc aiiis adscriptivis fieri adlegione'm 
 
 solet. 
 
 185 Me. ego isti ac mihi hodie &dparari Mssim apud te 
 
 proelium. ^ . 
 
 Er. £.6die id Set. Me. in. eo uterque proelio pota- 
 
 bimus. 
 liter,, ibi meli<5r bellator e'rit inventus ' cantharo, s 
 tuos est : legito ac itidicato, cumutf o tu banc noctem 
 ' sies. 
 
 lit ego uxorem, mea voluptas, tibi te aspicio, odi 
 male. 
 
 video toss., emended by Aoidalius. 181. occecatus mss., emended 
 by Pylades. 182. mei Ba (and bo Brix), mi Bb, E. After v. 182, 
 E. assumes a gap. 184. fieri ad legionem Varro de 1. 1. vn 56 p. 
 540 Sp. and from him E., ad legionem fieri msa. 185. isti ac 
 Aoidalius, istic mss. iussi mss., emended by Aoidalius. ego istic 
 mi h6died E. N. PI. Exc. i p. 91. 186. flet mss., fiet Gruter. 
 
 just as Unetene. — Plautus uses ways found in the army. Of 
 
 eapse eopse eumpse eampse ; see adscriptivus Varro de 1. 1. vn 
 
 Corssen ii 847. — soZem is an in- § SSsay&adscriptivi dictiqui 
 
 stance of the prolepsis or anti- olim adscribebantur inermes, ar- 
 
 cipation of the subject of a matis militibus qui succederent, 
 
 dependent clause. si quis eorwm deperisset. — istuc 
 
 181. satin ut=satisne (est) 'your saying' might juBt as well 
 
 ut 'is it not enough how' the apply to tbe supernumeraries of 
 
 sun has grown dark in com- the army ; though they are not 
 
 parison with the brightness of exactly necessary, still they are 
 
 her beauty! Brix quotes an there. 
 
 analogous instance of satin ut 185. isti, parasito. — iussim 
 
 after vide from Stich. i 3, 113 (=iusserim) 'I should like to 
 
 sq. order'. — proelium is said of the 
 
 Act I. Sc. in. 182. extra nu- supper, with the same simile 
 
 merum 'outside the number' of as was used before, v. 107. 
 
 my friends. 187. bellator cantharo ' a 
 
 184. The parasite jestingly warrior at the bowl'. (Thobn- 
 
 considers himself as a super- ton.) 
 numerary, such as were al- 
 
30 MENAECHMEI. [I. 3. 8 — 12. 
 
 190 Er. interim nequis quin eius aliquid indutus sies. 
 quid hoc est ? Me. induviae" tuae atque uxoris exu- 
 viae", rosa. 
 Er. superas facile, ut superior sis mihi quam quis- 
 quam qui impetrant. 10 
 
 Pe. meretrix tantispeV blanditur, dum illud quod 
 rapist videt : 
 195 nam si amabas, iam oportebat nasum abreptum m6r- 
 dicus. 
 
 pro ilio mss., praelio (so) Scaliger. 188. Tuest legio adiudicato 
 msa., emended by Vahlen Rh. Mus. xvi 631. enm leges, tu iudicato 
 R. hesitatingly; he subsequently adopted Yahlen's correction, 
 though he adds that it does not appear to he altogether satis- 
 factory: nor is Brix entirely convinced of its absolute truth. 
 Perhaps we may propose tudmst eligere ac indicate.- — tu om. mss., 
 originally added by R., who subsequently adopted Fleckeisen's 
 conj. utrone, and finally proposed utrod (N. PI. Exc. I p. 64). 
 190. sies Pylades, sis mss. After v. 194 R. fancied he could discover 
 in the A faint traces of two lines instead of the one read in the 
 other mss. He, therefore, assumed a gap after v. 194. But Geppert 
 
 190. interim 'meanwhile', used by Brotium, but we should 
 i. e. all the time you are speak- also assume some endearing 
 ing against your wife, you show gesture on her part while pro- 
 your fondness for her by wearing nouncing the preceding line. — 
 
 some article of her wardrobe quod rapiat 'which she would 
 
 nequis quin is like non potes like to seize'. 
 
 quin. 195. amabas is said with a 
 
 191. The pun in induviae certain emphasis: 'if you really 
 and exuviae is easily under- loved him'. Erotium's kisses 
 stood, though impossible to re- and endearments are not of the 
 produce in English. (In Ger- genuine kind ; they lack the 
 man we might say: 'einauszug real fire of love, which would 
 meiner frau, fur dich ein an- fain devour the beloved object, 
 zug'.) — rosa ' in blanditiis ama- — Plautus furnishes numerous 
 torum est. Asin. in 3, 74. instances of oportet (oportuit 
 Cure. I 2, 6. Bacch. i 1, 50'. oportebat) with the past parti - 
 Pareus, Lex. PI. 409. ciple, e.g. Most, rv 8, 26 aurem 
 
 192. superas =victoriam ob- admotam oportuit. Other pas- 
 ting. — qui impetrant viz. noctes sages may be found in my note 
 meas ; the aposiopesis being on Aul. 747 and Ter. Andr. 
 chosen for the sake of decency, 239. — The adv. mordicus occurs 
 
 194. blanditur may be re- also Aul. 232, where our note 
 ferred to the coaxing words may be consulted. 
 
I. 3. 13 — 21.] MENAECHMEL t , <j 31 
 
 Me. sustine hoc, Penicule : exuvias facere quas vovl 
 
 volo. 
 Pe. ce*do, sed obsecro he'rcle, salta sic cum palla 
 
 p6stea. 
 Me. ego saltabo ? sanus hercle n6n es. Pe. egone 
 
 an tu magis ? 15 
 
 si non saltas, £xue igitur. Me. nimio ego hanc peri- 
 
 culo 
 200 slirrupui hodie. me6 quidem animo ab Hippolyta 
 
 subcingulum 
 HeYcules haud ae*que magno umquam abstulit peri- 
 
 Culo. _ _■ \ <fr\ 
 
 cape tibi hanc : quando una vivis meis morigera md- 
 
 ribus. 
 Er. b6c animo dec<£t animatos e'sse amatores probos. 
 Pe. qui quidem ad mendicitatem s6 prbperent de- 
 
 tradere. 21 
 
 (Plaut. Stud. 11 65 sq.) contradicts B.'s statement. ' 196. quas sua 
 uiuola B, emended by Camerarius. 201. Haud hercle seque B, 
 aud hercule seque C, haud hekc— was legible in A. Emended -by 
 Lambinus. haud Herculeus aSque Koch Eh. Mus. xxv 619. 204. 
 
 196. sustine hoc ' take hold of kX« liriraS-e f«<n-%>a Koidfeiv rbv 
 this', i.e. the cloak he must take 'Iir7roXi)r7)s... , r))»' jxkv 'Iirir6\frrriv 
 off in order to present the palla tcrelvas rbv faaT-rjpa d(patpe'trat. 
 to Erotium.— Menaechmus ex- Apollod. 11 9, 1 and 8. The 
 presses himself, as if he were whole affair is narrated at con- 
 going to hang up an ex voto siderable length by Diodorus 
 offering at the shrine of some Sic 'iv 16. 
 
 deity. 201. haud... umquam is mere- 
 
 197. sic, such as you are ly an emphatic negation, just 
 after taking off your cloak. as never is often used in the 
 Hence also postea. place of a simple not. 
 
 199. nimio periculo ' at a 202. una 'you above all', 
 mighty risk \nimius being again vivis might be a mere variation 
 used in the sense of permagnus. instead of es, but we should 
 
 200. According to the legend, rather take it here in the sense 
 Admete, the daughter of king of vitam instituis. 
 Eurystheus, desired to have 203. We should probably 
 the girdle of > Hippolyta, the assume the suffix to retain its 
 queen of the Amazons. Hence original long quantity in decet. 
 Eurystheus ivvarav a&kov 'H/>a- 204. The parasite adds an 
 
32 MENAEUHMEI. [I. 3. 22—28. 
 
 tM: I ~*xr. ~t - _ - - - — — — - - " 
 
 205 Me. qu£ttuqr minis' ego istanc e'mi anno uxorf 
 
 meae. 
 Pe. qu&ttuor minae" perieran-t-plane, ut ratio re'dditur. 
 Me. scin quid volo ted accttfare ? Es. scio, curabo 
 
 quae" voles. 
 Me. iube igitur tribus n6bis apud te prandium accu- 
 
 rarier, j as 
 
 £tque aliquid scitamentorum de" foro obsonarier : 
 210 glandionidam suillumt aut laridum pern6nidam 
 aut sinciputame'nta, 'porcina afcfc aliquid ad eum 
 
 modum, 
 
 prdperent se B. after Bothe, but against the mss. 205. ego emi 
 istanc BDc, ego mi istanc GDa, ego emi istanc the early editors, 
 ego istanc emi Fleckeisen, E. , who adds ' nisi etiam dnno emi trans- 
 ponendum' — a transposition subsequently adopted by Brix. 207. 
 nolo te A, nolo ego te the other mss., volo ted the present editor. — 
 scio mss., si scio Acidalius, hauscio E., cedo Brix. But Erotium 
 had already been informed of Menaechmus' intentions (comp. T. 
 185) and could therefore easily guess his renewed injunctions. 
 209. scitamentorum Turnebus, subsequently confirmed by the 
 palimpsest; sit amentorum the mss. 210. suillam mss, , emended 
 by Scaliger. aut added or transposed by E. (the palimpsest has 
 lakidtjmautpernonidem). pernonidem mss. 211. sinciputamenta 
 
 ironical limitation of Erotium' s itself and coordinated with scin. 
 general maxim : 'at least such 208. In tribus the final s 
 
 as would run headlong into and in apud the final d should 
 
 be dropped. 
 
 205. anno 'a year ago' a 209. scitamentum 'dainty', a 
 rare use of this ablative, of word of archaic Latin, subse- 
 which PareuB (Lex. PI. 34) quently revived by the anti- 
 quotes another instance from quarians Gellius, Appuleius and 
 Amph. pro]. 90. Macro bius. 
 
 206. This observation is of 210. glandionida and per- 
 
 course made aside -ut ratio nonida are comic patronymics 
 
 redditur 'according to the ac- derived from glandium and 
 
 count rendered'. perna, both of them favourite 
 
 207. In Ciceronian Latin we dishes on Eoman tables, eu- 
 should have to employ the illus and laridus should be 
 subj. velim in the indirect ques- taken as adjectives, the latter 
 tion dependent on scin. But in denoting 'dried'. 
 
 Plautus the indicative is the 211. sinciputamentum is an- 
 
 rule, the sentence not being other comic word, instead of 
 
 considered as a dependent ques- sinciput. 
 tion, but as one pronounced by 
 
I. 3. 29 — 35.1 MENAECHMEI. 33 
 
 I ' i c — ■ — 
 
 m^dida quae antep<5sita in mensa mihi bulimam 
 
 —7 _Bg®Eant. v __:„„_: __~ k 
 
 atqueajAutu^ _JEr. licet ecastor. Me. n6s prodi- 
 
 ^mus id lorum : 30 
 
 */j*a1ih hie nos erimus. dum coquetur, interim pot£- 
 
 ***^y bimus. 
 
 215 EE/'quando vis, veni: parataxis erit. Me. propera 
 
 raodo. 
 
 se'quere tu me. Pe. ego he*rcle vero te'dt servabo 
 
 et te - sequar, ,,.<;• ,. C /^^V* _ 
 ne"que hodie, ut te perdam, meream deorum divitias 
 
 mihi. 
 Ee. evocate intus Culindrum mihi coquom actutum 
 foras. . 35 
 
 A according to Geppert PI. Stud. 11 p. 66,sincipitamenta the other- 
 mss. 212. quae mihi adposita in mensam miluinam (mdluinam A) 
 mss., emended by E. and Bernays Mus. Eh. vn 612. 214. quoqui- 
 tur mss., emended by Bothe. 216. me om. mss., added by 
 
 : 212. madidus 'well-done', 
 comp. the verb madere below v. 
 326. — Both adponere and ante- 
 ponere are used of putting a 
 dish on the table. — Bulimam 
 Graeci magnam famem dicunt 
 Paulus Festi p. 32. The word 
 miluina (given by the. mss.) is 
 not known from any other 
 place, and has been superseded 
 by an ingenious emendation of 
 Bitschl's. The Greek is f!ov\i- 
 11.1a. (Thornton translates mil- 
 uina ' a kite-like appetite ' and 
 adds in a note ' as hungry as a 
 hawk is now a common say- 
 ing'.) 
 
 213. licet ' willingly': see n. 
 on v. 158. 
 
 214. iam 'directly'. 
 
 216. servabo te 'I shall keep 
 my eye upon you'; compare 
 above, v. 123. 
 
 217. hodie is frequently added 
 without strict reference to pre- 
 
 W. M. 
 
 sent time and merely serves to 
 increase the emphasis of the 
 assertion. — ut te perdam ' on. 
 condition to loee yon ', ut cor- 
 fesp"Sn"tHHg"to the (ireek £<p' 1? 
 re or ware. ' I would n ot take 
 the wealth of al l the_gods, if I. 
 must lose you for n\—%eorum 
 Bh^uTa^bBTiloHounCed in two 
 syllables, with synizesis of eo. 
 218. evocate is addressed to 
 her slaves, intus 'from within', 
 a not uncommon meaning in 
 Plautus. — intus evocare occurs 
 also Pers. 11 4, 30. Bacch. 1 1, 
 62. iv 9, 127. (Parous, Lex. 
 PI. 229). — Oix av eilpoi tls Sov- 
 A<w p.dyetp6v rtva iv KupapSia 
 ttXtjv Ttapa llotretSlmrip fiovip. 
 ooi'Xoi 5' tyoiroiol irapij\6ov virb 
 irpdirw Maicedovwv tout iwlTijr 
 Seucrdprav tj Si vfipiv 1? Si drvxlav 
 runt a.lxp.o.\tjyna6eLa(j:v iroXeoiv. 
 Athenaeus, Deipnos. xiv 658 (p. 
 1466 ed. Dind.). With respect - 
 
 3 
 
34 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 [I. 4. 1-7, 
 
 ROTIVM. CYLINDEVS. 
 
 Ee. sp6r£ulam cape dtque argentum. dccos tris 
 
 numinos habes. mp^^^ 
 
 220 Cy. habeo. Ee. abi atque obsdnium adfer. tribus 
 
 vide quod sit satis : , • \V 
 n^que defiat ne'que supersit. Cy. quoius modi i 
 
 homines erumt? 
 Ee. ego, Menaechmus et parasitus dius. Cy. iam 
 
 isti stint decern, 
 nam parasitus dcto munus hdminum facile fungitur. 5 
 Ee. elocuta sum convivas : ce"terum cura. Cy. ilicet. 
 225 c6cta sunt : iube ire accubitum. Ee. r^di cito. Cr. 
 
 iam ego bic ero. 
 
 Lamliinus. 219. argentum hoc Miiller Pros. p. 555 in order to 
 avoid the hiatus. 220. tribus vide mss., transposed by B. 221. 
 ei homines E., hiomines BaG, hi homines Bb. 224. ego et Hf. mss. , 
 et ova.. B., Brix. 223. octo hominwm mums mss., transposed by 
 Muretus V. L. mi 11. octo hominum unus munus Miiller Nachtr. 
 p. 97. 224. cuRAiin.icET A, emended by Biicheler Eli. M. xn 
 133. cura licet E. with Bb. 
 
 to the Bomans, we may quote 
 Livy xzxix 7 luxuriae peregri- 
 nae origo ab exercitu Asiatico 
 invecta in urbem est... epulae 
 quoque ipsae et cura et sumptu 
 maiore adparari coeptae. tumco- 
 quus, vilissimum antiquis man- 
 cipium et aestimatione et usu, 
 in pretio esse, et quod ministe- 
 rium fuerat, ars haberi coepta. 
 
 219. nummos, probably drach- 
 mas. See my note on Aul. 
 108. 
 
 220. In tribus the final s 
 Bhould be dropt. 
 
 221. defieri (instead of de- 
 esse) occurs also Bud. 1107 and 
 Ter. Hec. 768 ; for similar for- 
 mations see Kuhner, Ausf. 
 Gramm. ip. 532. — quoius should 
 be pronounced as a monosyl- 
 
 lable (quois). — <=ei, see our 
 crit. note on Trin. 17. 
 
 222. isti ' those enumerated 
 by yon'. 
 
 223. The deponents utor 
 fruor anHfungor were anciently 
 used with the accusative; see 
 our note on Trin. 1. 
 
 224. ilicet is an expression 
 settling the whole affair: 'you 
 may go' and need not trouble 
 yourself any further about it. 
 
 225. cocta sunt 'all is (as 
 good as) cooked'. ' A phrase 
 expressing the cook's great con- 
 fidence in his art and despatch. 
 ■ — In rldi the ending of the im- 
 perative appears short, as it 
 often does in disyllabic forms 
 (rd git pitta mane Une etc.). 
 
II. 1. 1—9.] 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 35 
 
 ACTVS II. 
 
 Menaechmvs II. Messenio. 
 J Me. Voluptas nullast navitis, Messenio, Q^" x II 1. 
 
 maior meo animo, quam si quam ex alto procul a-v.Li. 
 
 terram conspiciunt. Mes. maior, non dicam dolo,^** t* 
 
 si adve'niens terram videas, quae fuerit tua. 
 230 sed quae"so, quam obrem nunc Epidamnum ve'nimus ? 5 
 
 an quasrmare omnis circuWmus insulas ? 
 
 Me. fratrem quaesitum gdminum germanum meum. 
 
 Mes. nam quid modi futurumst ilium quaeVere? 
 
 hie £nnus sextust, p6stquam ei rei operam damus. 
 
 226. voluptas nulla est is the order of words in the palimpsest, 
 nulla&t voluptas BCD. 227. si quam Brix, qum or quom the mss., 
 quando Placidus, Lambirms, E. aliquam quom Miiller Nachtr. 
 p. 128. 229. si Acidalius, quam si mss. 231. circuimus B. 
 against the mss. 234. ire hi Ba CDa, emended by Gruter. 
 
 Act II. So. i. This act is 
 opened by Menaechmus Sosi- 
 cles who had been five years in 
 search of his twin brother and 
 has just arrived at Epidamnum. 
 His conference with his slave 
 Messenio conduces not a little 
 to the knowledge of the story 
 of this comedy. (Thornton). 
 
 227. procul 'from afar. 1 
 
 228. non (or haud} dicam 
 dolo is an idiomatic expression 
 denoting ' to jspeak the_ truth '. 
 See my note on Trin. 90. 
 
 229. fuerit is rather strange 
 instead of sit. Menaechmus had 
 observed 'it is pleasant to see 
 land again after a weary voy- 
 age'. This is enforced by the 
 slave's remark 'it is still more 
 pleasant if that land happens 
 to be your own native land'. 
 (A very contorted and unnatural 
 explanation of this passage is 
 given by Lambinus.) 
 
 230. venlmus, qico/iev. 
 
 231. circumire should here 
 be treated as a compound verb, 
 
 ' i. e. it should be pronounced 
 in four syllables. Brix quotes 
 other instances of this pronun- 
 ciation from Cure, in 81. Asin. 
 in 3, 152. Eud. i 2, 52. True, 
 ii 4, 53. Ter. Phorm. 614, and 
 in the same manner we have 
 circumagi in Horace, Sat. i 9, 
 17. — »*«re-is -thff nomlnattveT 
 
 232'. Observe the allitera- 
 tion in geminum germanum. 
 
 233. nam quid= quidnam. — 
 The infinitive is often very 
 loosely usedin the comic writers. 
 Here, e. g., we should rather 
 expect quaerendo, as we read it 
 in the parallel instance, Asin. 
 v 2, 32 quid modi, pater, am- 
 plexando facies 1 (See also the 
 instances enumerated in our 
 Index on Terence, p. 480 b.) 
 
 234. After postquam and 
 
 3-2 
 
36 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [II. 1. 10 — 20. 
 
 235 Histr6s, Hispanos, Mdssiliensis, Hilurios, 10 
 
 mare" superum omne Gra&siamque ex6ticam r,' ' 
 or£sque Italicas 6mnis, qua adgreditur mare, x *^" 
 sumus circumvecti. si acum; credo, quae'reres, 
 acum invenisses, si appareret, iam diu. 
 
 240 hominem inter vivos quae'ritamus mortuom : 15 
 
 nam inve'nissemus iam diu, si viveret. 
 Me. ergo istuc,quaero ce'rtum qui facial mini, 
 qui se"se dicat scire, eum esse emdrtuom: 
 operam praeterea numquam sumam quadrere. 
 
 215 verum aliter vivgs numquam desi'stam e"xs$qui : 20 
 
 235. Istros and Ilwios E, against the mss. 236. superum 
 iam B. against the mss. 238. Brix adopts, here, in the follow- 
 ing line, and 241, the spelling sei preserved in the palimpsest. 
 Such isolated instances of archaic spelling seem to us to be 
 foreign to the purposes of a school-edition. 239. tarn diu mss., 
 emended by Gulielmius. 243. quei and deicat A, Brix (not B.). 
 The whole line is considered spurious by B. emoetuum A, mortuwm 
 
 quom the historical present is 
 frequently found in the comic 
 writers. In Ciceronian Latin 
 we should, in such a case as the 
 present, prefer dare coepimus. 
 
 235. In Histri and Hilurii 
 ( = 'IXXv/uoQ the initial h is 
 warranted by the best mss. :" 
 see our note on Trin. 852. Cors- 
 sen 1 106. 
 
 236. mare superum = mare 
 Adriaticum. — Graecia exotica, 
 ii ££o>'EXXds, a Greek appellation 
 of the Greek settlements in 
 the south of Italy (Magna Grae- 
 cia) and on the islands of the 
 Mediterranean. As Scaliger 
 observes (Castig. in Fest. p. 81), 
 'Magna Graecia' was the name 
 given by the Bomans j ' contra 
 Graecos Italos ipsi Graeci trans- 
 marini vocabant ££wtuso£s, id 
 est barbaros'. 
 
 238. In sumus the final s 
 should be dropt.— The hiatus in 
 si acum is legitimate : Introd. to 
 Aul. p. 68. — credo belongs, logi- 
 
 cally speaking, to the apodosis 
 (invenisses) : in prose we should 
 say credo te inventurum fuisse. 
 
 239. si appareret ' if it were 
 to be seen'. 
 
 241. viveret— esset inter vi- 
 vos. 
 
 242. Menaechmus does not 
 seem to doubt Messeuio's state- 
 ment, but adds 'Very good; 
 supposing all you say to be 
 true, I wish to find some one 
 that can confirm your views 
 (istuc) by his authority and can 
 pretend to know (scire, not 
 merely to guess) that my brother 
 is actually dead '. 
 
 244. praeterea 'beyond that', 
 i.e. beyond obtaining an au- 
 thoritative statement of my bro- 
 ther's death. — quaerere is an- 
 other instance of the loose 
 employment of the infinitive; 
 operant sumam is of course iden- 
 tical in sense with of erase co- 
 nabor, whence the construction 
 of the infinitive. 
 
II. 1. 21—26.] 
 
 MENAECHMEI. ^* 
 
 37 
 
 ego ilium scio quam carus sit cordi meo. 
 
 Mes. in scirp'o fiodum quaeris. quin nos hinc domiuii 
 
 redimus, nisi si hist6riam scripturi sumus ? 
 
 Me. dictum/^a'iijfacesBas ddctuin, si cave&s mats; 
 250 mole'stus ne sis. n6n tuo hoc ne't modo. 23 
 
 r, , /Mes. em,- illoc enim verbo esse me serv6m scio: 
 
 ^•t- the other mss. 244. Pronounced spurious by Ladewig Phil, mi 
 ' 463. 246. cordi sit cams all mss. except the palimpsest. 249. A 
 
 ^-•Y^very difficult line, not yet satisfactorily emended, fac cessas 
 datum edis caveas B, facessas doctum et discaveas Camerarius 
 (facessas et discaveas had already been found by Saracenus), and 
 bo also E. I have adopted Brix's reading, which is, however, far 
 from being absolutely convincing. 250. hem B. at the end of this 
 line. All the mss. read em, justly adopted by B., N. PI. Exc. 1 p. 74 
 and Brix, whom we follow in placing it at the beginning of the 
 next line. 251. idm esse E. , but in his N. PI. Exc. 1 p. 74 he 
 prefers illoc enim vSrood, saying that no one capable of appre- 
 
 245. vivos = si vivo or quam- 
 diuvivo. The whole line is thus 
 paraphrased by Lambinus ' ve- 
 rum nisi aliquem invenero qui 
 Tnihi liquido confirmet fratrem 
 meum esse mortuum, quamdiu 
 vivam, numquam id quod in- 
 stitui desistam exsequi'. 
 
 246. ilium is an instance of 
 the anticipation of the subject 
 of the dependent clause, instead 
 of ego (I alone) scio quam cams 
 Me sit cordi meo. 
 
 247. The expression was pro- 
 verbial of a foolish and un- 
 profitable occupation : see Do- 
 natus and the other commen- 
 tators on Ter. Andr. v 4, 38. 
 The old English translator, W. 
 W. (1595) simply says ' This is 
 washing of a blackamore', and 
 Thornton compares the proverb 
 'you are seeking for a needle in 
 a bottle of hay'. — quin 'why 
 not'. The question suggests a 
 very strong exhortation. 
 
 248. nisi si ' except if ' ; comp. 
 Trin. 474. — historia is used like 
 the Greek laropla in the sense of 
 
 an account of a voyage. A very- 
 funny and amusing book of 
 Lucian's is in this way entitled 
 aK'qdrjs laropla. 
 
 249. 'Si pergis mihi ob- 
 strepero et verbis istis doctis 
 atque argutis adversari, non 
 procul abs te aberit infortunium 
 et malum '. Lamb. — dictum 
 doctum occurs also Trin. 380, 
 where see our note, dictum 
 facessere lit. 'to despatch a say- 
 ing' (not 'to be done with it', 
 as is wrongly stated in Smith's 
 Diet. s. v. facesso, compare the 
 expression rem facessere Eud. 
 iv 4, 17) means 'to pour forth 
 wise sayings'. See, however, 
 also crit. note. — malum = ver- 
 oera (Trin. 1045). 1 
 
 250. tuo modo 'in your way.!/ 
 Lambinus quotes meo modo ('in 
 my own style') from Ter. Andr. 
 1 1, 126, and Brix from Pers. 
 ill 1, 31. 
 
 251. For em see our note on 
 Aul. 633. — enim 'to be sure' : 
 the final m should be dropt, 
 thus making -oc e~ni- a dactyl. 
 
38 MENAECHMEI. [II. 1. 27—40. 
 
 ,non pdtuit paucis plura plane pr61oqui. 
 verum tamen nequeo conjtineri quinjloquar. M*"^' 
 audin, Menaechme? quom inspiqio marsuppium, » 
 255(yia^ic?iti Jhercle ddmodum laestiveVsumus. 
 
 tn^ — 'fit h Ann) n ewitvx'mn TNini*rtnrvvii , m rflWATT 
 
 ne~"ra hercle, opin"of,"~nSt dorcram revorteris, 
 ubi nil habebis, geminum dura quaeris, gemes. ) 
 nam itast haec hominum natio : in Epid^piniis 
 voluptani atque potatores m^xumi : 
 
 260 turn stidbphantae et palp^ores plurumi 35 
 
 in urbe hac^habitant : turn meretrices mnlieres 
 nusquam p^Smbentur blandiores gdntium. 
 propterea huic nrbi n6men Epidamno inditumst, 
 quia nemo ferme sine damno hue dev6rtitur. 
 
 265 Me. ego istuc cavebo. ce"do du-m hue m'ihi marsup- 
 pium. f*^ 40 
 
 dating Plautine rhythm would scan enim verbo. 253. continere 
 mss., emended by Fleckeisen. 257. quaeris the mss. except A 
 which reads qdaekes. 258. epidamnieis A and so Brix (not E.). 
 Epidamnia the other mss. ; the reading of our text is due to B. 
 who first discovered a, gap in A before Epidamnieis. 259. maxumei 
 A and so Brix (not B.). 260. plubumei A and so Brix (not B.). 
 263. hebei A, but Brix prints urbi. 264. sinedamnohuc A, 
 Bothe, E., hue sine damno the other mss. 265. h. cmihi A (E.), 
 
 252. potuit, erus meus. The viaticatus is air. dp. 
 observation is of course ad- 257. ubi nil habebis, when 
 dressed to the spectators. ' He everything has been spent. — 
 could not have so distinctly ex- Observe the jingle in the words 
 pressed more in a few words '. geminum and gemes. 
 
 Observe the alliteration with p. 259. For the pronunciation 
 
 253. tamen should be pro- ofw>Z8p(<J?'tiseeIntrod.toAul.p. 
 nounced tame by dropping the 5i.—potator is one who drinks 
 final n, the syllables tame nique habitually. 
 
 constituting a proceleusmatic. 260. sycophanta 'sharper'. 
 
 254. Completely expressed 261. meretrix mulier may be 
 the thought would be 'when I compared with servus homo and 
 examine our purse, I cannot such Greek expressions as avilp 
 but come to the conclusion that GrpaTubrns. 
 
 we are furnished in a very sum- 262. We should join nus- 
 
 merly manner'.— aestive viati- quam gentium, 
 
 cati 'furnished as it were for 263. For the punning inter- 
 
 a summer journey', for which pretation of the name we may 
 
 not so many preparations are refer to our note on v. 33 above. 
 
 required as for a winter journey. 265. istuc 'that which you 
 
II. 1. 41 — 2. 2.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 V 
 
 39 
 
 Mes. quid e6 vis f Me. iam aps te me'tuo de verbis 
 
 tuis. 
 Mes. quid metuis ? Me. ne mihi damnum in Epi- 
 
 damn6 duas. 
 tu amator magnus rnulierum es, Messenio, 
 ego a&tem homo iradindus, animi pe*rditi: — 
 270 id utrumoue, argejatum quando habefeo, cavero, 45 
 ne tu definquas neve ego irascar tibi. 
 Mes. cape atque serva: me" lubente f^ceris. 
 
 Cylindrvs. Menaechmvs 
 
 fiT 
 
 Messenio. 
 
 Cy. beDe 6psonavi atque e*x mea sententia : II 2. 
 bonum autepbnam prandium prans6ribus. 
 
 miM hue the other mss. 267. duas 'codd. Pii', dies or diis the 
 mas., duis B. after Beroaldus. 268. tu magnus amator mss., 
 transposed by Fleckeisen. magnus tu amator E. after Bothe. 
 perdici Ba, perciti Lipsius. 271. tu ne B. against the mss. 275. 
 
 say ',—cedo dum 'just give*. Im- 
 peratives are often strengthened 
 by the addition of dam. 
 
 266. eo vis, viz. facere, 'what 
 would you do with it?' — de 'in- 
 ferring from', i.e. according to. 
 
 267. For duas see our note 
 on Aul. 62 and 236. 
 
 269. ego autem 'I on the 
 other hand '. — animi perditi 
 'animi impotentis, hoc est, qui 
 sibi moderari et temperare non 
 potest.' Lamb. But in spite of 
 this explanation, perditus does 
 not appear to be the adjective 
 required by. the manifest sense 
 of the whole passage. This 
 would rather be perciti, com- 
 pare Cic. pro Mil. 23, 63 sive 
 enim Mud animo irato ac per- 
 cito fecisset. Nearly the same 
 expression is used by Livy, 
 xxi 53, ingenium percitum ac 
 ferox. (Brix.) 
 
 270. According to the rule 
 given by the grammarians (e. g. 
 
 Madvig § 284, 3) we should ex- 
 pect eerum utrumgue. But there 
 are numerous exceptions to this 
 rule; see the collection given 
 by C. F. W. Miiller, jahrb. 1865 
 p. 560 sq. With respect to ca- 
 vero, it may be observed that 
 the comic writers often use the 
 future perfect in the sense of 
 the simple future. So also/e- 
 ceris in the following line. 
 
 Act II. Sc. n. Culindrus, 
 the cook, comes from the mar- 
 ket with the provisions he has 
 bought and first opens this 
 'Comedy of Errors' by mis- 
 taking Menaechmus Sosicles 
 for Menaechmus of Epidam- 
 nus, who was to dine with his 
 mistress. 
 
 274. For anteponere com- 
 pare above, v. 212. — pransoribus 
 here almost = pransuris. In 
 prose this employment of the 
 verbal noun would be inadmis- 
 sible. 
 
40 MENAECHMEI. [II. 2. 8 — 13. 
 
 275 sed ecclim Menaechmum video, vae terg6 meo : 
 prius iam convivae o&ambulant ante 6stium, 
 quam egoopsonatu re'deo. adibo atque &dloquar. 5 
 Menae'chme, salve. Me. di te amabwnt, qufsquis es. 
 * * * * quis ego sim ? 
 
 280 Mes. non he"rcle vero. Ct. ubi convivae ce"teri ? 
 Me. quos td convivas quaens? Cy. parasitum tuom. 
 Me. metim parasitum ? ce"rto hie insanust homo. 
 Mes. dixin tibi esse hie- sucophantas plurumos ? io 
 Me. quern tu parasitum quae"ris, adulesc^ns, meum ? 
 
 285 Cy. Peniculum. Me. * * * ubi meus? 
 
 Mes. peniculum tuom eccum in vidulo salv6m fero. 
 
 uideon. e tergo B, emended by GruterV 276. ambulant mss., 
 corrected by E. 278 sq. di te amabunt quisquis ego sim mss., 
 emended by E., who proposes the following supplement for v. 279: 
 tun Mnc scis qui sit, qui sciat] quis Sgo siem. 280. ubi sunt 
 convivae E. 282. certe mss., emended by E. 285. om. in all 
 mss. except the palimpsest. E. proposes the following supple- 
 ment : 
 
 Ct. Peniculum. [Men. quis is Peniculust aut] ubi is c5st meus ? 
 286. tuom added by E., om. mss. 289. pretii mss., emended by 
 
 275. vae tergo meo 'woe to ral convivae ceteri, as he had 
 my back'. He is of course afraid previously declared the parasite 
 of punishment for having been to be equal to eigbt. The co- 
 too long in getting the pro- pula sunt is sometimes omitted 
 visions. in pointed questions ; e. g. Asin. 
 
 276. obambulare occurs also I 3, 44 ubi illaec quae dedi an- 
 Capt. in 1,81. Trin. 315. Poen. tet Ter. Eun. iv 7, 10 ubi 
 prol. 19, and should also be alii ? Andr. in 1, 19 num im- 
 restored Cas. rv 1, 10 vestitus memores discipuli ! 
 
 laute exdrnatusque obdmbulat, 282. certo 'for certain, to 
 
 the sense being 'he walks up be sure', certe means ' at least '. 
 
 and down in expectation of 283. Cicero would have said 
 
 something to come'. nonne dim 'have I not told 
 
 277. opsonatu = ab obsonaw you'. Plautus does not use 
 do. So again v. 288. nonne, as has been shown by 
 
 278. di te amabunt is a for- A. Spengel (' die Partikel nonne 
 mula expressing thanks; see im Altlatein', Munich 1867); 
 note on Trin. 384. he employs -ne in its place. 
 
 280. The hiatus in the cae- 285. See crit. note, 
 
 sura of the iambic senarius is 286. The slave observes that 
 
 justified by the change of speak- he has his master's ' peniculus' 
 
 ers, which necessitates a strong ('dishclout') safe in his wallet, 
 pauso. The cook uses the plu- 
 
II. 2. 14 — 24.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 41 
 
 Ct. Menae'chme, numerohuc advenis ad prandium : 
 nunc 6psonatu rtSdeo. Me. respond^ mihi, 
 adule'scens: quibus hie pre'tiis porci veneunt is 
 
 290 sacres sinceri ? Gy. nummis. Me. nummum a me 
 accipe : 
 iube te" piari de" mea peeunia. 
 nam equidem Mepol insanum e'sse te certo scio, 
 qui mini molestu's h6mini ignoto, quisquis es. 
 
 297 Ct. est tibi Menaechmo n6men, tantum qu6d sciam. 
 
 298 Me. pro sano loqueris, qudm me appellas n6mine. 
 
 the Italians of the 15th century. 290. nummum om. all mes. 
 excepts. 292. edepol added by E., om. mss. 297—302. The 
 ms. order of these lines is indicated by the marginal numbers. 
 The order adopted in our text is due to Brix. 297 is given in 
 strict conformity with the mss. E. reads : hem, tibi Menaechmo 
 
 287. numero 'too soon' or 
 'too quickly'. Comp. Amph. 
 I 1, 25. Cas. iii 5, 21. Epid. n 
 2, 121. Mil. gl. T 1, 7. Poen. 
 v 4, 100. 
 
 289. Pigs were a favourite 
 offering to obtain the restoration 
 of a sound mind. 'Porci sa- 
 cri, sive ut veteres loquebantur, 
 sacres et sinceri immolabantur 
 .ab iis qui piaculum aliqnod ad- 
 
 UlTSgT-^Tlt (LUt, I'""' jPSi"l) "*.tl,- 
 
 terant . sign ificat i gitnr TWp- 
 naeclunns coquum esse insa - 
 num. nunc locum autem expli- 
 oat Varro libro n de re rustica 
 capite 1 : fere ad quattuor men- 
 ses a mamma non diiunguntur 
 agni, haedi tres, porci duo: e 
 queis, quoniam puri sunt ad 
 sacrificium, ut immolcntur, olim 
 appellati sacres, quos appellat 
 Plautus cum ait quanti sunt 
 porci sacres. idem eodem 
 libro capite 4 [§ 16] apertius et 
 planius : cum porci depulsi sunt 
 a mamma, a quibusdam delici 
 appellantur neque iam lactentes 
 dicuntur. qui a partu decimo 
 die habentur purij ab eo appel- 
 
 lantur ab antiquis sacres, quod 
 turn ad sacrificium idonei dicun- 
 tur primum. itaque apud Plau- 
 tum in Menaechmis, cum insa- 
 num quern putat, ut pietur in 
 oppido Epidamno, interrogat : 
 quanti hie porci sunt sa- 
 cres?' Lamb. 
 
 290. sacres is the plural 
 technically used in sacrificial 
 language, instead of the ordi- 
 nary sacri. 
 
 291. For iube see Introd. to 
 Aul. p. 26. 
 
 293. homo ignotus 'a stran- 
 ger'. 
 297—302. See crit. note. 
 
 297. The usual expression 
 is quod sciam, but there is no 
 reason to suspect the reading 
 of the text, as tantum imparts a 
 certain ironical force to the 
 passage. "We should translate 
 ' at least as far as I know '. 
 
 298. At first the cook had 
 addressed Menaeohmus without 
 express mention of his name, 
 but now he has addressed hiTri 
 by name {appellavit nomine). 
 
42 MENAECHMEE [II. 2. 25 — 33. 
 
 299 sed tibi novisti me"rf? Cy. ubi ego te n6verim, 25 
 
 300 qui amicam erata meam habeas hanc Erdtium ? 
 
 301 Me. neque hejele ego habeo ne"que te, qui homo sis, 
 
 scio. 
 
 294 Cy. Culifldrus ego sum: n6n nosti nomen meum? 20 
 
 295 Me. ,seu tu Culindru's seu Colindrus, peneris. 
 
 296 ego te" non novi ne"que novisse ade6 volo. 
 
 302 Cy. non scis quis ego sim, qui tibi saepissume 
 cyathisso apud nos, quando potas? Mes. hei mihi, 
 quom nihil est, qui illic homini dimminuam caput. 30 
 
 305 Me. tun cyathissare mihi soles, qui ante hunc diem 
 Epidamnum numquam vidi neque veni ? Cy. negas ? 
 Me. nego hercle vero. Cy. n6n til in illisce ae"dibus 
 
 nomen tamen est quod sciam. 299. tit me B. after Pylades, me 
 mss., med Brix. See also E.'s N. PI. Exc. 1 p. 50. 300. habeas 
 cram meam mss. , transposed by R. 301. ego om. all mss. except 
 A. 294. nomen non nosti E. after Bothe ; we have followed Brix 
 in maintaining the ms. order of these words. 295. coriendrus 
 mss., coliendrus Lambinus. Plautus probably wrote si instead of 
 the first seu. 302. tibimet qui E. against the mss. 304. Mi mss., 
 illic E. 308. I follow E.'s reading, di [qui Bb) illos homines que 
 
 299. novisti should be trans- with my name, 
 lated as the real perfect of nos- 302. tibi should be pro- 
 cere : ' where did you make my nounced as an iamb, 
 acquaintance ?' But in v. 294, 303. cyathisso = Kva8l£w : 
 nosti stands in its usual present comp. note on v. 11 above, 
 sense 'you know'. 304. quom nihil est' because 
 
 295. The joke intended by I have nothing'. As quom is 
 Menaechmus is not quite clear. here manifestly causal, we 
 It is, however, very probable should put the verb in the 
 that Gulindrus should here be subj. after it in Ciceronian 
 connected with cuius, and Co- Latin, but in Plautus even 
 lindrus with colis = amies (to a causal quom is joined with 
 be taken in an obscene sense the indicative. — illic =illice(A&- 
 =penis, mentula). The editors tive), by no means uncommon 
 differ considerably both as to in Plautus. — dimminuere is a 
 the reading and the explanation compound peculiar to the comic 
 of this passage. — perieris, air 6- writers, instead of disminuere, 
 Xoio. and only used in the two phra- 
 
 296. ego: I at least do not ses d.. caput and d. cerebrum. 
 know you — in whatever way you Compare Most. 1 3, 109. Ter. 
 may have become acquainted Eun. rv 7, 33. Ad. iv 2, 32. 
 
II. 2. 34 — 45.] MENAECHMEI, 43 
 
 habitas? Me. qui di illos, qui illic habitant, peV. 
 
 duint. 
 Cy. insanit hie quidem, qui fpsws male dicit sibi. ss 
 310 audin, Menaechme ? Me. quid vis ? Cy. si me c6n- 
 sulas, 
 nummum ilium quern mihi dudum pollicitu's dare 
 iutjeas, si sapias, p6rculum adferri tibi. 
 nam tfi. quidem hercle certo non sanu's satis, 
 315 Menaechme, qui nunc ipsus male dicas tibi. 40 
 Me. heu, hercle hominem mole"stum et odiosum 
 
 mihi. 
 Cy. sol^t iocari saepe mecum illdc modo : 
 ,quam vis ridiculus est, Ubi uxor ri6n ades't. 
 quid ais tu ? Me. quid vis, ndquam t Cy. satin hoc, 
 qu6d vides, 
 320 tribus vdbis opsonatumst #n opsono ainplius, 45 
 
 illic mss. di homones Brix. 309. quidem B. after Bothe, equidem 
 mss. id se mss., ipse B. with the Italians, ipsus Luchs in Stude- 
 mund's Stud, i 1. p. 47. 3115. sanu's Bentley, sanus mss. This 
 line and the ioJlowing are pronounced spurious by Vahlen 
 Bh. Mus. xvi 635. 316. multum mss., molestum Camerarius, 
 comp. v. 323. B. places heu ' extra versum ' and reads ' the line 
 itself hercle hdminem inep turn [not in the mss.] multum et odiosum 
 mihi. Brix introduces his favourite homonem. 319. inquam B. 
 (who was also the first to divide the persons properly). 320. vobis 
 
 308. qui (the old ablative however, an instance of at- 
 of the indefinite pronoun) in traction nearly parallel to Trin. 
 execrations has the same power 985, ilium quern ementitu's, is 
 as utinam. See my note on ego sum. — dudum 'but now '. 
 Ter. Phorm. 123.— perduint a 317 sq. These two lines are 
 Plautine form =perdant. addressed to the spectators. 
 
 309. hicquidem' he indeed': 318. quamvis 'ever so much', 
 though he tries to fasten the orig. = tarn . . . quam vis ' as much 
 name of madman upon me, I ... as you please'. — ridiculus 
 should rather say that he is 'witty', or 'full of jokes'. 
 
 mad himself. — Wherever ipse is 319. quid ais to introduces 
 followed by se sese sibi, Plautus a new subject into the conver- 
 seems to have preferred the sation. — In saying hoc quod un- 
 original full form, as has been des the cook shows Menaechmus 
 shown by Luchs (see crit. note). the contents of his 'sportula'. 
 
 311. We should properly 320. tribus should be pro- 
 expect numrno illo. This is, nounced without its final s. — 
 
44 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [II. 2. 46 — 55. 
 
 tibi & parasito et mlilieri? Me. quas mulieres, 
 
 quos tu parasitos loquere ? Mes. quod te urge't 
 scelus, 
 
 qui huic sis molestus ? Cy. quid tibi mecumst rei ? 
 
 ego t6 non novi : cum h6c, quern novi, f&bulor. 
 325 Me. non e'depol tu bomo s&nus es, cert6 scio. so 
 
 Cy. iam ego haec madebunt faxo : nil morabitut. 
 
 proin tu ne quo abeas 16ngius ab ae'dibus. 
 
 numquid vis ? Me. ut eas maxumam malam crucem. 
 
 Cy. te ire be'rcle meliust intro iam atque accumbere, 
 330 dum ego bae'c appono ad V61cani viole'ntiam. 55 
 
 ,om. E. against the mss. 321. quas tu mulieres mss., tu om, 
 Pylades. 323. tibi nam B., but nam om. mss. 326. ego 
 Acidalius, ergo rass. 327. habeas mss., emended by the early 
 editors, ne hinc abeas longius quo E. 328. maxumam in E. with 
 the Italian critics. 329. ire hercle meliust te interim mss., intro 
 
 For the shortening of the first 
 syllable in opsone we may refer 
 to our Introd. to the Aul. p. 57. 
 an opsono means 'or am I to 
 buy still more?' the indicative 
 in these dubitative questions 
 being not foreign to the habit 
 of Plautus. See our note on 
 Trin. 1062. 
 
 322. loquere, Sid arouaro! 
 $X ei s. — scelus urget te means 
 ' some wickedness is now visited 
 upon you', hence your madness 
 which shows itself in your 
 troubling my master with these 
 foolish importunities. In a si- 
 milar manner, Hegio exclaims 
 quod hoc est scelus Capt. 758, 
 which Brix justly explains as 
 equivalent to quid lioc est in- 
 filicitatis. 
 
 323. The relative sentence 
 qui huic sis molestus implies 
 a consecutive sense, = ita ut. 
 Hence the subj. 
 
 325. The hiatus in tu homo is 
 legitimate: Introd. to Aul. p. 68. 
 
 326. iam 'directly'. — made- 
 bunt faxo 'shall soonbecooked, 
 I warrant you'; see note on 
 Trin. 60. 
 
 327. In Ungius we have an 
 instance of the original long 
 quantity of the neuter suffix of 
 the comparative. See Introd. 
 to Aul. p. 14. The sense of the 
 comparative is 'farther off than 
 necessary'. 
 
 328. numquid vis (' you don't 
 want anything else, do you?') 
 is the common 'formula ab- 
 eundi'. — The comic poets use 
 both in malam rem ire and 
 simply malam rem ire. On 
 Ter. Eun. 536, where the latter 
 phrase occurs, Donatus has the 
 following observation — hoc 
 adverbialiter dixit, quern ad- 
 modum dicimus domum ibis. 
 For instances in Plautus see 
 Poen. 11 48. in 6, 4. Capt. in 
 1,9. 
 
 330. ad Vdlcani violenliam 
 is most probably a parody of 
 
II. 2. 56 — 6(5.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 45 
 
 ibo Intro et dicam te hie astare Er6tio, 
 
 ut te hinc abducat p6tius quam hie adstds foris. 
 
 Me. iamne abiit? abiit. e*depol haud mendacia 
 
 tua verba experior e"sse. Mes. observatd modo : 
 335 nam istfc meretricem cre'do habitare mulierem, 6o 
 
 ut quidem ille insanus dixit, qui hinc abiit modo. 
 
 Me. sed miror, qui ille ndverit nomen meum. 
 
 Mes. minume hercle mirum : mcrcm hunc mere- 
 trice's habent : 
 
 ad p6rtum mittunt se'rvolos, ancillulas : 
 340 si quae* peregrina navis in portum advenit, 6a 
 
 rogitant quoiatis sit, quid ei nomen siet : 
 
 emended by Dissaldeus, the rest by E. 330. Volcani ad B. after 
 Bothe. 333. The second abiit is not in the msB. and was added 
 by Gruter. 336. abiit hinc E. against the mss. 338. mirumst 
 E., but mirum of the mss. is justly defended by Brix. 340. sed 
 qua mss., emended by Kampmann (E.). 341. rogant B, rogitant 
 
 phrases in which mirum ap- 
 pears, e.g. mirum ni, mirum 
 quin, mirum quid Amph. in 
 
 2, 73, mirum si Trin. n 2, 50, 
 minume mirum Tor. Haut. n 
 
 3, 4. non edepol mirum Hec. 
 I 2, 85, conf. n 1, 23. Brix 
 justly compares the Greek oii- 
 Sev da.uimar6v l tL Savfiaarov ; 
 
 339. The diminutives may 
 be rendered 'their cozening 
 slaves and maids '. It may be 
 added that ancilla is commonly 
 used as the fem. of servus, the 
 regular serva being extremely 
 rare. (See diet.) 
 
 341. Gentile cuias, cuius 
 nominativum etiam cuiatis 
 communi genera antiqui profe- 
 rebant Priscian xvn 23 (p. 122 
 H.) who quotes the present 
 passage and Poen. v 2, 33. The 
 same nominative occurs Cure, 
 in 37. Baoch. fragm. 23. — For 
 the expression quid nomen siet, 
 comp. Trin. 889. Zumpt § 134, 
 note. 
 
 some tragic phrase, which 
 sounds very ludicrously in the 
 mouth of a cook. 
 
 336. The first syllable in 
 ille is used short, the syllables 
 ut quid U- constituting a dactyl. 
 
 337. qui 'in what manner, 
 how', noverit is again a real 
 perfect 'he learnt'. 
 
 338. As Brix observes, the 
 copula (est) is never omitted in 
 Plautus in the expressions cer- 
 ium est, par est, aequom est, 
 opus est, usus est, melius est, 
 satins est, negotium est, and 
 some similar phrases; but est 
 is generally omitted in expres- 
 sions partaking of the character 
 of an exclamation, e.g. facete 
 dictum Capt. 172. Ter. Eun. 
 
 ' ii 2, 57. emptum Capt. 175, 
 nimiumbonae rci Stich. n 2, 
 55. nimis factum bene ib. 51, 
 Epid. ii 2, 25. scitum istuc 
 Bacch. ii 2, 31. tua factum 
 opera Pers. v 1, 22. This is 
 especially so in the various 
 
46 MENAECHMEI. [II. 2. 67 — 3. 1. 
 
 postllla extemplo se adplicant, adglutinant : 
 
 si pellexerunt, peVditum amittliiit domum. 
 
 nunc in istoc portu stat nauis praedat6ria, 
 345 aps qu£ cavendum n6bis sane ce'nseo. 70 
 
 Me. mon^s quidem hercle re'cte. Mes. turn demurn 
 sciam 
 
 recte" monuisse, si tu recte caveris. 
 1 Me. tace dum parumper : nam concrepuit 6stium. 
 
 videamus, qui hinc egre'dituv. Mes. hoc ponam interim. 
 3;)0 adservatote haec sultis, navale"s pedes. 75 
 
 Erotivm. Menaechmvs II. Messenio. 
 
 Er. sine f6ris sic : abi, nolo* 6periri : II 3. 
 intus para, cur£: vide, 
 
 the other mss. and Priscian. 342. post iliac B, emended by 
 Gnlielmius. 344. nauis should be pronounced as a monosyllabic 
 word, like the Greek vavs. Comp. nauta=navita, naufragus= 
 navifragus. The ordinary pronunciation might be easily intro- 
 duced into the present passage by writing portust instead of portu 
 
 343. amittunt = dimittunt, their luggage (here indicated by 
 very common in the comic haec). 
 
 poets. Act II. So. in. Erotium comes 
 
 344. The first syllable of is- out of her house and falls into 
 toe is used short, nunc fo 1st, the same mistake as the cook. 
 constituting a dactyl. — For the Menaechmus, however, resolves 
 pronunciation of nauis see crit. toi avail himself of this opportu- 
 note. — praedatoria, \narpwi\. nity and accepts her invitation 
 
 347. In prose we should say for dinner. 
 
 me recte monuisse. The con- 351. sic, 'thus', as I leave 
 
 struction is here quite like the the door, half open. — forls 
 
 Greek in sentences containing should be pronounced as a pyr- 
 
 the same subject. rhich, the first foot of this ana- 
 
 348. For tace dum see In- passtic line being a proceleus- 
 
 trod. to Aul. p. 26. — concrepuit matic In abi the ending of 
 
 ostium, i<l/bipri<rei> t\ dipa. the imperative is shortened, 
 
 349. hoe, the ' vidulus' car- and sic tibi forms a dactyl.— 
 ried by Messenio, see above v. operiri, viz. eas (i. e. fores). 
 286. — ponam =deponam. In some editions (e.g. Hitachi's) 
 
 350. sultis =si voltis, just as we find the perverse reading 
 sis=si vis, sodes=si audes. — opperiri. — The words Erotium 
 navales pedes =remiges, the ma- speaks on coming out of her 
 riners who had followed Me- house are of course addressed 
 naechmus and Messenio with to a servant who has followed 
 
II. 3. 2 — 13.1 MENAECHMEI. •,, ,47 
 
 J U>- j 
 
 quod optist, fiat, sternite lectos, 
 incondite odores : 'munditia 
 355 inle'cebra animo sit aruantum. 
 
 amanti amoenitas malost, nobis lucrost. s 
 
 sed ubi illest, quern coquos ante aedis ait e"sse? 
 
 atque eccum video, 
 qui mi e"st usui et plurumum prodest. 
 item buic ultro fit, lit meret, potissumus nostrae ut 
 
 sit domi. 
 360 nunc &m adibo: adloquar ultro. 10 
 
 animule mi, mibi mira videntur 
 te bic stare foris, fores quoi pateant 
 magis, quam domus tua, domus quoin haec 
 tua sit. 
 
 stat. 351 sqq. The editors differ considerably in arranging the 
 first lines of this canticum. B.'s reading is as follows : 
 
 sine foris sic: abi. 
 
 nolo 6pperiri: intus para, cura\ vide. 
 We have followed the distribution of the two lines such as it is in 
 the mss., which likewise give operiri, not opperiri. 355. animo st 
 mss., sit Brix, animdst ea B. after G. Hermann. 358. qui mihi 
 
 her to the door. She herself Ennius). Erotium has, as we 
 
 does not want the doors to be know, more than one lover, but 
 
 shut, because she expects Me- here she speaks as if Menaech- 
 
 naechmus to go in again with mus were the greatest favourite, 
 
 her directly. 361. Observe the endearing 
 
 353. sternere lectos means to diminutive in Erotiiim's address 
 
 cover the seats (which were of to Menaechmus. In the same 
 
 plain wood) with cushions and manner, a favourite modern 
 
 ' vestis stragula. ' Greek way of addressing beloved 
 
 356. Observe the parono- persons, is fvxtr^a pov or xap- 
 
 masia in the beginning of the Slrfa /iov. — For mira videntur 
 
 line. — malo = damno, as may be comp. Trin. 861 mira sunt with 
 
 seen from the antithesis. our note. 
 
 358. The final m in plwrii- 362. fores quoi should be 
 mum should be dropped. read as an anapaest. For fores 
 
 359. potissumus should pro- see Introd. to Aul. p. 39 sq. 
 bably be pronounced with the 363. The words domus tua 
 second syllable short, as if it constitute a proceleusmatic. — 
 were potisumus (which is, in quom — ' because indeed', in 
 fact, the Plautine spelling of which sense a causal quom is 
 the word, doubling of conso- joined with the subjunctive even 
 nants being not practised before in Flautus. This subj. is, 
 
48 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 [II. 3. 14—22. 
 
 omne' paratumst, 
 365 ut itissisti atque ut v61uisti, is 
 
 neque tibi iamst ulla mora intus. 
 prandium, ut iussisti, hie ctiratumst : 
 ubi ltibet, ilicet accubitum. 
 Me. quicum haec mulier 16quitur? Er. equidem 
 tdcum. Me. quid mecurn tibi 
 370 fuit unquam aut nunc e^t negoti ? Er. quia pol te 
 unum ex 6mnibus 
 Ve'nus me voluit magnificare : ne'que id haud im- 
 merit6 tuo. 20 
 
 nam ^castor solus bene factis tufs me florente'm 
 
 facis. 
 Me. cdrto haec mulier aut insana aut dbriast, 
 Messdnio, 
 
 eat ii-sui et plurumum prddest R. 366. iam om. mss., added by G-. 
 Hermann. 368. ire licet mss. , licet ire R, ilicet Brix. 371. haud 
 
 properly speaking, a potential, 
 and corresponds to a Greek 
 optative with av. 
 
 366. iam 'henceforth'. (See 
 crit. note.) 
 
 368. ubi is used of time. — 
 ilicet=ire licet (which is here 
 wrongly given by the mss.) ; for 
 examples see v. 225. Capt. in 
 1, 9. 1 1, 22. Most, m 2, 161 
 (Brix). 
 
 371. For magnificare and 
 analogous formations see my 
 note on Aul. 718. — On neque... 
 haud Brix has the following 
 observation : 'As the negative^ 
 power of neque is weakened by 
 its being a combination of the 
 copula and the simple negation, 
 the popular speech frequently 
 adds a second negative particle 
 without destroying the negative 
 character of the sentence. It 
 is then the rule that the two 
 negations should be separated 
 
 by another word. There are 
 the following instances of this 
 in Plautus. Baceh. rv 9, 114 
 neque ego haud committam ut — 
 dicas. Epid. v 1, 57 neque tile 
 haud obiciet mild pedibus sese 
 provocatum. Pe^s. iv 3, 66 ne- 
 que mi haud imperito eveniet, 
 tali ut in luto haeream. Bacch. 
 fr. 26 neque id haud subditiva 
 gloria [oppidum] arbitror. This 
 peculiarity occurs only once in 
 Terence, Audr. 1 2, 34. We 
 may also compare PI. Cure, iv 
 4, 23 (atque?) Mil. gl. v 18. 
 Men. 1029'. 
 
 372. In prose we should say 
 beneficiis. 
 
 374. The hiatus in quat 
 homi is legitimate : Introd. to 
 Aul. p. 68. — The subjunctive in 
 the relative sentence is due to 
 the notion of causality implied 
 in it. 
 
25 
 
 II. 3. 23— 31.J MENAECHMEI. 49 
 
 quad hominem ignotum compellet m6 tarn fami- 
 
 Mriter. 
 375 Mes. dixia ego istaec hie solere fieri ? folia nunc 
 
 cadunt, 
 praeut si triduom h<5c hie erimusi turn arbores in 
 
 te" cadent. 
 nam ita sunt hie meretrices : omnes elecebrae argen 
 
 tariae. . -7- ' 
 
 se'd sine me dum hanc cdmpellare. heus mulier, 
 
 tibi dic6. Er. quid est? 
 Mes. ubi tuie hunc homindm novisti ? Eh. ibidem, 
 
 ubi hie me iam diu: 
 380 in Epidamno. Mes. in Epidamno? qui hue in 
 
 hanc urbe'm pedem, 
 nisi hodie, numquam intro tetulit ? Er. hela, deli- 
 
 ci&s facis. . 30 
 
 mi Menaechme, quin amabo is intro? hie tibi' erit' 
 
 re'etius. 
 
 om<- mss., added by Pylades. 377. E. does not punctuate after 
 ■meretrices. 379. tu, hunc mss., tute hunc Bothe, E., tu istunc 
 
 375. dixin=nonne &ixi.~is~ perative. See v. 386. — tibi dico 
 taec, ea quae Ubi nunc finnt. 'I speak to you'. 
 
 —folia nunc cadtmt would seem 379. T?or-novisti see note on 
 
 to have been a proverbial ex- v. 299. — ibidem is the usual 
 
 pression, though we cannot prosody in Plautus, not ibidem. 
 
 produce it from any other place. 380. in Epidamno is but seem- 
 
 The meaning is 'if you com- ingly used instead of Epidairmij 
 
 pare what happens now to what the latter corresponds to the 
 
 will happen three days hence, French expression with a, the 
 
 the comparison will be just as first to dam. 
 
 the leaves of a tree are to the 381. Plautus uses the origi- 
 
 tree itself'. nal form of the perfect tetuli 
 
 376. For praeut see our note in several places. — delieias fa- 
 on Aul. 503, where the analo- cere 'to joke, jest', faire des 
 
 gous praequam occurs. — triduom 
 
 hoc 'three days from now'. * 382. amabo 'I pray you, 
 
 877. elecebra, a word no please" : very oommon in Plau- 
 
 doubt formed by Plautus, and, tus and Terence. See Ter. 
 
 it would seem, used only in this Bun. 130 feic = apud me, 'in 
 
 passage. Compare i\lecebra. my house'. — rectim 'better' 
 
 378. dum belongs to the im- than where you are now.- 
 
 W. M. 4 
 
SO MENAECHMEI. [II. 3. 32—40. 
 
 Me. haec quidem edepol reote appellat me6 me 
 
 mulier n6mine. 
 uimis miror, quid hoe sit nego-ti. Mes. 6boluit mar- 
 
 suppium 
 385 huio istuo, quod hab&. Me. atque edepol tu me 
 
 monuisti probe, 
 acoipe dum hoc : iam scibo, utrum baee me mage 
 
 amet an marsuppium. 85 
 
 Ee. eamus intro, ut praiideamus. Me. bene vocas: 
 
 tarn gr&tiast. 
 Ee. our igitur me tibi iussisti o6quere dudum pran- 
 
 dium? 
 Me. egon te iussi edquere? Ee. certo tibi tu et 
 
 parasitd tuo. 
 3.90 Me. quoi malum parasito 1 certo haec mulier non 
 
 sanest satis. 
 Ee. Peiiioulo. Me. quis istest Peniculus ? qui ex- 
 
 tergentur baxeae ? 40 
 
 Brix. 384. sit mss., est B, 389. egone mss., emended by Bothe. 
 — tu om. mss., added by E. 391. bexeae -with the supersc. 
 
 384. For oboluit ('she has has been shown by Bibbeck Lat. 
 
 got an inkling of) see, our note Part. p. 28,. by supplying (torn) 
 
 on Aul. 2^4. quam si accepissem quod offers. 
 
 •386. Futures in ibo and irrir 388. dudum 'not long since';- 
 
 perfects in ibam are not un- So again v. 392. 
 
 commoninPlautusandTerence.. 390. For malum as an inter- 
 
 387. eamus becomes disyl- jection ("-the deuce'), see our 
 
 labicby way of synizesis.— bene note on Aul. 426. 
 
 =benigne 'you are very kind tQ 391. baxea ocours in Plautus 
 
 invite me'. — Festus p. 360 says only ip thiB passage. Plaoidus 
 
 'amtiqui tarn.etia.jn pro tamerp gloss, p. 13 ed. A: Deuerling 
 
 usisunt': this shortened form has two articles which maybe 
 
 tarn {=tame, Introd. to Aul. p. referred to this passage : 'baxae, 
 
 36) is. however, exceedingly calceimulierisalti'.and'taeaa, 
 
 doubtful in the passages quoted' calciameuta' : the editor adds in 
 
 by Festus. The expression tarn his note references' to other 
 
 gratiast occurs also Pseud, n 4, glossaries, from one of which it 
 
 23 ; Stich. in 2, 18 ; compare appears that the explanation of 
 
 Most, v 2, 9 de cena facio gra- this glossematic word is due to 
 
 Ham, and may he explained Ya?ro. 
 without taking tam=tamen, as 
 
II. 3. 41 — 49.] MENAECHMEI. 51 
 
 Er. scilicet qui dtidum tecum venit, quom pallam 
 
 mihi 
 de*tulisti, quam ab uxore tu£ surrupuisti. Me. quid 
 
 est ? 
 tibi pallam dedi, quam uxori meae* surrupui ? sanan 
 
 , es? . r \ 
 
 395 certo haec canterino rituj mulier lastans sdmniat. 
 Ee. qui lubet ludibrio habere me atque ire infitias 
 
 mihi . 45 
 
 facta quae sunt? Me. die quid est id qu6d negem, 
 
 quod fe'eerim? 
 Ee. pallam te hodie mihi dedisse uxoris. Me. etiam 
 
 nunc nego. 
 ego quidem neqne timquam uxorem habui neque 
 
 habeo : neque hue 
 400 umquam, postquam natus sum, intra portam pene- 
 
 travi pedem. 
 
 huxeae B, emended by Scutarius. 395. certe mss., certo F. mulier 
 cantherin ori tu mss., mulier ca/ntharino ritu Scutarius, transposed 
 by E. wbo subsequently (N. PI. Exe. I p. 64) maintained the ms. 
 order by reading ritud. 397. quodf. mss., quom E. 398. uxoris 
 
 392. scilieet 'of course', with negem quod fecerim = quod dicis 
 
 a certain tinge of irony. me negare, quamqnam id fece- 
 
 395. ' Non est dubium quin rim. The two relative sen- 
 equi etiam stantes dormiant et tences should be taken as co- 
 somnient. porro canterii equi ordinated members. Their re- 
 sunt castrati : itaque et canta- lation would be clearer if their 
 rios stantis somniare et cante- order were altered in this way 
 riorum somnia placidiora et quod fecerim {et) quod (nunc) 
 tranquilliora esse quam equo- negem (me fecisse). 
 
 rum probabile est. quin con- 399. The hiatus, in the cae- 
 
 stat canterios magis quam equos sura of the trochaic septenarius 
 
 stantes dormire ac somniare '. (after uxorem) is legitimate. 
 Lambinvs. 400. peneirare is used as a 
 
 396. qui lubet=qui fit, ut transitive verb by Plautus in 
 tibi lubeat. — ire infitias — infi- the phrase pedem penetrare (hi 
 tiari (from fateri). The con- prose we should say inferre), 
 struetion of the accusative is which occurs here and below 
 like venum ire (venire). v. 816, and in the reflexive se 
 
 397. The question depend- penetrare (Trin. 276. 291. 314. 
 erit on die is put in the direct Amph. 1 1, 94. True. 1 1, 23). 
 
 form of the indicative, quod 
 
 4—2. 
 
52 MENAECHMEI. [II. 3. 50 — 58. 
 
 prandi in navi : inde hftc sum egressus, Mc te con- 
 
 veiii. Er. e"ccere, so 
 
 perii misera. quam tu mini nunc navem narras? 
 
 Me. lfgneam, 
 saepe tritam, saepe fissam, saepe excusam malleo. 
 quasi supellex pellionisit: palus palo prdxumust. 
 405 Er. iam, amabo, desiste ludos facere atque i hac 
 
 mecum semul. 
 Me. ne"scio quern tu,. mulier, alium hdminem, non 
 
 me quaeritas. 55 
 
 Er. n6n ego te novi Menaechmum, M6scho pro- 
 
 gnatum patre, 
 qui Suracusis pernibere natus esse in Sicilia, 
 410 ubi rex Agathocles regnator fuit, et iterum Pintia, 
 
 sed iam BDa, emended by Colvius and Gntter. 401. hie om. 
 mss., added by the present editor [et had been added by R.). 
 
 403. fixam ms8., em. by R. excussam mss., emended by Scaliger. 
 
 404. pellionis mss., emended by R. 405. desine mss. (i&m me 
 amabo, desine R. adding me, but admitting a faulty dactyl in the 
 third foot), desiste Fleckeisen Jahrb. 1867 p. 629. — After this line 
 R. assumes a gap of one line. 407. nam nescio quern mulier R., 
 the reading in our texlj is due to Fleckeisen. nescio quern B, nam 
 quern the other mss. 410. R. subsequently proposed iibi Agafho- 
 coles rix, against the mss., which he followed in his edition. 
 
 / 402. Like many women, Ero- 404. Observe the frequent 
 
 .tium uses strong phrases in a alliterations in this line. — Peg 
 
 Igreatly weakened sense. Hence is close to peg in the ship, just 
 
 I her exclamation •perii misera as in a fur shop. 
 
 J should not be taken as any- 405. amabo, ' please '. 
 
 thing very serious. — narrare 406. nescio quern should be 
 
 means merely ' to mention, ' or taken aB one word, or at least 
 
 'talk of. This is very fre- as one notion, just as the French 
 
 quent in the comic writers. — je ne sais quoi is often used in 
 
 Menaechmus' answer is of course the sense of ' quelque chose', 
 
 ironical. He speaks as if he had 407. non ego te novi, ' do 
 
 gravely to answer a question, in you actually mean to say that 
 
 which quam means as much as I do not know you ?' 
 
 qualem. 410. Agathocles reigned over 
 
 403. The ship had often Syracuse from 317 to 289 be- 
 
 -sprung a leak and then been fore Christ. — iterum, ' in the 
 
 repaired, during which process second place '. Pintia is not 
 
 it was ' bethumped with a known as king or tyrant of Sy- 
 
 mallet'. racuse, but there was about 280 
 
II. 3. 59 — 67.] MENAECHMEI. 53 
 
 tdrtium Lipar6, qui in morte re*gnum Hieroni tr&- 
 
 didit, 
 nunc Hierost? Me. baud falsa, mulier, prae*dicas. 
 
 Mes. pro Iuppiter, . 60 
 
 ntim istaec mulier Mine venit, quae" te novit tam 
 
 cate? 
 ******* 
 
 415 Me. hercle opinor pe*rnegari n6n potest. Mes. ne' 
 fe'eeris. 
 pdriisti, si inteassis intra limen. Me. quin tu tace 
 
 modo: 
 
 * " * * * * * * 
 
 bene res geritur. adsentabor, quicquid dicet, mtilieri, 
 
 si possum hospitium nancisci. iam dudum, mulie'r, 
 
 tibi 65 
 
 420 ndn inprudens £dvorsabar : bunc metuebam ne" meae 
 
 uxori renuntiaret de - palla et de prandio. 
 
 pinthia mss., emended by B. 413. After this line a gap was 
 pointed out by Ladewig, who likewise discovered the gap 
 
 b. Chr. a tyrant of Agrigentum negando. Menaechmus had 
 of the name of itrrlas, and it is twice already declined Ero- 
 possible that Plautus makes tium's invitations. 
 Erotium mistake one Sicilian 416. periisti, 'you are as 
 tyrant for another. good as lost '. — intrassis = in- 
 ill. A tyrant of Syracuse travesis =intraveris. — For tace 
 of the name of Liparo is alto- see Introd. to Aul. h p. 26. 
 gether unknown in history, nor 417. Here a line has dropped 
 did Hiero ascend the throne by out in which Messenio was 
 quiet succession. He was elect- ordered to stand back. Below, 
 ed arpaTTfyis in 269, and be- v. 432, he is told to come again 
 came king in 265. nearer. 
 
 413. In a gap which has 419. si, ' if perhaps '. 
 
 been justly assumed after this 420. mora inprudens =consul- 
 
 line, Erotium should be " sup- to. — advorsari, ' speak against ', 
 
 posed to have repeated her in- i.e. say the contrary of what 
 
 vitation. A supposition of this another says. — In hunc metue- 
 
 kind is absolutely necessary on 6am ne renuntiaret we have an 
 
 account of the expression per- instance of ' anticipatio ', so 
 
 negari in the following line. oommon in Plautus. 
 415. pernegare=persistere in 
 
54 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [II. 3. 68 — 74. 
 
 nllnc quando vis, e&mus intro. Er. etiam parasitlira 
 manes 1 
 
 Me. neque" ego ilium mane6 neque flocci facio, neque 
 si venerit, 
 
 eum volo intro mitti., Er. ecastor haud invita fe"- 
 cero. 70 
 
 425 se"d scin quid te amabo ut facias ? Me. impera quid- 
 vis modo. 
 
 Er. pallam illam quam dudum dederas, £A phry- 
 gionem ut deTeras, 
 
 lit reconcinne'tur atque ut 6pera addantur quae" volo. 
 
 Me. hercle qui tu rdcte dicis. eadem opera igno"r&- 
 bitur, 
 
 after v. 416. 422. intro eamus Guyet, Mttller Pros. p. 581 ; but 
 the hiatus in the caesura is quite legitimate. 428. quin It, but 
 qui of mss. has been justly defended by Fleckeisen. — opera om. 
 
 422. etiam, 'still' or 'yet', 
 to be understood of time. 
 ' Won't you yet wait for your 
 parasite ?' 
 
 424. fecero is another in- 
 stance of a future perfect used 
 in the sense of a simple future. 
 
 425. amabo ' I will ask ', a 
 sense derived from the paren- 
 thetical use of amabo, with im- 
 peratives, when it means ' do 
 this and I will love you for 
 it'. Brix compares True, iv 4, 19 
 immo amaho ut hos dies ali- 
 quos sinas eum esse apud me. 
 See also below v. 524. — Me- 
 naechmuB' answer is slightly 
 ironical, as it should be under- 
 stood with a certain reserva- 
 tion — only command me, but 
 I'll see what I can do. Bro- 
 tiumof course concludes him 
 to be quite ready to do any- 
 thing she demands. 
 
 426. Instead of dederas we 
 should, perhaps, rather expect 
 the perfect dedisti. There are 
 other instances in Flautus in 
 
 which the pluperfect seems to 
 be used instead of the perfect. 
 
 427. opera refers to addi- 
 tional trimming and other em- 
 bellishments. 
 
 428. The ablative of the in- 
 definite pronoun qui (originally 
 ' somehow or other ') is often 
 used with an asseverative force, 
 compare atqui. This is espe- 
 cially seen in the eomio style 
 in the phrases hercle qui, eder- 
 pol qui, ecastor qui, and quippe 
 qui. See our notes on Aul. 
 346 and Trin. 464.— eadem 
 (which should be treated as a 
 disyllabic, by way of synizesis) 
 is very common in Plautus in 
 the sense of ' at the same time'. 
 We should supply opera, as 
 appears from the passages 
 quoted in my note on Trin. 
 578. In the present place, it 
 is very probable that opera was 
 likewise added by ( the poet him- 
 self, though it was omitted by 
 careless scribes. 
 
II. 3. 75—80.] MENAECHMEI. 55 
 
 ne uxor cognoscat te habere, si in via conspe'xerit. is 
 430 Er. drgo mox aufe'rto tecum, quando abibis. Me. 
 maxume. 
 Er. e&tnus intro. Me. i, iam sequar ted : bunc volo 
 
 etiam c6nloqui. 
 e'ho, Messenio, dd me accede hue. Mes. quid ne- 
 
 gotist ? Me. suscipe hoc. 
 
 ****** 
 
 Mes. quid eo opust ? Me. opust. scio ut me dices. 
 Mes. tanto nequior. < 
 
 ,- Me. [tdce * * * * 
 
 435 h&beo praedam ; tantum incepi dperis. i, quantum 
 potes so 
 
 mss., added by Fleckeisen, ea R. 431. i om. mes., added by the 
 present editor, ted Guyet, te mss. (R.). 432. ad me om. mss., added 
 by R. suscipe R., sussciri mss. hoe om. mss., added by Brix (?) — 
 After v. 432 a gap was pointed out by Brix. 434. 'hio neeesse 
 est talis versus interciderit, quo et intrandi consilium' suum 
 Menaeehmus aperiret (ooli. v. 437) et taoere servum iuberet (coll. 
 v. 438). quare tace posui in prineipio. absque quo esset, illud 
 quidem potuerat etiam post v. 436 did atque ita tu servari v. 
 437' R. 435. i Gruter, et the mss. (which arose from ei being 
 misread as et), i et R., ei Brix. potes mss., potest Dousa, R. 
 
 430. mox is explained by the master why he considers this 
 epexegetieal sentence quando necessary ; but Menaeehmus re- 
 abibis. — maxume corresponds to plies somewhat gruffly ' it is 
 the Greek affirmation pdXunu, necessary', i.e. he declines lo 
 'willingly'. Comp. Asin. v 2, give his reasons, and cuts off 
 54. Cure, ii 3, 36. Rud. v 3, 54. any possible remonstrances on 
 
 431. eamus should be pro- the part of his servant by adding 
 nounced as a disyllabic, by way scio ut (i.e. qualem) me dices. 
 of synizesis. — iam, ' directly '. Messenio shrugs his shoulder 
 
 432 sq. Messenio had pre- and drily adds tanto nequior 
 
 viously deposited his luggage (sc es), ' so much the worse for 
 
 and is now told to take it up you, it you do this foolish act 
 
 again. Brix aptly compares so deliberately'. For the ex- 
 
 v. 197, sustirie hoc. In the gap pression comp. Ter. Ad. 528 
 
 which has been justly assumed with our note, 
 
 after this line, Menaeehmus 485. Menaeehmus feels cer- 
 
 should be supposed to have in- tainof the success of his scheme, 
 
 formed Messenio of his inten- hence his expression, habeo 
 
 tion to follow Erotium into her praedam. The colouring of the 
 
 house. Messenio then aske his passage is again of a military 
 
56 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [II. 3. 81 — 86. 
 
 \ £bduc istos in tabernam actutum devors<5riam. 
 tu facito ante sdlem occasum ut venias advorstim 
 
 mihi. 
 Mes. n6n tu istas meretrices novisti, e*re ? Me. tace, 
 inquam, atgue Mnc abi. 
 w mihi dolebit, n6n tibi, si quid ego stulte fecero. 
 440 mulier haec stulta atque inscitast : quantum per- 
 spexi modo, 85 
 
 est hie praeda n6bis. Mes. perii. iamne abis ? pe- 
 riit probe : 
 
 436. abduce E. against the mss. 437. turn It. after Lambinus. 
 solis mss., emended by Lambinus. 438. atque hinc dhi am. mss., 
 added by E. 439. hie si E., but hie is, not in the. mss. 440. The 
 proper punctuation of this line is due to E. 441. Mnc E. against 
 
 character, opus denotes the 
 works with which he means to 
 take the place he besieges. — 
 The hiatus after incepi may be 
 defended on account of the cae- 
 sura, but as the pause cannot 
 be very strong in the present 
 place, we should, perhaps, be 
 justified in assuming that some 
 little word has dropped out, e. g. 
 tantum ego incepi. — quantum 
 potes, 'as quickly as you can'. 
 It is by no means necessary to 
 write potest, as Plautus employs 
 this phrase both in a personal 
 and in an impersonal construc- 
 tion, as I have shown in my 
 note on Aul. 119, where we 
 read quantum potero. 
 
 436. istos, ' your com- 
 panions ', whom Messenio had 
 previously addressed as navales 
 pedes, v. 350. 
 
 437. The past participle 
 occasus is used in an active 
 sense, as in the well-known 
 instances pransus potus cenatus 
 iuratus. The expression sol 
 occasus would seem to have 
 
 been legal, as Gellius xvu 2, 10 
 quotes it from the laws of the 
 twelve tables. In Plautus we 
 have it here, below 1022, and 
 Epid. i 2, 41. See also Neue, 
 Formenl. n p. 337 sq. (see. ed.). 
 — advorsum venire is the usual 
 expression for fetching some 
 one home from a dinner. Hence 
 such a safeguard was called ad- 
 vorsitor. 
 
 ■ 440. inscita is here and v. 
 443 merely a synonym of stulta, 
 but in other passages it bears a 
 different sense. See diet. 
 
 441. The reading of the 
 mss., hie, is justly defended by 
 Brix, who quotes the following 
 instances: Epid. n 2, 117 est 
 lucrum hie tibi amplum. Pseud, 
 iv 7, 100 nihil est hodie hie su- 
 cophantis quaestus. Eud. v3, 
 58 nihil hercle hie tibi est, ne til 
 speres. We should, therefore, 
 understand hie, as if the sen- 
 tence were est hie praeda nobis 
 parata, the booty lies there 
 ready and, as it were, only 
 waiting for us. 
 
II. 3. 87 — 90.] MENAECHMEI. 57 
 
 dticit lembum idm dierectum n&vis praedatdria. 
 se"d ego inscitus sum qui ero me p6atulem mode- 
 
 rarier : 
 dicto me emit audientem, haud imperatorem. sibi. 
 445 se'quimini, ut, quod imperatumst, ve'niam advorsum 
 
 te'mperi. 90 
 
 the mss.' 442. iam om. mss., added by E. 443. sum om. mss., 
 v added by E. 
 
 442. dierectus, 'to the deuce', sibi dicto essem oboediens, non 
 els dirtliXeiav, ris KbpaKau See ut sibi imperarem. 
 
 our note on Trin. 457. — The 445. quod imperatumst is an 
 
 phrase navis praedatoria has apposition to the sentence in- 
 
 already occurred, v. 344. troduced by ut. We should 
 
 443. postulare, dJioOx, ' to say ' as I have been command- 
 pretend', ed'. — temperi, ' in (right) time', 
 
 444. In prose : emit me ut very common in Plautus. 
 
58 MENAECHMEI. [III. 1. 1—7. 
 
 ACTVS III. 
 
 Penicvlvs. 
 
 Plus triginta n£tus annis 4go sum, quom interel 
 
 loci . Ill 1 
 
 n&mquanv quicquam facinus feci perns neque sce- 
 
 le"stius, 
 quam hodie, quom in cdntionem me'diam me inmersi 
 
 miser : 
 ubi ego dum hiet6, Menaechmus s^ subterduxit mihi 
 450 £tque abiit ad amicam, credo, n^que me voluit. du- 
 
 cere. s 
 
 qui ilium di omnes pe'rduint, qui primus eommentust 
 
 male, 
 c6ntionem habe're, quae homines occupatos dccupat. 
 
 446. triginta annis natus mss., transposed by Grater, ego 
 om. mss., added by B. 451. qui Camerarius, que or quo mss. 
 — quei primus Brix from C. — male om. mss., added by R. 
 452. Contionem hoc requi B, emended by Pylades. (qui is defended 
 
 Act HE. So. i. The parasite Aul. p. 68.— For the metapho- 
 
 who had lost sight of Menaeoh- rioal use of immergere Lambinus 
 
 mus in the crowd arrives now,, compares below v. 703. 
 
 , too late for the meal which has 449. dum should not bo 
 
 been eaten without him. elided. 
 
 446. natus sum =wiipvKa; we 450. The final syllable of 
 
 should not think of a simple abiit appears here in its ori- 
 
 statement of age, which would ginal long quantity.— In prose 
 
 require the accusative annos. the sentence neque me voluit 
 
 Translate ' I have existed now ducere would necessarily be 
 
 during more than thirty years '. subordinated to the main clause 
 
 — interea loci, 'meanwhile', the (quom nollet me ducere or nolens 
 
 genitive loci being dependent m. d.). But the conversational 
 
 on the adverb, and used of style frequently prefers coor- 
 
 time. See our note on Ter. dination of sentences. 
 
 Eun. 128 and Haut. 257. 451. For q\ti see note on v, 
 
 448. The hiatus in qudm 428. — male, 'maliciously'. 
 
 hodie is legitimate : Introd. to 452. Observe the parono- 
 
III. I. 8 — 14.] MENAECHMEIi 59 
 
 ndn ad earn rem hercle 6tiosos hdmines decuit de"ligi, 
 
 qui nisi adsint qu6m citentur, census capiant ilico ? 
 455 qu qua . senatus . . . o . . one 
 
 . . K q . . m 1 
 
 ■adfatimst hominum, in dies qui singulas escas edint, 10 
 
 quibus negoti, nihil est, qui essum neque vocantur 
 neque vocant: 
 
 e6s oportet contioni dare operam atque c6mitiis. 
 460 si id ita esset, ndn ego hodie pe"rdidissem prandium : 
 
 quoi tarn credo f&nus factum quam me video 
 vivere. . 
 
 by Langen ; see Jahresber. i 409.) 453. hercle om. msa., added 
 by E. 455 sq. only in A, but in a very lacerated shape. 457. 
 adfatim hominumst B. against the mss. 461. This line is not yet 
 emended with absolute certainty, quoi or cui tam credo datum 
 uoluisse mss. quoi tarn- credideram insoluisse E. hesitatingly 
 (insoluisse he takes to be the same as insuevisse) ; quod tam credo 
 deos voluuse Brix; quod tam rebar ratum habuisse .Vahlen Eh. 
 Mus. xvi 632. The present editor once thought of quod tam credo 
 nunc periisse or quoi tam credo damnum inlatum quam, but pre- 
 ferred at last the reading given in our text on comparison with 
 v. 492. voluisse got into the 'text from a note once added in 
 explanation of this : videtur dicere voluisse or something to the 
 
 masia in occupatos occupat, ' it present place. It is, therefore, 
 
 takes possession of people who highly probable that the lines 
 
 are already taken up with busi- 453 sqq. are due to some later 
 
 ness of their own '. interpolator and not to Plautus 
 
 453. ndra=nonree. — ad earn himself. 
 
 r«ro= ad contiones. 457. adfatim is here used 
 
 454. ' Magistratus censibus and construed like the adverb 
 captis eos, qui vocati ad con- satis. — indies, &v' rmipav. They 
 tionem non venerint, multent. eat only one meal a day. 
 
 hoc non temere a Plauto die- 458. The supine essum is in 
 
 turn, nam quemadmodum se- several places attested by the 
 
 natores, qui in senatum non Plautine mss., though it is cer- 
 
 venerant.pignoribus captis mul- tain that Elautus himself spelt 
 
 tabantur, ita in eum civem qui the word with only one s. 
 
 in conMonem non venerat mul- 459. eos should be pro- 
 
 ta erat constituta '. Lamb. It nouneed as a monosyllable, 
 
 should, however, ' be observed 460. si should not be elided, 
 
 that it is not easy to supply the 461. Compare the critical 
 
 subject of the verb capiant, nor note and the fine quoted there, 
 
 is the allusion to the censors v. 492. 
 altogether appropriate in the 
 
60 MENAECHMEI. [III. 1. 15 — 2. 4. 
 
 ibo : etiamnum re'liquiarum spe's animum oblectat 
 
 meum. 15 
 
 se"d quid ego vide6 Menaechmum 1 c&m corona exit 
 
 foras. 
 sublatumst convivium : edepol vdnio advorsum tern- 
 
 peri. 
 465 dbservabo, quid agat, hominem : p6st adibo atque 
 
 Mloquar. 
 
 Menaechmvs II. Penicvlys. 
 Me. potine lit quiescas, si ego tibi hanc hodie" 
 probe III 2. 
 
 lepide"que concinn&tain referam temperi? 
 non f&xo earn esse dices: ita ignor&bitur. 
 Pe. satur nunc loquitur de" me et de parti mea.: (i7s) 
 pallam id phrygidnem f^rt confeeto prandio 
 
 same purpose. 463. ego hie B. , hie om. mss. sed quid hoe 1 video 
 Men. is proposed by Brix. cum om. mss., added by Saracenus. 
 465 follows after v. 474 in BCD, and seems to have stood in A in 
 the present place, to which it was first restored by E. 466. si ego 
 the Italian critics, sedeo G, sed dieo II. 468. non isse earn dices 
 
 463. coronae were placed on — earn is said with a certain 
 thp head towards the end of a negligence of expression, as we 
 meal. When he sees Menaech- should rather expect eandem. — 
 mus coming out of the house In ignorabitur the first syllable 
 withawreathenhishead, the pa- should be treated as short : see 
 rasite concludes that all is over. introd. to Aul. p. 49. 
 
 464. venio advorsum tem- -468 b has been placed here in 
 peri, ' 1 am just in time^ Jo' accordance with Brix. See orit. 
 fetch him home '. The 'para- note. — The ablative parti is one 
 site describes himself as an ad- of the few traces of the original 
 
 • vorsitor (see n. on v. 437) who form of the ablatival suffix, ei. 
 arrives when the feast itself is It appears, e. g. , in an early in- 
 over. His expression is of scription on the tomb of one of 
 course ironical. the Scipios : vietus est virtutei. 
 
 465. post, i. e. ubi observa- Compare also Pers. 1 2, 20 where 
 vera. we have another instance of 
 
 Act III. So. 2. 466. Me- parti. For the whole' subject 
 
 naechmus addresses the first see Kiihner, Ausf. Gr. i p. 203. 
 
 words to Erotium, who is still 469. The parasite appears to 
 
 giving him further instructions be tolerably well acquainted 
 
 as to the ' palla ' he is to carry with the demands of such wo- 
 
 to the embroiderer's. men as Erotium, as he supposes 
 
 468. faxo, ' I warrant you '. at once that Menaechmuai car- 
 
III. 2. 5 — 13.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 61 
 
 470 vin6que expoto, parasito exclus6 foras. 5 
 
 non bercle ego is sum qui sum, ni banc iniuriam 
 meque tiltus pulcre fliero. observa quid dabo. 
 Me. pro.di immortales, quoi bomini umquam uno die 
 
 475 boni dedistis plus, qui minus speraVerit ? 10 
 
 prandi, potavi, sc6rtum accubiii, hanc'dpstuli 
 palldm, quoius beres numquam erit post bunc diem. 
 Pe. neque6, quae loquitur, e"xaudire„. cMnculum. 
 
 faxo E. after Bothe. 468 b placed here by Brix, 'who "follows the 
 traces of A ; B. had placed it after 477, though in brackets. 
 satin B. , Bothe, satur mss. parti or parte mss. ; Plautus himself 
 wrote partei. 471. ego om'. mss., added by E. 473. E. writes 
 observa [tdst opus as the conclusion of one, and ali] quid dabo as 
 that of another line. We follow the mss. 476. apstuli hanc 
 mss., transposed by the present editor, inde or ei apstuli 
 Miiller Pros. p. 687. 477. pallam om. mss., added by the 
 present editor. 479. E. assigns the word clanculum to Me- 
 
 rles the 'palla' to the em- 
 broiderer's to have it made up 
 for his mistress. It should not 
 be overlooked that Peniculus 
 was not present, when Erotium 
 addressed that request to Me- 
 naechmus. 
 
 471. ' Non sum hercle Peni- 
 culus, hoc est, vir strenuus et 
 iniuriarum persequens, vel pa- 
 rasitus egregius et excellens, 
 nisi hanc iniuriam ulciscar.. 
 tota autem huius sermonis vis 
 ex eo pendet quod omnes ho- 
 mines [he means to say, viri] 
 nisi sint quavis muliere igna- 
 viores, volunt retinere gloriam 
 et existimationem suam aliqua 
 virtute partam '. Lamb. 
 
 .<472. pulcre, ' in a glorious 
 manner '. — The words observa 
 quid dabo express great anger: 
 'just you watch what a stroke I'll 
 execute '- Brix quotes Persa n 
 4, 20 specta quid dedero; Asin. 
 ii 4, 33 and Poen. v 5, 7 sic 
 dedero; Ter. Phorm. v 9, 38 
 sicJLabo ; Capt. 492 sic datur. 
 
 474. The hiatus in quoi' 
 homi- is legitimate. It should 
 be observed that Menaechmus 
 is still so far away from the 
 parasite that Peniculus cannot 
 hear the lines 474 — 478. 
 
 476. Lambinus aptly com- 
 pares Bacch. v 2, 71 dimidium 
 auri datur, accipias, potesque 
 et scortum accumbas. The sense 
 is ' to recline beside one at table '. 
 
 477. Heres apud antiques 
 pro domino ponebatur. Paulus 
 Eesti. p. 99. Lamb, compares 
 exheredem facere vitae, ' to de- 
 prive some one of life ! , Bacch. 
 rv 8, 8. — For the reading of this 
 line see orit. note. According 
 to our emendation, quoius should 
 receive a monosyllabic pronun- 
 ciation. (We might also pro- 
 pose quoius heres ilia, i.e. Ero- 
 tium, in which case pallam would 
 not be required.) 
 
 479. exaudire means 'to 
 catch by listening ', excipere 
 auribus. Comp. Trin. in 3, 25, 
 Merc, iv 3, 8. clanculum (often 
 
62 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [III. 2. 15 — 24. 
 
 480 Me. ait hanc dedisse me - sibi atque earn m^meae is 
 uxdri surrupulsse. quoniam sdntio 
 errare, extemplo, qu£si res cum ea esse't mihi, 
 coepi adsentari: mulier quicquid dixerat, 
 idem ego dicebam. quid multis verbis opust? 
 
 485 min6re nusquam be'ne fui dispe'ndio. ^ 20 
 
 Pe. adibo ad hominem; nam turbare ge'stio. 
 Me. quis hie e'st, qui advorsus it mihi? Pe. quid 
 
 ais, homo 
 levi6r quaru pluma, pe'ssume et nequissume, 
 hominis flagitium, subdole ac minumi preti? 
 
 naeclinms. 480. me om. mss., added by Bothe. 484. verbis 
 quid multis opust B., against the mss. opust was first added by 
 Pylades. 487. advorsus it Bothe, adversum sit mss. 489. flagi- 
 tium hominis mss., flagitium tu hominis B.., flagitium homonis 
 
 used by Plautus instead of clam) 
 = ex occulto. He now resolves 
 to show himself openly. 
 
 480. ait, viz. Erotium. 
 
 481. quoniam is used in its 
 original temporal sense = quom 
 iam. It is often joined with 
 the present. It should further 
 be observed that the subject 
 earn is omitted in the depend- 
 ent sentence. 
 
 482. We should not elide 
 cum before ea. 
 
 484.' The phrase quid [mul- 
 tis) verbis opust is of frequent 
 occurrence in the comic writers. 
 It means 'to cut a long tale 
 short'. 
 
 485. bene esse means ' to be 
 well off ' in the sense of ' en- 
 joying oneself exceedingly ', 
 chiefly with the luxuries of a 
 good table. Instances of this 
 phrase are plentifully supplied 
 by Parous, Lex. PI. p. 54. — - 
 dispendio = sumptu. 
 
 486. * turbare = turbas facere, 
 'I long to have a bout with him '. 
 
 487. In ais the ending is origi- 
 nally long, as it is a contrac- 
 tion of aiis . It is not permitted to 
 read quid ais here as an iamb (by 
 giving ais a monosyllabio pro- 
 nunciation}, as Plautus avoids 
 terminating an iambic trimeter 
 with two pure iambs. We 
 should therefore consider the 
 fifth foot of this line as an 
 
 488. The expression levior 
 quam pluma would appear to 
 have been proverbial ; conf. 
 Poen. in 6, 17 si quid bene 
 facias, levior pluma est gratia. 
 
 489. flagitium hominis (orig. 
 ' thou scandal of a fellow', i. e,), 
 ' thou scandalous fellow '. The 
 same expression occurs Cas. 11 
 2, 8. in 2, 22. Asin. 11 4, 67 
 and below v. 709. (See also 
 crit. note.) Just as flagitium ho- 
 minis =homo flagitiosus, Plau- 
 tus uses the analogous expres- 
 sions scelus viri=vir scelestus. 
 — (homo) minumi preti, 'aworth- 
 less fellow '. 
 
III. 2. 25 — 34.] MENAECHMEI. 63 
 
 490 quid de" te merui, qua me causa pe*rderes ? 25 
 
 quid surrupuisti' te* mihi dudum de* foro, 
 
 feclsti funus mdd absenti prandio ? 
 
 cur ausu's facere, quoii ego aeque here's eram ? 
 
 Me. adule"scens, quaeso, quid tibi mecumst rei, 
 495 qui mihi male dicas h6mini hie ignot6 sciens ? 30 
 
 an tibi malam rem vis pro male dictis dari ? 
 
 Pe. istam quidem edepol t6 dedisse intellego. 
 
 Me. respdnde, adulescens, quaeso, quid nomen tibist ? 
 
 Pe. etiam derides, quasi nomen non n6veris ? 
 
 Brix. The transposition is due - to the present editor. 491. at 
 mss. , quid Brix. 492. meo absenti mss., emended by Salmasius. 
 med absente B. 493. quoi ego adaeque B., ea quae heris heram mss. 
 The present reading seems to be due to Brix. 494. tibi nam B., 
 but nam ora. mss. 495. Plautus probably wrote or at least 
 pronounced maldieas. mihi qui male dicas sic h. i. sc. B. against 
 the mss. , which read however hie noto insciens in the conclusion of 
 the line. The reading of our text is due to Brix. 497. istam 
 Vahlen Bh. Mus. xvi 633, pax: earn B, post earn B. The ms. 
 reading arose from misreading the original pe (i. e. the name of 
 the speaker, Eeniculus) istam. 498. tibi nomen st mss., emended 
 by Weise. 499. nomen quasi non noverls B. against the mss. 
 
 490. 'Have I deserved this we find quoiei in the ancient 
 
 of you ?' qua causa is somewhat inscriptions, quoi aeque heres 
 
 negligently added after quid, eram means ' to which I had an 
 
 as we should rather expect equal claim '. 
 
 cur. 495. We should probably 
 
 492. For the expression pronounce maldieas : see my 
 funus fecisti prandio we should preface to the Trinummus, p. 
 compare the first conversation vii. — sciens ' wittingly ',=con- 
 of Menaechmus and the para- sulto. Menaechmus cannot but 
 site, above v. 154 sqq. — In assume that the parasite inten- 
 Ciceronian prose we should cer- tionally insults him, as he con- 
 tainly expect absente, as the siders himself to be unknown 
 
 ' ablative in -i wou^d be ad- to this stranger, 
 missible only in ease absens 496. malam rem = verbera. 
 is used as an adjective, and The parasite subsequently un- 
 not as a participle. But in derstands mala res as a defrau- 
 Plautus this distinction cannot dation of food, because he eon- 
 be admitted. For the whole ceives himself to have been ill- 
 subject see Biicheler, Lat. Decl. treated by being deprived of his 
 p. 52. share of the dinner. 
 
 493. quoii should be read in 498. For quid nomen tibi est 
 two syllable? . In this manner see our note on v. 341. 
 
64 MENAECHMEI. [III. 2. 35 — 48; 
 
 500 Me. non e"depol ego te, qu6d sciam, umquam ante 
 
 nunc diem ss 
 
 vidi neque noyi: verum certo, quisquis es, 
 
 aequ<5m si facias, mini odiosus ne* sies. 
 
 Pe. non me - novisti ? Me. n6n negem, si ndverim. 
 
 Pe. Menae"ehme, vigila. Me. vigilo hercle equidem, 
 
 quod sciam. 
 
 505 Pe. tu6m parasitum n6n novisti ? ME..n6n tibi « 
 
 sanum e'st, adulescens, sinciput, ut intellego. 
 
 Pe. resp6nde: surrupuistin uxori tuae 
 
 pallam istanc hodie atque edm dedisti Erotiot 
 
 Me. neque hercle ego uxorem Mbeo, neque ego 
 
 Er6tio 
 
 510 dedi nee pallam surrupui. Pe. satin sanus es ? 45 
 ****** 
 
 occisast haec res. n6n ego te indutum foras 
 exire vidi pallam? Me. vae capiti tuo. 
 
 501. certe Langen (Jahresber. 1 409). 502. si aequom B, emended 
 by Camerarius. 506. est mss., esse B. — sinciput intellego mss., 
 sincipitium intellego B. The addition of ut is due to Camerarius. 
 508. earn om. mss., added by E. 510. surpui E. after Bothe and 
 Brix, though the latter subsequently justly defended surrupui. 
 The gap after this line was first pointed out by Ladeswig. E. pro- 
 poses the following supplement — 
 
 profecto nisi ilium ut confiteatur fecero, 
 occisast haec res. < 
 
 500. quod sciam ' at least as stead of periit ; ' it is all over 
 
 far as I know'. So again v. with this affair'. Peniculus 
 
 504. believes that all his intercourse 
 
 502. ' Don't trouble me any with Menaechmus is at an end 
 
 further, whoever you are, if you unless he can make him ac- 
 
 desire to act honestly'. knowledge all their previous 
 
 504. vigila 'proinde ao si transactions. He is evidently 
 
 dicat: Menaechme,tu dormitas, afraid that Menaechmus means 
 
 aut tu somnias, hoc est, tu de- to 'cut' him altogether. For 
 
 sipis et deliras'^ Lamb. the phrase comp. Pseud. 1 5, 8 
 
 508. istanc=quam tuis ma- occisast' haec res', haeret hoe 
 
 nibus tenes. negotium. Capt. in 4, 7 bed- 
 
 610. For satin sd- see In- sast haec res, nisi reperio atro- 
 
 trod, to Aul. p. 36. cem mi aliquam astuiiam. 
 
 511. occisa est is a strong 513. ' Omnis putas cinaedos 
 
 and exaggerated expression in- [public dancers who appeared 
 
III. 2. 48 — 3. 1.] MENAECHMEI. 65 
 
 omnis cinaedos e*sse censes, tu quia's? 
 515 tun m6d indu-tum fuisse pallara prae'dicas ? 
 
 Pe. ego he*rcle vero. Me. n6n tu abis, quo dignus 
 
 es, 50 
 
 aut t6 piari hibes, homo insanlssume? 
 Pe. numquam e'depol quisquam me dxorabit, quia 
 
 tuae 
 ux6ri.rem omnem actlitum ut sit gesta, eloquar. 
 520 omne's in te istaec resident contumeliae. 
 
 faxo halid inultus prandium come'deris. 55 
 
 Me. quid hoc dst negoti ? satin, ut quemque c6n- 
 
 spicor, 
 ita me' ludificant ? sdd concrepuit ostium. 
 
 Ancilla. Menaechmvs II. 
 
 An. Menaechme, amare ait te multum Er6tium, III. 3. 
 
 514. quia tu es mss. , transposed by Camerarius. 515. med Bothe, 
 B. me mss. 517. iube mss., emended Jby Pylades. aut U tubes 
 piari B. after Guyet. 519. actutwm the present editor, iam mss. 
 ut siet gesta iloquar Brix against the mss. and introducing siet in 
 a wrong place ; ut sit gesta, ego iloquar B. likewise against the 
 mss. 521. inultus A, inultum the other mss. 524. te' ait B. 
 
 loosely dressed in a 'pallaj] id*' quam orando me faciet quin...' 
 
 est molles et impudicos esse, eloquar. See also Holtze, Synt. 
 
 quia tu es '. Lamb. Comp. also 11 177. 
 
 above, v. 143 and 198 sq. 520. istaec— istaece. Plautus 
 
 516. quo dignus es, sc. in uses in the plural of the femi- 
 malam rem. nine both haec and istaec. 
 
 517. For piari comp. v. 291 ; 522. satin=satisne, in the 
 • for the prosody of iubes see our sense of ' evidently'. — ut quem- 
 
 Introd. to the Aul. p. 39 sq. que conspicor ' as soon as I see 
 
 518. The sense is 'nobody a person '= units quisque quern 
 shall ever prevent me by the conspicor. As this implies the 
 strongest entreaties from telling ' notion of plurality ('all I see') 
 all this to your wife'. On ac- we find the verb in the plural 
 count of this general sense quin {ludificant v. 523). 
 
 has been employed in this sen- Act III. Sc.3. It is somewhat 
 
 tence. Comp. e.g. Mil. gl. 11 5, improbable that the servant 
 
 63 numquam quisquam faciet should now come out of the 
 
 quin soror ista sit germana house, after Menaechmus had 
 
 huius. Analogously we may left it a considerable time ago. 
 
 explain here numquam quis- But in a Comedy of Errors the 
 
 W. M. 
 
 r 
 
66 MENAECHMEI. [Ill; 3. 2 — 12. 
 
 525 ut hoc una opera idm ad aurificem deTeras, 
 atque hue ut addas auri pondo unam unciam 
 iube^sque spinter novom reconcinnarier. 
 Me. et isttic et aliud, si quid curarf volet, s 
 
 me curaturum dicito, quicquid volet. 
 530 An. scin, qu6d hoc sit spinter ? Me. ne'scio, nisi 
 aureum. 
 An. hoc e"st, quod olim cl&iculum ex armario 
 te surrupuisse aie"bas uxori tuae. 
 Me. numquam hercle factumst. An. n6n meministi, 
 te 6bsecro? 10 
 
 redde igitur spinter, si non meministi. Me. mane. 
 535 immo iquidem memini : ndmpe hoc est quod ill! 
 dedi. 
 
 after Bothe. 525. iam om. mss., added by E. 526. hue B., hunc 
 or nunc mss. unam om. msa. , added by B. , who subsequently 
 preferred ponclod, adopted by Biix. 528. istud mss., emended by 
 the Italian critics. 530. sit mss., est B. 532. aiebas the Aldine 
 edition, mebas mss. 533. te om. mss., added by B. 534, is 
 given by ub in accordance with the mss. B. omits spinter with 
 the Italian critics and adds minume at the beginning of the line. 
 536. istuc ubi iclae (or Mae) armillae sunt quas mss. , emended by 
 
 probability of each situation read noum with synizesis, 
 
 should not be examined too Comp. naus=navis above, 
 
 closely. 529. The words quicquid vo- 
 
 524. For amare we should let are properly speaking un- 
 supply se : ' Erotium sends necessary, but may be easily 
 word that she entreats you condoned to the conversational 
 earnestly'. For this sense of style. 
 
 amare we may compare v. 425 530. For sit Brix compares 
 
 above. Capt. in 5, 39 nunc scio quid 
 
 525. una opera ' at the same hoc sit negoti. Poen. v 4, 79 
 time' : in prose we should omit misera timeo quid hoc sit negoti, 
 opera. Compare note on eadem and above v. 384. In these 
 opera, v. 428. constructions the syntax of 
 
 527. spinter genus armil- Flautus agrees with the later 
 
 lae, quod mulieres antiqvae usage, in treating the interro- 
 
 gerere solebant bracchio summo gative sentence as a dependent 
 
 sinistro. Festus p. 333. See clause. 
 
 diet. — In novom we should 535. The words quod llli 
 
 either drop the final m and form an anapaest, 
 
 pronounce the word as 'two 536. For the omission' of 
 
 short syllables, or we should sunt see note on v. 280. — The 
 
III. 3. 13 — 21.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 67 
 
 An. isttic. Me. ubi illae armillae, quas und dedi ? 
 An. numquam dedisti. Me. nam pol cum hoc und 
 dedi. 
 
 * . — * — * # * * 
 
 An. dicam curare ? Me. dicito : curabitur. 15 
 
 540 et palla et spinter faxo referanttir simul. 
 ■"An. amabc-, mi Menaechme, inauris d£ mihi, i 
 
 faciunda pondo du6m nummum stalagmia : Y?^ 
 
 ut te - lubenter videam, quom ad nos veneris. 
 
 Me. fiat, cedo aurum : igo manupretium dabo. 20 
 545 An. da sddes aps ted : ego post reddider6 tibi. 
 
 Camerarins, who retains sunt, and Lambinus who assigned each 
 speaker the proper words. 538. cum om. mss., added by B. 
 The gap after this line was first pointed out by Ladewig. 540. 
 befehatub A, referantur the other mss. 542. fatiendas mss., 
 emended by Pylades. 544. aurum mi B., mi om. mss. It is 
 possible to read cedo aurum hue or to add tu after aurum. 545. te 
 post ego mss. E., comp. Jahrb. f. class. Phil. 1866 p. 49. Spengel, 
 
 ' overdoing' of the part Me- 
 naeohmus has now taken upon 
 himself produces a highly comic 
 effect. 
 
 537. hoc, together with the 
 bracelet. — After this line we 
 should assume that at least one 
 line has dropped out, in which 
 Menaechmus attempted to cor- 
 rect his mistake with regard to 
 the ' armillae'. 
 
 540. We should notice the. 
 ambiguity of the expression. 
 Menaechmus says 'depend upon 
 it, the cloak and the bracelet 
 shall be brought back at one 
 and the same time', — i.e. never. 
 
 541. amabo 'please'. The 
 addition of mi to the vocative 
 is likewise endearing. — inaures 
 ' ear-rings'. 
 
 542. stalagmium genus 
 inaurium videtur significare 
 Festus p. 317. The designation 
 is derived from <rra\ayii6s, com- 
 
 pare our own 'ear-drops' 
 
 duom should be pronounced as 
 a monosyllable by way of syni- 
 zesis.- 
 
 543. Compare the witty pas- 
 sage in the Asinaria i 3,. 31 
 sqc[. , in which a lover's endea- 
 vours to make himself a favour- 
 ite with all in his mistress' 
 house are eloquently described. 
 
 544. The hiatus in the cae- 
 sura of this iambic line is jus- 
 tifiable on account of the strong 
 punctuation. In the following 
 line it is not, therefore, abso- 
 lutely necessary to write ted, 
 though it is very probable that 
 Plautus employed this form 
 when it came in so usefully to 
 avoid a hiatus. 
 
 545. so des 'if you please'. 
 aps te ' out of your own means '. 
 The future perfect reddidero is 
 used in the sense of the simple 
 future. 
 
68 MENAECHMEI. [III. 3. 22—34. 
 
 Me. imm6 cedo aps ted: ego post tibi reddam 
 
 duplex. 
 An. non habeo. Me. at tu, quando habebis, turn 
 
 dato. i 
 
 An. numquid vis ? Me. haec me curaturum dicito, 
 ut, quantum possint, quique liceant/ veneant. 25 
 550 iamne a"biit intro ? £biit, operuit foris. 
 
 .di me" quidem omnes &diuvant, augent, amant. 
 sed quid ego cesso, dtim datur mi occ^sio 
 tempusque, abire ab his locis len6niis ? 
 proper^, Menaecbme : fe"r pedem, profer gradum. so 
 555 demam hanc coronam atque alriciam ad laevam 
 
 manum, 
 ut, si sequentur me, hie abiisse censeant. 
 ibo e"t conveniam servom, si poter<5, meum, . ,. 
 
 ut hade, quae bona dant di mihi, ex me idm sciat. 
 
 'Plautus' p. 9. 546. ted B. te mss. 549. possint mss., possit 
 Scioppius. 651. equidem mss., emended by Bothe. 554. profer 
 Brix, confer mss. 555. hanc om. mss., added by Nonius who 
 quotes these words p. 529. 556. si qui sequatur mss., ut si 
 sequentur Nonius. 558. sciat mss. , iam sciat Bentley and B. 
 
 547. The hiatus after habeo See my note on Aul. 119. — 
 is justified by the change of quique liceant ' and at the price 
 
 ers. they will fetch ', qui being the 
 
 548. numquid vis is the ablative used in the sense of 
 1 formula abeundi', as has been quanticumque. The verb ticere 
 observed before. The servant is here used in its neuter sense, 
 sees that nothing more is to for which see the diet. 
 
 be got from Menaechmus and 550. The hiatus after mtro 
 
 therefore takes her leave. is justified by the caesura and 
 
 549. This line is address- the punctuation. 
 
 ed to the spectators and not 554. proferre pedem or gra- 
 
 meant to be heard by the ser- dum is the proper expression of 
 
 ■vant.—qiiantum possint, sc. ve- 'hurrying forward', while con- 
 
 nire 'as soon as they can be feme (contollere) gradum may 
 
 sold', possint is the reading of only be used of 'approaching', 
 
 the mss., which has been un- or 'joining' a person. See 
 
 necessarily altered into possit. crit. note. 
 
70 
 
 MENA'ECHMEI. [IV. 1. 9 — 2. 6. 
 
 atque e'depol eccum ipse <5ptume rev6rtitur: 
 
 sed pallam non fert. Ma. quid ego nunc cum ill<5c 
 
 agam? , • 10 
 
 Pe. idem quod semper : male habeas. Ma. sic 
 
 censeo. 
 570 Pe. hue cdncedamus : e*x insidiis aucupa. » 
 
 Menaechmvs I. Mat'rona. Penicvlvs. 
 
 * Me. _ut h6c ujiinur maxume' more m6ro _IV 2. i 
 
 ^ jmol^stoque mdltum.^atque uti ( quilque sunt ^jp 
 
 Cptumi maxumi, mojrem_habent huric : clue'ntis 
 sibi omnis volunt esse multos : bonine an 
 niali^sint, id haud quaeritant. res magis 5 
 575 quaeritur/quam cluentum fides quoius modi 
 
 , mss. 567. ipse om. mss., added by Miiller Pros. p. 498 ; hue had 
 been inserted by E. 570. morum mss., moro Lipsius. 575. elien- 
 
 567. optume, ' most oppor- 
 tunely '. 
 
 569. male habere, 'ill-treat'; 
 the same phrase occurs Most. 
 Ill 2, 20. 
 
 670. Pretty much the same 
 expression occurs Asin. v 2, 31 
 aucupemus ex insidiis clanculum 
 quam rem gerant. 
 
 Act IV. Sc. n. 571—587 form 
 a canticum, i. e. a lyrical mono- 
 logue in varying metres. There 
 is great discrepancy between the 
 editors in arranging the metres 
 of this passage: but this ob- 
 servation applies alike to all the 
 cantica in the Plautine plays. 
 We have not even noted all 
 these discrepancies in our criti- 
 cal notes. 
 
 670. mos moms is repeatedly 
 found in Plautus ; compare 
 Trin. 669 mores moras et moro- 
 sos, with our note. A similar 
 
 paronomasia appears in Poen. 
 i 2, 166 novi ego Indus mores 
 morosos malos. 
 
 572. ' Precisely those who 
 are the richest and most re- 
 spected by their fellow-citizens, 
 have this foolish custom above 
 all the rest'.— ut quique sunt 
 optumi — quo quis est melior...eo 
 magis hwnc morem habet. — We 
 should observe that the circum- 
 stances treated in the present 
 passage belong to Boman, and 
 not to Greek life. This is very 
 frequently so in Plautus. 
 
 574. sint, clientes. — We 
 should supply the genitive 
 cluentum with res. The only 
 question is whether these clients 
 are rich, not whether they are 
 honest. 
 
 575. We should pronounce 
 quoismodi : see Introd. to Aul. 
 p. 63. 
 
IV. 2. 7—18.] 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 71 
 
 clueat. , si e*st pauper atque haud malus, nequam ha- 
 bjStur: sin dives malust, is clue'ns frugi habe'tur. 
 qui neque lege"s neqiiQ_aequom bonum usqulim 
 cblunt, 10 
 
 sollicitos patrdnos habent, 
 580 datum denegant, quod datumst : 
 
 litium pleni, rapaces, 
 
 viri fraudulenti, 
 
 qui .aut faenore aut periuflis 
 kabe'nt rem paratam.- mens est in querelis. is 
 585 iuris ubi dicitur dies, simul patronis dicitur : 
 
 [quippe qui pro illis loquantur, quae male fecerint:] 
 aut ad populum aut in iure aut ad iudic^m 
 rest. 
 
 tium mss. 576. si quist B. against the mss. 584. querellis E., 
 quo re lis B, in quo ire lis G. 585. iuris DFZ, uiris the other 
 mss. 586. ' interpretis verba esse Hermannus vidit, quamquam 
 iam in A lecta ' E. 587. aut at the beginning of the line is given 
 
 576. cluere, ' to be held in 
 (a certain) estimation ' 
 
 577. frugi=xpi>aT6s. 
 
 578. In aequum bonum we 
 may notice the omission of the 
 copula, so common in archaic 
 Latin when synonymous ex- 
 pressions are joined together. 
 
 581. litium pleni=litigiosi. 
 
 584. ' They possess a fortune 
 obtained by usury and perjury'. 
 It cannot, however, be denied 
 that in the present passage the 
 periphrastic expression habent 
 rem.paratam closely approaches 
 the sense of a simple perfect, 
 sibi rem paraverunt. — Accord- 
 ing to Lachmann's rule, we 
 ought to spell querella. But 
 Brambaeh (Lai Orthogr. p. 259) 
 shows that this is at variance 
 with the rules given by the 
 ancient grammarians them- 
 selves. We have, therefore, 
 restored the common spelling 
 
 querela. — For the expression 
 mens est in querelis, ' their 
 whole mind is devoted to their 
 quarrels ', see our note on Aul. 
 179. It is not strictly necessary 
 to take querela here in the 
 sense of a ' law-suit '. 
 
 585. The phrase iuris diem 
 
 dicere does not occur elsewhere, 
 
 ' but the technical expression 
 
 diem dicere may be presumed 
 
 to be well known. 
 
 587. rest — res est, a contrac- 
 tion found in a number of pas- 
 sages, res is here « a suit '. 
 This suit is transacted ad popu- 
 lum, in case it happens to be a 
 causa publica; it is conducted 
 in iure, when a causa privata 
 was decided by a magistrate, 
 i.e. commonly by the praetor; 
 and apud iudicem, when a causa 
 privata was pleaded before a 
 judge delegated by the praetor 
 or before arbitrators chosen by 
 
72 MENAECHMEI. [IV. 2. 20—30. 
 
 sicut me hodie nimis sollicitum cluens quidam 
 
 habuit, ndque quod volui 20 
 
 agere aut quicum vSlui licitumst: ita me attinuit, 
 
 ita detinuit. 
 590 apud aediles pro ems factis plurumisque pe'ssumis- 
 
 que ^^y j^> ■■' -^...'j*/^ 
 
 dixi causam : c6ndiciones tdtuli tortas, cdnfragosas. 25" 
 pltis minus, quam opus f&erat dicto, dixeram, ut 
 
 earn sponsio aA^ 
 c6ntrovorsiam finiret. quid ille ? quid ? praedem' 
 
 dedit. 
 ne'e magis manufeVtum ego hominem limquam ullum 
 
 tene'ri vidi : , ^t 
 
 595 dmnibus male Metis testes toe's aderant acerrumi.' 30 
 
 by all the mss. , but rejected by E. aut ad iudicem the mss. except 
 A, which has aut...aedilem. 589. auqui...mmcitumebt A, agere 
 quicum licitwm est the other mss. , emended by B. 590. aediles 
 mss., aedilem B. 591. detuli A. (not the other mss.) 592. aut 
 plus aut minus mss., emended by Pylades. — erat multo dixeram 
 controversiam | Vt sponsio fieret mss., emended by E. dixi, earn 
 controversiam | ut ne sponsio diferret Vahlen, Eh. Mus. xvi 634. 
 
 the parties themselves. (This Diet, of Antiq. 
 
 explanation was already given 592. plus minus, ' more or 
 
 by Lamb.) less '. The omission of the eo- 
 
 588. The expression is in- pula in this phrase is the rule, 
 tentionally the same as in v. — opus est dicto : ' opus est ' 
 579. — nimis, 'very'. — quod a- with the abl. of the passive 
 gere volui, prandium. participle is a very common 
 
 589. quicum, cum Erotio et construction in archaic lau- 
 parasito. guage ; see the instances given 
 
 590. For the aediles see the in my note on Ter. Andr. 490. 
 article in the Diet, of Antiqui- — The sense is, ' I had said as 
 ties. much as I could; I had pleaded ' 
 
 591. Observe the synizesis to the best of my power '. j -• 
 in c6ndici6nes. Menaeehmus 593. quid ille ? quid is a 
 had attempted to save his client phrase expressing surprise and 
 by proposing a sponsio with very indignation at the almost in- 
 hard and difficult conditions. credible stupidity of his client. 
 But his client is so foolish and 594. There is a hiatus in the 
 obstinate as to reject this ' sgon- caesura of this line, after homi- 
 sio', and to demand a proper nem. 
 
 law-suit. For the sponsio see 
 
IV. 2. 31 — 40.] MENAECHMEI. 73 
 
 di ilium 6mnes perdant : ita mi hunc optumum 
 
 h6die corrupit diem : 
 mefpie adeo, qui hodid forum umquam oculis in- 
 
 spexi meis. 
 ubi primum licitumst, ilico properavi abire de - 
 
 fbro. as 
 
 iussi adparari prandium : arnica exspectat me - , 
 
 scio : [\ 'm «*-» 
 600 iratast Credo nunc mini : placabit palla quam dedi. 
 [quam meae hodie uxori abstuli atque huic detuli 
 
 Erotio.] 
 Pe. quid ais ? Ma. Viro me malo male nuptam. 
 
 Pe. satin atidis quae illic ldquitur? 
 Ma. satis. Me. si sapiam, " hinc intro abeam, ubi 
 
 mihi bene sit. Pe. mane: male erit p6tius., 
 
 593. Mi qui mss. Me quid Camerarius. 596. mihi hunc hodie 
 corrumpit diem B, emended by Brix, who inserted optimum here, 
 comp. note on v. 599. 597. inspexi mss., defended by Liibbert 
 gramm. Stud, i p. 43 sq., inspexim E. 598 and 599 are given in 
 this order after the example of Brix, but in the inverse order by 
 the mss. and by B. 598. est licitum mss., licitum est Guyet. 
 599. diem corrupt optimum mss. before iussi. 601. rejected 
 by Yahlen, Bh. Mus. xvi 634. meae om. mss., added by B. huic 
 detuli mss., detuli huic B. 603. the gap was first pointed 
 out by Ladewig. In the following lines the original order has 
 been considerably disarranged by the copyists. The arrangement 
 of the mss. is indicated by the numbers placed on the right margin. 
 
 596. The metre changes, as citum est was in use side by 
 
 Menaechmus is now about to side with licuit. For this and 
 
 taUt of a new subject. — optumum analogous formations, see Kiih- 
 
 diem, a day od which I intended ner, Ausfiihrl. Gr. i p. 539. 
 
 to enjoy myself so very much. 601. This line is merely a 
 
 • 597. qui should not be elided. kind of amplification of the 
 
 — Though we should rather ex- second half of the preceding 
 
 pect inspexim, Plautus appears line, which is, however, suffi- 
 
 to have used the indicative in ciently clear by itself. 
 
 expressions like the present ; 602. For the pronunciation 
 
 comp. Bud. rv 5, 122 qui te di of virO see Introd. to Aul p. 
 
 omnes perdant, qui me hodie 19. — satin audis, ' do you hear 
 
 oculis vidisti meis, and ibid. distinctly enough ?' 
 
 140, ' sumne ego scelestus, qui 603. bene esse alicui, ' to en- 
 
 illunc hodie except vidulum. joy oneself ', especially in eat- 
 
 . 598. The passive perfect li- ing and drinking.— For mani 
 
c 
 
 74 MENAECHMEI. [IV. 2. 41 — 60. 
 
 ]y[ E> ****** 
 
 tristis admodumst; non mihi istuc sdtis placet. 
 
 sed cdnloquar. ss 
 
 05 die, mea uxor, " quid tibi aegrest ? Pe. be"llus blan- 
 
 ditur tibi. m 
 
 Me. potin ut mihi mole'stus ne sis? num te appello? 
 
 - Ma. aufe*r manum. u.-V* - '* * 
 
 aufer bine palp&tiones.Vpe'rgin tu ? Me. quid tu 
 
 mihi wj*T£**» 43 
 
 (^tristis es ? Ma. te scire oportet. Pe. scit. sed 
 
 dissimul&t malus. ' 44 
 
 Me. numquis servoruih deliquit? num ancillae aut 
 
 servi tibi V$P*~&"* 56 
 
 610 re*sponsant ? el6quere : impune non erit. Ma. mi-* 
 
 gas agis. 57 
 
 Me. c^rte familiarium aliquoi frata's ?. Ma. nugas 
 
 agis. 59 
 Me. num mihi es ir&ta saltern ? Ma. nunc tu 
 
 \ non nugas agis. „.-- 60 
 
 604. sed eonloquar is B.'s supplement ; the mss. read nugas agis 
 ' quod irrepsit e v.' 610 sq.' (B.) 609 servi Gruter, Ba seruet (i. e. 
 
 see Introd. to Aul. p. 25 sq.— —appellare, 'to address'. She 
 
 In the gap which has been means to say, ' I have, not spo- 
 
 marked ' after this line, Me- ken to you ; why then do you 
 
 naechmus may be supposed to' address me ? ' — For aufer, see 
 
 have expressed his surprise at my note on Aul. 630. Me- 
 
 seeing his wife and the parasite naechmus should be supposed 
 
 together. Bitschl supplies the to have laid his hand on his 
 
 following lines : — - wife's arm. or shoulder, 
 
 qufsnam hie loquitur ? quid ego 607. mihi is the so-called 
 
 video? me6 cum parasitd simul ' dativus ethicus ', signifying' 
 
 uxor eccam ante aedis astans Menaechmus' sympathy with' 
 
 mihi facit remellginem. his wife's ' tristitia '. 
 
 604. tristis, ' ill-humoured, 610. The servants ' answer 
 sullen '. back ' (as English ladies would 
 
 605. bellus is used ironi- express this kind of grievance).], 
 cally: 'that fine husband of — nugas agis, 'you speak no-* 
 yours '- thing but nonsense '. 
 
 606. potin ut, ' is it possible 611. The hiatus in the cae- 
 that'. — Comp. Merc, v 2, 49 sura (after aliquoi) is admissi- 
 potin ut animo sis tranquillo 1 ble. 
 
 Foen. iv 2, 94 potin ut taceas ? 612. es, ' thou art ', is in- 
 
IV. 2. 61 — 49.1 MENAECHMEL 75 
 
 Me. n6n edepol dellqui quicquam. Ma. em, r&sum 
 nunc nugas agis. 6i 
 
 Me. quid illuc estj uxdr, negoti? Ma. mdn rogas? 
 Me. vin hunc rogem ? ^.^ ^wn^W*-" 5 4a 
 
 615 quid negotist? Ma. pallam. Me. pallam? quid- 
 nam pallam ? Pe. quid paves ? . 45 
 (LMe. nil equidem^payed... nisi unum : palla pallorem 
 incutit. ^-*^» 46 
 
 Pe: At tu ne. clam me" oomessis prandium. perge 
 in virum, „',S *l 
 
 Me. non taces ? Pe. non h^rcle vero taceo. nutai 
 ne* loquar. 48 
 
 Me. n6n hercle ego quidem usquam quicquam 
 nuto neque nicto tibi. 49 
 
 keeuei). 613. hem B. against the mss. 615. quidam pallam B, 
 and bo E., quidnam pallam Brix. 617. dt ego, tu ne clam com- 
 essis B. against the mss. comesses mss., emended by Bothe. 
 
 variably long in the comic •wri- 
 ters. — saltern expresses the last 
 possibility ■which remains after 
 all the other questions have 
 been negatived. 
 
 613. rusum is a well-attested 
 form instead of rursum (i. e. re- 
 uorsum). 
 
 614. vin=visne. 
 
 615. quidnam pallam sc. com- 
 memoras. — Brix opines that the 
 verb pavere should be simply 
 understood of a certain hesi- 
 tating tone of voice, and con- 
 siders it impossible that any 
 facial expression should be de- 
 signated by this word. 'The 
 two Menaechmi', he says, 
 'were necessarily represented 
 by actors in masks'. But as 
 masks were not used on the 
 stage in the time of Flautus, 
 we do not agree with Brix's 
 view of this detail. Why should 
 not unmasked actors be able to 
 
 impersonate the two Menaech- 
 mi with just as much probabi- 
 lity ? Or are the pairs of bro- 
 thers in Shakspere's 'Comedy 
 of Errors ' on our own stage 
 performed by masked actors ? 
 
 616. The words nisi unum, 
 etc. are spoken aside. The jin- 
 gle in palla pallorem cannot be 
 successfully imitated in Eng- 
 lish. 
 
 617. comessis=comed(e)sis = 
 comederis, ' I'll teach you to eat 
 up the luncheon behind my 
 back '.—perge in virum, sc. in- 
 vehi. 
 
 618. »«tai(Menaechm'us),'he 
 nods to me ', is addressed to 
 the wife. 
 
 619. nutare means ' to nod ' 
 with the head, nictare ' to wink ' 
 with the eyes. Comp. the 
 charming line of Naevius : alii 
 adnutat, alii adnictat, alium 
 amat, alium tenet. 
 
76 
 
 MENAEGHMEI. [IV. 2. 51 — 64. 
 
 620 Pe. nihil hoc conftdtintius, qui, quad vides, ea 
 
 pernegat. % si 
 
 Me. pe"r Iovem deosque 6mnis adiuro; uxor, — satin 
 
 toe e"st tibi? — jj 
 
 me" isti non nutasse. Pe. credit iam tibi de isto:, 
 
 illuc redi.^^^ 
 Me. qu6 ego redeam ? Pe. ad phrjfgionem equi- 
 
 dem censeo. i, x pallam refer. 
 
 Me. quad istaecpallast? Pe. taceo iam : quando 
 
 hie rem nbn meminit suam. 55 
 
 625 Ma. clanculum te istadc flagitia f£cere censebas 
 
 potis ? • 41 
 
 /n6 illam ecastor fadnerato dbstulisti. sic datur. 40 
 
 [Pe. sic datur. properato apsente me" comesse pran- 
 
 ^-> dium : 64 
 
 620. confidentiust E. against the mss. 622. mei si non mss., emended 
 by Pylades. isto Bothe, istis mss, 623. egredeam $a, ego redeam 
 Bb, redeam alone B. eq 11 idem ad phrygionem mss., E.,' trans- 
 posed by Brix and Miiller Pros. p. 630. — i Gruter, et mss. (i.e. ei, 
 and so Brix). 624. hie Camerarius, hec mss. 625. potesse mss., 
 potis Lindemann, E. 626. In order to avoid the hiatus in the 
 oaesura, E. inserted mi (prop'osed by Fleckeisen), but subsequently 
 
 620. lioc, so. homine; 'it's 
 impossible to find a creature 
 with more assurance than this 
 fellow '. eonfidens is often used 
 in a bad sense. 
 
 621. deos should be pro- 
 nounced as a monosyllable, by 
 way of synizesis. 
 
 622. The parasite ironically 
 assures Menaechmus that his 
 wife believes him on this point 
 — which is quite irrelevant and 
 had therefore been all the more 
 emphasized by Menaechmus, 
 who desired to make a diversion 
 from the main point of inquiry. 
 
 623. redeam is used in its 
 metaphorical sense (' to return ' 
 to the main subject from a di- 
 gression) ; the parasite however 
 interprets it in .its natural sense 
 
 in saying ' yon had better go 
 back to the embroiderer's in 
 order to fetch the robe back'. — 
 The copula et is usually omitted 
 between i and another impera- 
 tive. 
 
 624. istaec, de qua tu lo- 
 queris. 
 
 625. potis esse =potesse, which 
 is actually here substituted in 
 the mss. , though it corrupts the 
 metre. — Observe the alliteration*' 
 in flagitia facere. 
 
 626. ne ' indeed' (used be- 
 fore a pronoun). — faenerato 
 ' with interest ' : comp. Asin. v 
 2, 52 ne ille ecastor faenerato 
 funditat. — For the phrase sic 
 datur see our note on v. 473. 
 
 627. In properato comesse we 
 should notice the perfect infini- 
 
IV. 2. 65 — 50.] MENAECHMEI. "\ 77 
 
 pdst ante aedis cum corona m6 derideto e*brius. 65 
 Me. neque edepol ego prandi neque hodie hue 
 
 intro tetuli pedem. 
 630 Pe. td negas? Ma nego he"rcle vero. Pe., nihil 
 
 hoc homine audacius. 
 n6n ego te modo hie ante aedis cum corona fl6rea .^ 
 vidi astare, qu6m negabas mihi esse sanum sinciput}**'' 
 e*t negabas me*" novkse, pe"regrinum aibas esse 
 
 te? -:• «A-% *^C \,_,« 70 
 
 ■--■- Me. quip ut dudum deVorti abs te, rddeo nunc 
 
 demum domum. 
 635 Pe. n6vi ego te. non mihi censebas dsse,. qui te 
 
 ulefscerer : 
 dmnia hercle ux6ri dixi. Me. quid dixisti ? Pe. 
 
 ne"scio. 
 eampse roga. Me. quid h6c est, uxor ? quidnam 
 
 hie narrayit tibi ? 
 quid id est ? quid tace's? quin dicis quid sit ? Ma. 
 
 quasi tu ndscias. 75 
 
 ne" ego ecastor mfclier mi sera. Me. quicZ tu mi- 
 sera's ? mi e'xpedi. 50 
 
 (N. PI. Exo. 1 p. 75) preferred feneratod. 628. coronam deri deto 
 Ba, emended by Bb and Camerarius. 630. tun E. with, the mss., 
 corrected by Brix, who compares v. 822. — audaciust E. against the 
 mss. 633. aibas Bothe, aiebas (or alebas) the mss. 637. eamplus 
 
 tive instead of the present. infinitive sentence is frequently 
 
 This is very common with velle, omitted, and especially in those 
 
 but rare with other verbs. See cases in which the subject is 
 
 Holtze Synt. 11 p. 80, whose easily understood, 
 
 observations, are, however, 634. ut is used in a temporal 
 
 somewhat superficial. sense =postquam. 
 
 630. tu negas ' do you ac- 635. You thought meanly of 
 
 tually~denyit?' — For the second me, as if I could not devise 
 
 half of the line comp. above some means of revenging my- 
 
 v. 620. self upon you. {qui is the abla- 
 
 633. In prose we should tive=gaa re or ratione.) 
 
 have to add te to the infinitive 637. For rdgS. see Introd.'to 
 
 dependent on negabas. In the Aul. p. 24. 
 
 somewhat negligent style of the 639. As Brix observes, the 
 
 comic writers the subject of an omission of sum is anything but 
 
78 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [IV. 2. 77— 82.. 
 
 640 Ma. me" rogas ? Me. pol haud rogem te, si sciam. 
 
 Ee. o homin^in malum : n 
 
 ut dissimulat. n<5n potes celare : rem novit probe: 
 omnia hercle ego e"dictavi. Me. quid id est ? Ma. 
 
 quando nil pudet 
 ne"que vis tua voluntate ipse pr6fiteri, audi atque 
 
 ades. so 
 
 4t quid tristis sim e"t quid hie mihi dfxerit, fax6 
 
 scias. 
 645 palla mihist dom6 surrupta. Me. palla surruptast 
 
 mihi ? 
 
 Ba, eampse E. See L. Miiller, de re metr. p. 304. 639. qui mss. , 
 quid Brix, whose note we have reproduced. — After this line the 
 mss. place v. 645, which was first removed to its present place by 
 Acidalius. 641. novit Acidalius, novi mss. 643. at que hUc ades 
 B. against the mss. See the note on the prosody of o in profiteH. 
 644. sim om. mss., added byLambinus (whom B. follows). 646. 
 
 scarce in exclamations, in 
 which a pronoun is used. He 
 quotes Stioh. i 2, 25 (according 
 to the reading of the palim- 
 psest), Amph. prol. 56, in 3, 9. 
 Merc, v 2, 79. Ter. Hec. iv 1, 
 49. — quid has been restored by 
 Brix in accordance with the 
 constant usage of Plautns. He 
 compares v. 644, 779, 811 in 
 the present play; Cas. m 5, 11 
 quid timida es ? Men. 615 
 quid paves ? Cist, i 1, 56 quid 
 te tarn abhorret hilaritudo? 
 Bud. ii 3, 66 id misera maesta 
 est. Stich. 1 1, 34 an id doles I 
 Pers. ii 1, 9 id tuos scatet ani- 
 mus. Epid. ii 2, 8 id ego excru- 
 cior. Mil. gl. iv 2, 7b~quid 
 Mam miseram animi excrucias ? 
 
 641. novit, uxor tua. 
 
 642. edictare is used by 
 Plautus in three passages in the 
 sense of a simple edicere. It 
 appears, however, to be con- 
 fined to archaic Latin. 
 
 643. tua (monosyllabic by 
 
 way of synizesis) vohmtate= 
 tua sponte. — profiteri is read 
 here and (perhaps) Capt. 480, 
 but Terence has prSfiteri Eun. j 
 prol. 3. Both Plautus and 
 Terence have protervos (Amph. J 
 837. Bacch. 612. Hec. 603), 1 
 while later poets use the first *i 
 syllable short. In the same 
 way Plautus and Terence have 
 prologus in spite of the Greek 
 rpaXoyos. So also propola and 
 propinare alongside of irpoiitiiKiis 
 and irpowlvew : Juvenal and 
 Martial, however, have prSpino. 
 See my note on Ter. Andr. 
 prol. 5. Bitschl, Neue Flauti- 
 
 nische Exc. i p. 64 ades ' be 
 
 attentive': comp. Ter. Andr. 
 prol. 24. Phorm. prol. 30. 
 Brix aptly compares Merc, iii 
 3, 7 prim hoc ausculta atque 
 ades. 
 
 645. ' Dixerat Menaechmi 
 uxor Pallast mihi domo sur- 
 repta : Menaechmus uxorem 
 illudens et omni ratione furtum 
 
IV. 2. 83—92.] MENAECHMEr. 79 
 
 Pe. viden ut te scele'stus captat ? huic surruptast, 
 
 n6n tibi : 
 .nam profecto tibi surrupta si e*sset, salra, nunc 
 
 foret. 
 Me. nil mihi tecumst. se"d tu quid ais ? MA. palla, 
 
 inquam, periit domo. 85 
 
 Me. quis earn surrupuit ? Ma. pol istuc ille seit 
 
 qui illam &pstulit. 
 650 Me. quis is homost ? Ma. Menae'chmus quidam. 
 
 Me. e'depol factum nequiter. 
 quis is Menaecbmust 1 Ma. tu istic, inquam. Me. 
 
 egone ? Ma. tu. Me. quis arguit ? 
 Ma. egomet. Pe. et ego: atque buic amicae de - - 
 
 tulisti Er6tio. 
 Me. egon dedi? Pe.J;u, tu istic, inquam. vin ad- 
 
 ferri ndctuam, s*"^ go 
 
 quad tu tu usque dicat tibi ? nam n<5s iam defessi 
 
 sumus. 
 655 Me. per Iovem deosque dmnis adiuro, uxor, — satin 
 
 hoc e"st tibi? — 
 
 vident (or viden) ut mss., emended by Lambinus ; viden ted ut B. 
 capiat mss., emended by Camerarkis. 647. nunc Camerarius, rum 
 
 a se factum infitiari studens, low are spoken to the wife. 
 denique quid uxor dicat se in- 650. Brix's correction is (in- 
 
 tellegere dissimulans, uxoris stead of hie given by the mss.) 
 
 verba iterans, quaerit ab uxore, is supported by the analogous 
 
 an palla sibi surrepta'. Lamb. passages Cure, rv 4, 25. v 2, 62. 
 
 Compare also our note on Aul. — edepol factum nequiter should 
 
 627. be considered as a kind of ex- 
 
 646. captare ' try to catch clamation, whence also the 
 some one' by ambiguous ex- omission of the copula est. 
 pressions. Compare the adj. 651. The hiatus after in- 
 eaptiosus. — huic, uxori tuae. quam is justified by the change 
 
 647. ' If the cloak had been of speakers and the caesura. — 
 snatched out of your hands, it arguit is the present, not the 
 would be safe now '. perf . 
 
 648. nil mihi tecumst (se. 652. huic amicae 'to your 
 ret or negoti) 'I have no busi- mistress here', huic being in- 
 ness with you'. These words terpreted by a gesture, 
 
 are of course addressed to the 655. Por the pronunciation 
 
 parasite, while those which fol- of deosque comp. v. 621 above. 
 
80 MENAECHMEI. [IV. 2. 93—102. 
 
 n6n dedisse. Pe. immo he^cle vero nos, non falsum 
 
 dicere. 
 / Me. sdd-ego illam non c6ndonavi, s&l sic utend&ni 
 
 dedi. r (,.-l. 
 
 Ma. e"quidem ecastor tuam nee cnlamydem d6 foras 
 
 nee pallium 95 
 
 quofquam utendum. mulierem aequomst vestimen- 
 
 tum muliebre 
 660 dare foras, virum virile, quin refers pallam domum ? 
 Me. ego faxo refere"tur. Ma. ex re tua, ut opinor, 
 
 £e"ceris : 
 nam domum numquam hddie intro ibis, nisi feres 
 
 pallam simul. i 
 
 e6 domum. Pe. quid mihi futurumst, qui tibi hanc 
 
 operam dedi ? 100 
 
 Ma. dpera reddetur, quando quid tibi erit surruptlim 
 
 domo. 
 665 Pe. id quid em edepol numquam erit : nam nihil est, 
 
 quod perdam, domi. 
 
 mss. 650. is Brix, hie mss. E. 659. utimdumB, against the mss. 
 662. hodie om. mss., added by JTleckeisen and E., though the 
 latter subsequently preferred introd, in order to avoid the hiatus. 
 
 '656. In prose : me non de- 658. foras. dare 'to put out' 
 disse. Analogously we should =' to lend out of the house', 
 supply a second nos in the in- 660. quin refers =refer. 
 finitive sentence in Peniculus' 661. ex re tua ' Jo your ad- 
 answer. , vantage', i.e. 'I would advise 
 
 657. condonare ' to make a you to do so '. 
 
 present for good'. — sic 'cum 663. The words quid mihi 
 
 gestu ahquo pronuntiandum ' futurumst are justly explained 
 
 (Lamb.), i.e. with a gesture ex- by Lambinus : ' quid mihi pre- 
 
 pressing a certain carelessness. tii aut mercedis persolvetar, "■ 
 
 We should suppose that Me- qui tibi viri tui furtum indi-< 
 
 naechmus cannot at once hit cavi'. The sense of the phrase 
 
 upon the appropriate expression, would be considerably altered 
 
 and sic fills up a pause during by introducing the ablative me 
 
 which he hesitates. — utendam Instead of the dative: comp. 
 
 dare ' to lend ', utendam rogare our note on Trin. 157; 
 'to borrow'. See note on AuL 96. 
 
IV. 2. 103— 111.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 81 
 
 qua virum qua uxorem di vos perdant. properabo 
 
 £d forum: ;« U >• 
 
 nam e"x hac familii me plane excidisse intellego. 
 Me. male mi uxor sese - fecisse censet, quom exclusit 
 
 foras : ' 105 
 
 qu&si non habeam, quo Intro mittar, alium meliorem 
 
 . locum. 
 
 70 si tibi displice6, patiundum : at placuero huic Erotio, 
 
 quae* me non excludet ab se, se\l apud se occlude"t 
 
 domi. 
 nunc ibb : orabo ut mihi pallam re*ddat, quam dudum 
 
 dedi. ■ 1 
 
 aliam illi redimam meliorem. heus, Acquis hie est 
 
 ianitor? 110 
 
 dperite atque Erotium aliquis"eVocate ante <5stium. 
 
 666. cum viro cum uxore mss. , emended by Fleckeisen. quom virum 
 turn uxorem B. 670. patiundumst (without ac) B. against the mss. 
 
 666. For qua — qua compare 
 Trin. 1044. Further instances 
 from Plautus (Mil. gl. rv 3, 20. 
 iv 9, 15. Asin. 1 1, 83) and 
 other authors (Cicero, Pliny 
 etc.) are given by Pareus Lex. 
 PI. p. 381, and Lex. Crit. p. 
 1099. 
 
 . 667. The hiatus after plane 
 may be justified by the cae- 
 sura. 
 
 668. excludere (diroic\eLeti>) 
 was the technical term of a 
 mistress refusing admittance to 
 her lover. See our note on 
 Ter. Andr. 386. 
 
 670. tibi^uxori. The first 
 part of the sentence is pro- 
 nounced with a gesture towards 
 Menaechmus' own house, into 
 which his wife has meanwhile 
 retreated. — patiundum implies 
 
 a certain ironical resignation on 
 Menaechmus' part. He says 
 ' I must just bear it ', meaning 
 that after all it is not so diffi- 
 cult to bear. — placuero instead 
 of placebo. 
 
 671. Erotium will be rather 
 afraid of losing Menaechmus, 
 who is such a good — customer. 
 
 674. Comp. Ter. Ad. 634 
 aperite aliquis actutum ostium 
 with our note. In these pas- 
 sages we should consider ali- 
 quis as an additional insertion 
 by way of parenthesis, as if it 
 were ' call her out — some one of 
 you — to the door'. — We need 
 not ask, why does not Menaech- 
 mus go into the house at once ? 
 The stage arrangements obliged 
 the poet to let all events take 
 place in the street. 
 
 W. M. 
 
82 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [IV. 3. 1 — 6. 
 
 — 1 — Erotivm. MENAECHMVS I. 
 
 675 Ek. quis hie me quaerit ? Me. sibi inimicus magis 
 
 quist quarn aetati tuae. IV 3'. 
 
 Er. mi Menaechme, cur ante aedis astas ? sequere 
 
 intrd. Me. mane, 
 scin quid est, quod ego ad te venio ? Er. scio, ut 
 
 tibi ex me sit volup. 
 Me. immo edepol pallam illam, amabo te', quam tibi 
 
 dudum dedi, ' 
 
 mibi earn redde : ux6r rescivit rem 6mnem, ut fac- 
 
 tumst, 6rdine. 5 
 
 680 ego tibi redimam bis tanto pluris pallam, quam 
 
 voles. 
 
 675. me hie R. against the mss. — quist om. mss. , added by B. 
 677. tibi ex me ut R. against the mss. — voluptas mss. , emended $>y 
 Pylades. 680. quam mss. R., quam Brix. 681. ferres mss., de- 
 more primitive form instead c' 
 the derivative volup-tas, whiu| 
 
 Act IV., Sc. in. 675. aetas 
 (= aevitas) is often used in the 
 mere sense of life ; hence aetas 
 tua is an emphatic expression 
 instead of tu. Compare Capt. 
 rv 2, 105 vae aetati (other read- 
 ing vitae) tuae ; the same phrase 
 Tecnrs Stich. iv 2, i&. So also 
 Rud. II 3, 44 vae capiti atque 
 aetati tuae. In Pseud. 1 1, 109 
 in te nunc omnes spes sunt 
 aetati meae the sense is clearly 
 represented by a simple mihi. 
 So also Bacch. n 3, 121 hie 
 nostra agetur aetas in malacum 
 modum ' we shall lead a life full 
 of pleasures'. (Pareus, Lex. 
 Crit. p. 56, who quotes from 
 Propertius i 2, hie tu semper 
 eris nostrae gratissima vitae 
 =mihi). 
 
 v 677. quod = propter quod, 
 very common in Plautus. (Pa- 
 reus, Lex. PI. p. 595.) — volup 
 appears in fifteen passages in 
 Plautus; it is an earlier and 
 
 is exclusively employed in clas- 
 sical Latin. See Ritschl, Opus* 
 ii 450 — 452. For the connexion 
 between this word and th'i' 
 Greek IXtt-u (=FAirw, com™ 
 %-o\ir-a) see G. Curtius, EtJ| 
 mol. p. 264 (fourth edition). ~ 
 
 679. ordine, ut factumst: 
 comp. Ter. Eun. 970 tu isti 
 narra omne ordine, ut factum 
 siet. Other instances (Capt. n 
 
 3, 17. Pseud, v 2, 15. Rud.w 
 
 4, 111, &c.) are given by Parens, 
 Lex. PI. p. 322. The construc- 
 tion rem ut factumst is some- 
 what negligent (instead of foe- 
 tost} : see our note on Aul. 763. 
 
 680. quam voles =quamcun- 
 que voles. There is not the 
 slightest ground for Brix's read- 
 ing quom. Menaechmus means 
 to say ' I will buy any robe you 
 please ' — i. e. you may choose it 
 quite to suit your own fancy.— 
 
IV. 3. 7 — 15.] MENAECHMEI. 83 
 
 Ee. tibi dedi equidem illam, id phrygionem lit M~ 
 
 ferres, paul6 prius, , 
 et illud spinter, lit ad aurificem ferres, ut fiere"t 
 
 novom. 
 Me. mihi tu ut dederis pallam et spinter? num- 
 
 quam factum reperies. 
 nam ego quidem postquam illam dudum tibi dedi 
 
 atque abii £d forum, 10 
 
 685 nunc redeo, nunc te" postillac video. Ee. video, quam 
 
 rem agis: <>_,. 
 
 quae" conmisi, ut me" defrudes, ad earn rem adfectas 
 
 viam. 
 Me. ndque edepol te delrudandi causa posco : quin 
 
 tibi 
 dieo uxorem r&civisse. Er. ne'e te ultro oravi Ut 
 
 dares : 
 ttite ultro ad me de*tulisti, dddisti earn dond mihi : is 
 
 ferres Fleckeisen. dedi equidem illanc, dd phrygionem ut ferres, 
 tibi paultS prius B. 683. mihi ut tu B, mihi tu ut the other mss., 
 and bo E. — repereris E. (but it ought to be reppereris, which would 
 ruin the metre), releceris B., reperies Priscian, who quotes this 
 line v p. 646. 686. quae Bothe, quia mss. 689. dono mi hi dedis U 
 
 tantum should be almost eon- rem agis ' I see what you are 
 
 sidered as a noun; bis tanto driving at'; comp. Aul. 566 
 
 pluris palla means ' a robe scio quam rem agat : ut me de- 
 
 twiee as dear as the other'. ponat vivo, earn adfectat viam, 
 
 682. ut fieret novom=ut re- where see our note. 
 novaretur. 686. defrudare is a well- 
 
 683. The question with ut attested form instead of de- 
 expresses surprise at a very fraudare. Comp. the adverb 
 extravagant or false assertion. frustra =frust(e)ra, from frus 
 See the examples collected by =fraus. — The construction is 
 Holtze, Synt. n p. 165. — As ad earn rem viam adfectas (==eo 
 Brix observes, the same termi- tendis) ut me (eis) defrudes quae 
 nation of a line as here (mim- (tibi) commisi. 
 
 quam factum reperies) occurs 688. Erotium intentionally 
 
 Poen. in 5, 17. commences her reply with the 
 
 685. postillac ' since that same nee as Menaechmus, ^as 
 
 time ', a well-attested Plautine it were to parody his words, 
 
 form instead of postilla. See 689. For dedlsti see Introd. 
 
 Eitschl, Opusc. n 270, and to Aul. p. 56. 
 compare posthac. — video quam 
 
 3—2 
 
84 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [IV. 3. 16 — 24 
 
 690 eandem nunc repdscis. patiar : tibi habeto, aufer : 
 
 litere '- ' 
 
 vel tu, vel tua uxor, vel etiam fn loculos'conpingitef. 
 tu hue post hunc diem pedem intro n6n feres," ne 
 
 frustra sis: jj^ <.--- ''' 
 quando tu nie be'ne merentem tibi babes despicatui. 
 nisi feres argentum, frustra ? s : me" ductare n6h potes. 20 
 695 aliam posthac invenito, quam habeas frustratui. 
 Me. nimis iracunde- heVcle tandem, heus tu, tibi 
 
 dico, mane. 
 re*di. etiamne astas ? etiam audes me£ revorti gratia? 
 £biit intro, occlusit aedis. nunc ego sum exclusis- 
 
 sumus : 
 
 earn B. against the mss. 690. habe mss., habeto B. 691. ocuIob 
 mss., loculos Balbaeh. 692. diSm, ne frustra sis, pedem intro rum 
 feres E. against the mss. The ms. reading has been justly de- 
 fended by Brix. 694. frustra me ductare mss. , emended by E. 
 697. rediet iamne astes etiam B, emended by Acidalius, redi. etidi 
 
 690. patiar is pretty much 
 the same as Menaechmus' own 
 patiundum v. 670. Erotium 
 means to say that it is not in her 
 power to resist the injury she 
 imagines herself to suffer at 
 Menaechmus' hands, but that 
 she will not forget it for all 
 that. 
 
 691. Comp. Hor. Bp. 11 1, 
 175 in laculos demittere gestit. 
 
 692. The final a in frustra 
 (though of ablatival origin) is 
 always short in Plautus, but 
 retains its legitimate quantity 
 in other authors. — frustra esse 
 often = decipi; frustra habere (ali- 
 quem) = decipere, frustrari. Nu- 
 merous instances are given by 
 Pareus, Lex. Crit. p. 506. 
 
 693. despicatui habere=de- 
 epectam habere, ' hold in con- 
 tempt ' ; not a Ciceronian 
 phrase. Compare frustratui ha- 
 bere v. 695. 
 
 694. ductare =cireumvenire; 
 comp. ductare chilis Capt. m 4, 
 109 ; 5, 67. Erotium insinuates 
 that Menaechmus intended to 
 swindle her out of the enter- 
 tainment without paying or 
 leaving her any other equiva- 
 lent. The next time he comes 
 she will grant him all such 
 things only for ready money. 
 
 695. The hiatus in qudm 
 habe is legitimate ; see Introd. 
 to Aul. p. 68. — With theBe words 
 Erotium goes into her house. 
 
 697. etiamne astas, 'won't 
 you stand still yet a minute ? ' 
 — For audere see note on Aul. 
 46. Trin. 244. — mea gratia, 'for 
 my sake '. 
 
 698. The superlative exclu- 
 sissimus seems to ocour only 
 here and is, of course, merely 
 a -comical formation inadmissi- 
 ble in a serious prose-style. See 
 the collection of analogous form- 
 
IV. 3. 25 — V.l. 10.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 85 
 
 ndque domi neque apud amicam mihi iam quidquam 
 creditur. . 25 
 
 700 ibo et consulam hanc rem amicos, quid faciundum 
 ce"nseant. 
 
 Menaechmvs II. 'Matrona. 
 
 Me. nimis stulte dudum fe"ci, quom marsuppium V 1. 
 
 Messenioni cum argento concrddidi. 
 
 inme'rsit aliquo se"se credo in ganeum. V i 
 
 Ma., provisam, quam mox vir meus redeat domum. 
 705 sed eccum video : salva sum, pallam refert. 5 
 
 Me. demiror, ubi nunc ambulet Messenio. 
 
 Ma. adibo atque hominem accipiam quibus dictis 
 meret. 
 
 non te" pudet prodire in conspecttim meum, 
 
 bominis flagitium, cum istoc ornatii ? Me. quid est ? 
 710 quae t6 res agitat, mulier ? Ma. etiamne, inpudens, w 
 
 astas 1 etiamne audes E. 707. aeret Ba and the other mss., meret 
 Nonius (maeret Bb). 709. flagitium hominis mss. (comp. v. 489), 
 transposed by the present Editor. 710. res te agitat mss., res ted 
 
 ations in Kuhner's AusfiihrL Gr. 
 I p. 363. 
 
 700. Menaechnms is at the 
 end of his wits, and therefore 
 determines to lay the whole 
 business before his friends and 
 be advised by them. This is, 
 of course, a contrivance to clear 
 the stage for the other Me- 
 1 naechmus. 
 
 Act V. Sc. i. Menaechmus of 
 Syracuse returns with the robe 
 he had received from Erotium. 
 The wife of his twin-brother 
 joins him and mistakes him for 
 her husband whom she fancies 
 to have come back with the 
 robe he had stolen from her. 
 This he denies, and declares 
 that he does not know her. She 
 considers this as the greatest 
 
 insult of all, and goes to call 
 her father. 
 
 702. The molossus cum ar- 
 gents may be defended by ana- 
 logous instances in FlautuB. 
 
 704. provisam, 'I'll come 
 out to see'. — quam mox, 'how 
 soon '=' if he does not soon '. 
 
 706. ambulare is used of 
 strolling about in the streets. 
 
 707. 'I'll give (bid) him wel- 
 come with such words as he 
 deserves'. Comp. also Aul. 
 622. 
 
 709. For the expression ho- 
 minis flagitium compare note on 
 v. 489. 
 
 710. Comp. Aul. 623 quae te 
 mala crux agitat. 634 laruae 
 hunc atque intemperiae insani- 
 aeque agitant senem. The same 
 
86 MENAECHMEI. [V. 1. 11 — 20. 
 
 muttire verbum uiura audes aut meclim loqui? 
 ■ Me. quid tandem admisi ia me, tit loqui non audeam ? 
 
 Ma. rogas me ? o bominis inpudentem audaciam. 
 
 Me. non tu scis, jnulier, He'cubam quaproptdr canem 
 715 Graii e'sse praedic&bant ? Ma. non equide'm scio. 15 
 
 Me. quia id dm faciebat He'cuba, quod tu nunc facis, 
 
 omnia mala ingere'bat,-/ quemquem aspe'xeraj; : 
 
 itaque adeo iure codpta appellarist canes. 
 
 Ma. non 6go istaec tua flagitia possum peYpeti: 
 720 nam me'd aetatem viduam hie esse mavelim, 20 
 
 agitat E., te res Brix. 713. om. mas., added by Pyladeg. hem's. 
 719. tua om. mss., added by E. It would also be possible to write 
 non istaec ego flagitia. as Pylades did. 720. meam med E. against 
 
 phrase as here occurs Cure. 1 1, 
 92 quae te res agitant ? Merc. 
 1 2, 24 quae te res malae agi- 
 tant ? The metaphorical use of 
 this word will be understood by 
 comparing Cic. Leg. 1 14, 42 cos 
 agitant insectanturque Furiae, 
 non ardentibus taedis, sicut in 
 fabulis, sed angore conscientiae 
 fraudisque cruciatu. 
 , 713. Comp. Ter. Haut. 313, 
 where the very same words are 
 used as an indignant exclama- 
 tion. 
 
 714. non=nonne (which is 
 not used by PI.).- — Hecubam pu- 
 tant propter animi acerbitatem 
 quandam et rabiem flngi in 
 canem esse conversam. Cic. 
 Tusc. m 26, 65 (quoted by 
 Lamb.). 
 
 715. Graii = ol frpxeuot itce?- 
 vot "EXX^xes, with a certain ad- 
 mixture of reverence and ad- 
 miration ; Graeculus is a con- 
 temptuous appellation (comp. 
 Juvenal's Graeculus esurient in 
 caelum, iusseris, ibit) ; Graecus 
 is an indifferent and merely 
 geographical term. 
 
 717. For omnia see the in- 
 
 stances collected in our note on 
 Aul. 137. — ingerere mala, 'to 
 heap abuse' on some one: 
 comp. Bacch. rv 8, 34 ut tibi 
 mala multa ingeram. Pseud. 1 
 3, 135 inger ei mala multa. 
 Asin. v 2, 77 dicta in me in- 
 gerebas. — quemquem = quemcun- 
 que is not at all scarce. In 
 such a phrase as the present, 
 Plautus might also say ut quern- 
 que aspexerat. 
 
 718. canes is the archaic 
 form of the nominative (com- 
 pare volpes, feles) : see our note 
 on Trin. 170. 
 
 720. aetatem, 'my whole life, 
 as long as I live ' : comp. Eun. 
 734, Haut. 716, Hec. 747 with 
 our notes ; in Plautus this ac- 
 cusative, which is used quite 
 adverbially, occurs Asin. 1 1, 6 ; 
 n 2, 8. 18; Amph. iv 2, 3; 
 Cure, iv 3, 22; Poen. in 3, 23; 
 Pseud. 1 5, 100. Pareus (from 
 whom we derive these passages, 
 Lex. PI. p. 20) justly explains 
 aetatem by the Greek dia /Sfou. — 
 vidua may also be used of a 
 wife divorced from her husband, 
 see note on v. 113. 
 
V. 1. 21 — 37.] MENAECHMEI. 87 
 
 quam istadc flagitia tua pati, quae tu facis. 
 Me. quid id ad me, tu te niiptam possis peVpeti, 
 ail sis abitura a tuo viro ? au mos hie itast, 
 peregrino ut advenienti narrent fabulas ? 
 
 725 Ma. quas fabulas ? non, inquam, patiar prae'terhac, 25 
 quin vidua vivam, quam tuos mores pe"rferani. 
 .•-'' Me. mea quidem hercle cadsa vidua vivito 
 
 r " vel lisque dum regnum dptinebit Iuppiter. 
 
 Ma. ne istue meeastor i&m patrem aecersam meum 34 
 
 730 atque ei narrabo tua flagitia quad facis. 35 
 
 i, Decio, quaere metim patrem, teclim simul 36 
 
 ut veniat ad me : ita re"m natam esse dicito. 37 
 
 the mss. hie om. mss., added by Brix. 721. rejected by B., who 
 says ' baud dubie eonfictus e v. 719. 730. 733.' 722. tun B. after 
 
 m i 
 
 Bothe, tu mss. 723. annos ita est hoc B, emended by Bothe. 
 726. tuos mss., istos B. most arbitrarily. 729 — 742. The ms. order 
 of these bines is indicated by the numbers placed in the right margin. 
 . The present arrangement is due to Ladewig and Fleckeisen. 731. 
 ei B (retained by Brix), i Camerarius, B. 732. natam om. mss., 
 
 721. It is quite conformable ent on the verb with the nega- 
 to the habit of excited speakers tion, which is in its general 
 to repeat an assertion they have sense equivalent to nemo me im- 
 just made in nearly the same pedire potent quin [potius) vi- 
 terms. vam etc. — tuos mores perferam, 
 
 722. quid id ad me, sc. atti- ' put up any longer with your 
 net, 'what's that to me?' Comp. behaviour'. 
 
 Poen. v 2, 61 quid istue ad 727. mea causa, ' as far as I 
 
 me ? Pers. rv 3, 27 hoc quid ad am concerned ', comp. below, v. 
 
 met 1029. 
 
 724. fabulae, ' gossip '- 728. vel usque dum, ' even 
 726. quam should be con- as long as '. ' Vel eo usque dum 
 ceived dependent on a potius regnabit Iuppiter, hoc est ae- 
 whioh is to be supplied in the ternum '. Lamb. 
 preceding words. This ellipsis 729. istue = propter istue, 
 is not unexampled in Flautus : quod tu dicis. 
 see Parens, Lex. PI. p. 515 (s.v. 731. quaere means 'find' or 
 potius), though some of the in- ' look up my father ', the sen- 
 stances quoted by him admit of tence with ut being dependent 
 
 a different explanation The on the notion of 'asking' which 
 
 Words non patiar quin mean ' I is merely implied and not dis- 
 shall not bear it any longer so tinctly expressed, Brix com- 
 as not to % quin being depend- pares an analogous passage in 
 
88 MENAECHMEI. [V. 1. 38^-44. 
 
 _ iam ego aperiam istaec tua fiagitia. Me. sanan es ? ss 
 
 ' quae me'a fiagitia ? Ma. pallas atque aurum meum 39 
 
 735 dom6 suppilas M tuae uxori 6t tuae 1 '-, to 
 
 degeris amicae. satin haec recte fabulor? J -~ 41 
 
 Me. heu, herele, mulier, mnltum et audax 6t mala '$. 31 
 
 tun tibi surruptam dicere audes, quam mihi 33 
 
 dedit alia mulier, ut concinnandam darem ? 33 
 
 740 Ma. .haud mihi negabas dudum surrupuisse te : 29 
 
 nunc eandem ante oculos attines ? non te" pudet ? 30 
 
 Me. qtiaeso hercle, mulier, si scis, monstra qu6d 
 
 bibam, ~w 
 
 tuam qui possim peVpeti petulantiam. K /fl-'6X 
 
 quern tu med hominem esse arbitrere, ne'scio : 
 
 added by E. 734. pallam hiss., emended by Vahlen Eh. Mus. xvi 
 635 (oomp. v. 803). pallam atque aurum quom meum E. 735. te 
 om. mss., added by Mulier Pros. p. 532. clam had been added by 
 E. 738. dicere hanc E. after Bothe, but hanc is not in the mss. 
 740. haud (or haut) E., at mss. 744. med om. mss., added by K. 
 esse om. mss., added by Camerarius, but placed here by E. — '■■ 
 
 the Meroator it 4, 47 where sense as deferre in other places, 
 
 Dorippa sends for her father: — recte =vere. 
 
 Syra, i, rogato meum patrem 737. mnltum should be un- 
 
 verbis meis, ut veniat ad me iam derstood as an adverb. Me- 
 
 simul tecum hue. naechmus thinks that all the 
 
 732. res ita nata est=o\Sru) woman Bays to him is merely a 
 
 wiipvicc to wpSryiM. Pareus (Lex. pretence by which she hopes to 
 
 PI. p. 287) quotes Bacch. n 2, get the robe from him. 
 
 40 ut rem natam esse intellego 740. dudum, ' not long since', 
 
 and Cas. n 5, 35, where the She alludes to v. 657 sq. 
 
 same phrase occurs as here. 741. ante oculos attines, 'you 
 
 Hence also the phrase e re nata, hold it up before my very eyes', 
 
 'according to the state of things' 742. ' Monstra seu doce quod 
 
 Ter. Ad. 295. medicamentum bibam, quo tuam 
 
 734. Menaechmus' wife ex- maledicentiam perferre possim. 
 
 aggerates her husband's ill- tralatio seu potius allegoriaa 
 
 deeds in using the plural pallas. medieis et pharmaoopolis qui 
 
 This little artifice is very true dantmedicamentaquaedamqui- 
 
 to nature. bus quis epotis aut venenum 
 
 736. For the accentuation of impune sumere potest aut iam 
 
 era comp. note on v. 717. sumptum tolerare atque adeo 
 The verb is used in the same superare '. Lamb. 
 
V. 1. 45—2. 1.] 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 89 
 
 745 ego te* simitu n6vi cum Porthaone. 
 
 Ma. si me 1 derides, at pol ilium non potes, 
 patre'm meum, qui hue advenit. quia re'spicis ? 
 novistin tu ilium ? Me. n6vi cum Calchd simul 
 eode'm die ilium vidi, quo te ante hunc diem. 
 
 750 Ma. negas novisse me" ? negas patre'm meum ? 
 Me. idem he'rele dicam, si avom vis adducere. 
 Ma. ecastor pariter hoc atque alias re's soles. 
 
 45 
 
 Senex. Matrona. Menaechmvs II. - 
 
 Se. ut a^tas meast atque ut h6c usus factost, > V 2. 
 
 arbitrere Luchs Hermes vi 266, arbitrare mss. 745. si me tu, 
 B, simitu Camerarius. — Parthaone E. after Caruerarius, porth/aone 
 mss. 748. Calcha Pnscian vi p. 702, calchantes Ba. 754. pro- 
 
 745. simitu is a Plautine 
 word instead of simul : see our 
 note on Trin. 223. simitu cum 
 Porthaone novi means ' I know 
 you as well as Porthaon ', i. e. I 
 know neither one nor the other. 
 The reading of the mss. Por- 
 thaon has been defended by 
 Bergk, who supplies a reference 
 to Polyaenus vi 1, 6, where it 
 is stated of Meriones : Mij- 
 pi6vi]s S£, hretdii tls 7Jyyei\ev ai)- 
 Tqi ire-jropdTJffdat r^\v oUlav t 
 Beljdfievos rb oldivi(rp.a &vop.a USero 
 T$ TaiSlip (a son who had just 
 been born to him) XlopBaova. 
 Porthaon was the legendary fa- 
 ther of Oeneus, king of Aetolia. 
 
 746. at is very emphatic at 
 the head of the apodosis. In 
 prose we might also use tamen 
 or attamen. 
 
 747. advenit is the present, 
 not the perfect. — quin respicis, 
 ' won't you look round ' to see 
 the old man. 
 
 748. llenaechmus returns an 
 answer in the same style as v. 
 745. Calcha is a heteroclitic 
 ablative instead of Calchante, 
 
 see BUcheler, Lat. Decl. p. 6. 
 
 749. eod&m should be pro- 
 nounced in two syllables, by 
 way of synizesis. 
 
 750. This line is divided 
 into two halves by the caesura 
 falling after the third foot. 
 This is highly effective in rend- 
 ering the excited and angry 
 speech of the infuriated woman. 
 
 751. In si avom the hiatus 
 is legitimate. — vis is somewhat 
 strange instead of veils or va- 
 luer is. 
 
 752. hoc, bc. facis : 'you be- 
 have in this affair just as you 
 are in the habit . of doing in 
 other matters ', i. e. always' im- 
 pudently. 
 
 Act V., So. ii. The old 
 man first recites a short can- 
 ticum highly characteristic of 
 his mind and manners. The 
 metre is so well adapted to the 
 situation that we almost fancy 
 that we see the feeble old man 
 tottering along as he pro- 
 nounces each line. 
 
 753. ut aetas meast ' as well 
 as my age shall permit me'. — 
 
90 
 
 MENAECHMEJ. 
 
 [V. 2. 2—9, 
 
 gradum proferam, progrediro properdbo. 
 755 sed id quam mihi facile sit, haud sum falsus. 
 
 nam p^rnicitds deserit: consitus sura 
 
 sendctute : onustum ger6 corpus: vires 5 
 
 reliquere. ut adtas mala mers est mala te"rgo ! 
 
 .jiam re's plurum^s pessum&s, quom adrenit, fert, 
 
 76d"quas si hie autumem 6mnis, nimis longus sermost. 
 
 sed haec res mihi in pectore & corde curaest, 
 
 gredi mss., emended by Bothe. 755. mihi facile siet Bothe, facile 
 sit mihi'msa., mihi non sit facile B. 758. mala est mer...mala 
 ergost Ba, mala est mers mala est ergo Nonius, mala merx mala est 
 tergo Turnebus, Grater, maldst merces tergo B. We have followed 
 Brix. 759. fert Ba, B., affert Bb and the other mss., and so 
 Brix. 760. si iam B., nunc si Fleckeisen, si hie the present 
 
 The construction of usus est is 
 the same as opus est ; compare 
 Ter. Hec. 327 with our note. 
 So also Cist. I 2, 10 tacere 
 nequeo misera quod tacito usus 
 est. Am ph. z 3, 7 citius quod 
 non factost usus fit quam quod 
 factost opus. Bud. n 3, 67 iam 
 istoc magis usus factost. From 
 these passages it appears that 
 hoc may here be considered 
 both as an ablative and as a 
 nominative. 
 
 754. For progrediri comp. 
 congrediri Aul. 246. See also 
 Kuhner, Ausf. Gr. i p. 559. 
 
 755. quam 'how little'. — 
 haud sum falsus = non me fallit. 
 
 756. The expression consitus 
 sum senectute seems to occur 
 only here: Turnebus aptly 
 compares Ter. Eun. n 2, 5 
 pannis annisque obsitus. Verg. 
 Aen. vin 307 ibat rex obsitus 
 aevo. 
 
 757. Compare the analogous 
 passage in the Mercator iv 1, 5 
 sq. where an old woman who is 
 told to walk faster (quin is 
 ocius) replies : nequeo mecastor: 
 
 tantum hoc onerist quod fero. 
 Dorippa then asks her: quid 
 onerisf Syra: annos octogvnta 
 et quattuor. 
 
 758. mers is a Flautine form 
 of the nom. instead of merx : 
 see Bitschl's instructive disqui- 
 sition in his Opusc. n 652 sqq. 
 777. The expression merx mala 
 ('a bad piece of work') was 
 also used of worthless persons 
 (Cist, iv 2, 32. Pers. H 2, 56. 
 Pseud, iv 1, 44. True, n 4, 55): 
 see Pareus, Lex. PI. p. 271. 
 
 759. Observe the omission 
 of the copula atque, which may 
 be due to the fact that mala res 
 expresses only the one notion 
 of 'misery'. In Greek we 
 should certainly have to say 
 ■jroWa. koX kcuccl irpdyfiara. 
 
 760. autumare often means 
 'to recount' We should ex- 
 pect sermo sit. But sermost— 
 sermo est. 
 
 761. in pectore et corde, 
 Kara Qpiva Kal Kara Bvfibv. 
 Nearly the same phraBe occurs 
 Merc, m 4, 3 (in pectore atque 
 in corde). 
 
V. 2. 10—22.] MENAECHMEI. 91 
 
 quidnam h6c sit negoti, quod fllia sic 10 
 
 rep&ite expeiit med, ut ad sese irem. 
 
 ne'e quid id sit mihi ceVtias facit, 
 
 quod velit, quod med accersat. 
 
 verum propemodum iam scio, quid sie't rei : 
 765 credo cum viro litigiiim natum esse aUiquod. 15 
 
 ita istaec sol en t, quae viros subservire 
 
 sibi postulant, dote fre'tae,. feroces. 
 
 et illi quoque haud abstinent saepe culpa. 
 
 verumst modus tamen ; quoad pati uxorem op6rtet, 
 770 nee pol filia umquam patrem accersit ad se, 20 
 
 nisi aut quid commisit vir aut iurgi est causa. 
 
 sed id quicquid est, iam sciam. atque eccam eampse 
 
 Editor. The mss. have only si. 762 sq. are given according to 
 the metrical arrangement of the mss. B. reads as follows : — 
 quidnam hoc sit negoti, quod fllia repgnte expetit me, 
 
 ad se ut Irem, 
 nee quid sit, mihl certius prius facit, quod veltt quodve 
 accersat. 
 762. med Brix, me mss. 763. quod E., quid mss. (twice). — me 
 
 s 
 mas., med Brix. 771. commisi B, commissumst E., vir added by 
 Brix. (nisi aut quid vir commisit aut iurgist causa Seyffert Phil. 
 xxrx p. 395). 772. quicquid id est mss., transposed by Bothe. 
 
 762. The metrical arrange- velim certum qui mihi faciat, 
 ment of this passage is, of Ballio leno ubi Mc habitat. 
 course, anything but certain. There is also in Plautus the 
 As the text stands, we should phrase certum facere aliquem, 
 consider the nom. -a in filia to e. g. Pseud, iv 6, 35 epistula 
 be long. For this prosody atque imago me certum facit. 
 comp. our Introd. to Aul. p. 12. quod=propter quod. 
 
 — sic repente 'so quite of a 766. istaec =istaece (istae), 
 sudden '. just as haec = hoe ita sc. fa- 
 
 763. med is an instance of cere. 
 
 prolepsis or anticipation of the 767. postulant, a^iowiv, ae- 
 
 subject of the dependent sen- quum arbitrantur. Lamb. 
 
 tence. 768. illi, mariti. 
 
 763 b . In prose we should have 769. In modus the final .s 
 
 to say neque certiorem me facit shouldbe dropped, thus reducing 
 
 quid id sit. For the expression the word to a pyrrhich. — quoad 
 
 used in the text (which appears should be treated as a mono- 
 
 to have been colloquial) we may syllable = quod. 
 
 compare Pseud. 11 2, 4 nimis 770. filia ' my daughter'. 
 
92 
 
 MENAECHMEl. [V. 2. 2$ — 29. 
 
 ante ae"dis et ems virum video trfstem. 
 id e'st, quod suspica"bar. 
 775 appellabo banc. Ma. ibo arfvorsum. s£lve multum, 
 
 29 
 
 salvaen advenio ? s&lvan accersi 
 
 Se. 
 
 ? quid ille autem ibs te iratus 
 
 mi pater. 
 
 s£lva sis. 
 
 iubes ? 
 quid tu tristis- 
 
 ddstitit ? 
 
 ne"scio quid vos ve*litati e"stis inter v6s duo. 
 "Wquere. uter meruistis culpam, paucis : non long<5s 
 
 logos. 
 
 773. tristem virum video mss., tristem video Bothe, E., video Ms- 
 tern Brix. 775. advorsum Pylades, vorsum mss. 776. salven B, 
 emended by Gronovius. salvan Gronovius, salven mss. 77S. 
 veliati B. The right reading has been preserved by Festus and 
 
 776. The old man asks ten- 
 derly salvaene advenio 'do I 
 find you in good health?' The 
 expression is, however, rather 
 strange, as advenire is not else- 
 whero construed with the da- 
 tive, and Plautus would no 
 doubt have preferred ad te sal- 
 v'am advenio, as he is fond of 
 repeating the preposition after 
 a compound verb. It is, there- 
 fore, possible that Flautus wrote 
 salvaen' amabo ' is all in order, 
 please?' for which phrase com- 
 pare Stich. 8 and our note on 
 Trin. 1177. 
 
 777. autem 'on the other 
 hand'. Menaechmus stands 
 aside, away from his wife, in 
 consequence, as the old man 
 thinks, of some quarrel (iratus). 
 — desistere is here and below . 
 v. 810 employed in its original 
 sense, 'to stand aloof. This 
 is extremely rare, if not con- 
 fined to these two passages. 
 (Lambinus reads distitit 'a 
 verbo disto: non destitit a verbo 
 desisto, quod hie locum habere 
 
 non potest'.) 
 
 778. nescio quid should be 
 taken as one word ' something 
 or other'. — velitor (not a Cice. 
 ronian word) is used in a meta- 
 phorical sense easily under- 
 stood. ' Significat senex filiam 
 suam et Menaechmum leviter 
 inter se propter aliquam sibi 
 incognitam causam verbis con- 
 tendisse'. Lamb. Comp. Bud. . 
 n 6, 41 sq. equidem me ad veil- 
 tationem exerceo : nam omnia 
 corusca prae tremore fabulor. 
 Festus says velitatio dicta est 
 ultro citroque probrorum obiec- 
 tio t ab exemplo velitaris pugnae. 
 
 779. In prose : uter vostrum 
 meruerit. The o-tfyxuff" of the 
 construction will be readily 
 understood. Compare below 
 
 v. 1119 logi (\6yoi) is used by 
 
 Plautus, Terence, and even 
 Cicero, chiefly' of foolish talk. 
 Nonius Bays logi sunt sernwnes 
 vel dicta ridicula et contem- 
 nenda. (Lambinus justly draws 
 attention to the irapJ/xW m 
 longos logos.) 
 
V. 2. 30—37.] MENAECHMEI. 93 
 
 780 Ma. nusquam equidem quicquam deliqui : hoc 
 
 primum te absolvd, pater : 30 
 
 ve'rum vivere hie non possum ne"que durare ull6 
 
 modo : 
 proin tu me hinc abducas. Se. quid istuc ati- 
 
 temst? Ma. Iudibri6, pater, 
 habeor. Se. unde ? Ma. ab illo, quoi me man- 
 
 davisti, me6 viro. 
 Se. ecce autem litlgium. quotiens tandem ego 
 
 edixi tibi, 
 
 785 ut caveres, - neuter ad me ire*tis cum querimdnia ? 35 
 
 Ma. qui istuc, mi pater, cavere pdssum ? Se. men 
 
 interrogas ? 
 * * * * * * * 
 
 nisi non vis. quotie"ns monstravi tibi, viro ut morem 
 geras ? 
 
 Nonius. — duo Nonius, duos mss. 781. hie vivere B. (not the other 
 mss.) t 784. ego om. mss., added by B. 787. 'exoidisse talem 
 fere versiculum puto : 
 
 p6l si sapias, satis tupro te,iquid opus sit facto", scias ' E. 
 
 780. nusquam 'in no affair'. was conceived to pass e manu 
 — absolvere is repeatedly used in patris in manum viri. 
 
 the sense of 'despatching' or 784. ecce autem expresses 
 
 'satisfying' some one. In- surprise and indignation :' well, 
 
 stances are given hy Pareus, there we have a pretty quarrel ! ' 
 
 Lex. PI. p. 5. The sense is Comp. Most, m 1; 131 ecce 
 
 therefore ' with this answer I autem perii. — The old man's 
 
 will satisfy you from the very indignation is also expressed 
 
 beginning '. by tandem. 
 
 781. durare, Ka/rrepetv, ' to 785. neuter iretis may he 
 abide'. In the same way compared with uter meruistis 
 Alcmena says Amph. in 2, v. 779. Comp. Epid. n 2, 73 
 1 durare nequeo in aedibus. dederim vobis consilium catum, 
 (Lamb.) quod laudetis uterque. 
 
 782. istuc ' your complaint '. 788. nisi ' but ' — a sense it 
 
 783. unde = a quo. — The frequently has in Plautus. — 
 usual words of committing a monstravi is used as a synonym 
 wife to a husband's care are of mandavi or praecepi, whence 
 committere^ and collocare : but also the construction with ut. 
 mandare ( = in manum dare) ap- Lambinus justly paraphrases 
 pears to be a very appropriate ' quoties praecepi tibi, ut te 
 expression, as a married woman viro morigeram praebeas '. 
 
94 MENAECHMEI. [V. 2. 38—45. 
 
 qu6d ille faciat, ne" id observes, qu<5 eat, quid rerum 
 
 gerat. 
 790 Ma. At enim ille hinc amat meretricem ex pr6xumo. 
 
 Se. sane* sapit': 
 £tque ob istanc industriam etiam faxo amabit 
 
 amplius. 40 
 
 Ma. dtque ibi potat. Se. tu£ quidem ille causa 
 
 potabit minus, 
 si illic, sive alibi lubebit ? quae hade malum in- 
 
 pudentiast ? 
 una opera prohibere, ad cenam ne promittat, p6s- 
 
 tules, 
 795 neve quemquam accipiat alienum apud se. servirin 
 
 tibi 
 p6stulas vir6s ? dare una te 6pera pensum p6s- 
 
 tules, 45 
 
 789. quid mss. E., quod present Editor. 792. tuan Pylades, 
 B., tua rnss. 793. si Bothe, sive mss. 795. se Acidalius, te 
 mss. 796. te om. mss., added by the present Editor, illi 
 
 789. The expressions are Trim. 183. — malum is the popu- 
 here nearly the same as v. 115, lar interjection, which we had 
 where the lady's ' observing ' already above, v. 390. 
 propensities are first mentioned 794. postules d£io(ijs av, 'you 
 by her husband. — In qu6 eat might as well pretend', una 
 the hiatus is legitimate. opera= the later adverb una. 
 
 790. at enim ' but to be 795. We should drop the d 
 sure'; comp. n. on Trin. 705'. in apud. — accipere = cena or 
 — hinc should be joined with epulis accipere, 'to entertain 
 ex praxumo, comp. Aul. 287 some one at dinner'. — servirin= 
 according to our second edition. servirene. A short e was gene- 
 So also Asin. 1 1, 37 sq. filius rally changed into i in the com- 
 qwid amet mews istanc mere- pounds, comp. unde — undique, 
 tricem e proxumo Philenium. inde — indidem. So also tute- 
 
 791. For ob istanc Indus- ne = tutin in Plautus. See 
 triam comp. v. 123 above. Eitschl, Opusc. n 556 sqq. 
 Lamb, explains ' quia istam in- 796. After postulate we find 
 dustriam et diligentiam adhibes sometimes the accus. with the 
 in observando*. — faxo etc. ' I infinitive, even in those cases 
 give you my word on it, he when the subject of the infini- 
 will love her all the more'. tive sentence agrees with that 
 
 793. Plautus does not em- of the main sentence. See, 
 ploy sive. ..sive, but only si... however, also our critical note. 
 sive {sen) : , comp my note on 
 
V. 2. 46 — 52.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 95 
 
 inter ancillas sedere iubeas, lanam carere^ 
 
 Ma. n6n equidem mihi te &dvocatum, pater, adduxi, 
 
 se"d viro : 
 hinc stas, illim causam dicis. Se. si ille quid de- 
 
 liquerit, 
 800 multo tanto ilium dccusabo, quam te accusavi, 
 
 araplius. 
 quando te auratam e"t vestitam be"ne habet, ancillas, 
 
 penum so 
 
 recte praehibet, meliust sanam, mtilier, mentem 
 
 sumere. 
 Ma. £t ille suppMt mihi aurum et paTlas ex arcis 
 
 domo : 
 
 una B., unad Brix. 797. carpere mss., carere Varro de 1. 1. 
 vn 54 p. 329 Sp. 800. tanta BCD. 801. quando curatam 
 et vestitam bine habet te E. against the mss. See Vahlen Bh. 
 
 magis) without tanto. The 
 same expression occurs Eud. n 
 6, 37 ego multo tanto miserior. 
 In this construction we should 
 consider tantum as a kind of 
 substantive and multum as the 
 adjective. A literal translation 
 would be ' I am more miserable 
 by far'. — accusare often means 
 'to blame'. 
 
 801. Compare the expres- 
 sions used above, v. 120 sq. 
 
 802. praehibet =praebet. So 
 also debere = dehibere. — melius 
 est like the Greek a/ieu>6v iariM, 
 often without an exact refer- 
 ence to a comparison. Here 
 we may easily supply quam 
 nunc habes retinere. Compare 
 Livy in 48, 3 proinde quiesse 
 erit melius (sc. quam turbasse). 
 
 803. ¥oxpallas comp. v. 734. 
 area is often used in the sense 
 of a chest, in which clothes are 
 kept, area vestiaria Cato E. E. 
 11, 3. — domo 'out of the 
 house': comp. v. 645, ,735. 
 
 797. For carere {=Kclpeiv) 
 see the diet. fl. T v. and also car- 
 minare. Vanicek, Etym. Wor- 
 terb. p. 183. The expressions 
 used in this line suggest an 
 allusion to the tale of Hercules 
 and Omphale. 
 
 798. This line furnishes a 
 capital instance of the un- 
 soundness of the theory which 
 assumes in the metres of 
 Plautus a coincidence between 
 the metrical and the rhetorical 
 accent. In the present line, 
 mihi is evidently emphasized 
 and yet stands in a thesis. 
 
 " 799. hinc stas = a mea parte 
 stas 'you stand on my side'. 
 Compare the French phrase 
 'vous vous placez de mon 
 c6t6\ — illim=illinc (Poen. n 7,; 
 v 2, 27. 98. Most, ii 2, 36). 
 The suffix is familiar to everyone 
 in utrimque=ex utraque parte. 
 See Eitschl, Opusc. n 452 sqq. 
 . - 800. In prose we should 
 simply say multo amplius (or 
 
96 MENAECHMEI. [V. 2. 53 — 62 
 
 me" despoliat, mea ornamenta clam £d meretrices 
 
 degerit. 
 805 Se. mile facit, si isttic facit : si n6n facit, tu mile 
 
 facis, 
 quae insontem insimule's. Ma. quin etiam nunc 
 
 habet palMm, pater, 55 
 
 e*t spinter, quod ad hanc detulerat : nunc, quia re- 
 
 scivi, refert. 
 Se. iam ego ex hoc, ut factumst, scibo : adibo ad 
 
 ^ hominem atque <£<floquar. 
 die riii istuc, Menae'chme, quid vos discertatis, tit 
 
 sciam. 
 810 quid tu tristis e"s ? quid ilia autem &bs te irata 
 
 de"stitit ? 
 Me. quisquis es, quicquid tibi nomen e"st, senex : 
 
 summum Iovem eo 
 
 de6sque do testis Se. qua de re aut qu6ius rei 
 
 rerum dmnium ? . 
 Me. me* neque.isti mile fecisse mulieri, quae me 
 
 arguit 
 
 Mus. xvi 637. 803. domo Aoidalius, modo mss. 804. clam Acida- 
 lius, iam B. 808. sibo mss. , emended by Cam'erarius. adibo om. 
 mss., added byB. in this place, but previously by Pylades after 
 hominem. adquemloqaar B, emended by Pylades. 809. quid R. 
 in his note (see Becker, Studemund's Stud. 1 p. 146), quod mss. 
 — discertatis DaF (R.), dissertatis BGDb, disceptatis Colvius. 810. 
 comp. v. 777. Is this line an interpolation, or is it intentionally 
 repeated ? tutrix es B, with the correction tristis in the margin. 
 destituis or similar corruptions are read in the mss. 812. detestes 
 
 805. istuc, cuius tu eum 811. For quicquid nomen 
 
 insimulas. compare the phrase quid tibi 
 
 809. discertare (omitted in est nomen. 
 
 Smith's Diet. ) seems to be an 812. deosque is disyllabic by 
 iiir. dp. The sense is of course way of synizesis. — The old man 
 •the- same as dimicare 'to fight' is greatly astonished at the 
 on opposite sides. (A fre- solemn commencement of Me- 
 quentative like dissertatis does naechmus' speech. Lamb, just- 
 not agree with the general ly paraphrases 'qua de re aut 
 sense of this line.) ad quamrem ex rebus omnibus 
 
 810. See our crit. note. ita Iovem testaris?' 
 
V. 2. 63 — 70.] MENAECHMEI. 97 
 
 815 hanc domo ab se surrupuisse'ei&bstulisse : de"ierat. 
 
 si ego intra aedis htiius umquam, ubi habitat, 
 penetravi pedem," 
 
 6mnium hominum ex6pto ut fiam mi'serorum mi- 
 sdrrumus, . es 
 
 Se. sanun es^ijui istuc exoptes, auli neges te um- 
 quam pedem 
 
 in eas aedis intulisse, ubi hdbitas, insanissume ? 
 820 Me. tun, senex, ais babitare me*d in illisce ae"dibus ? 
 
 Se. tu negas ? Me. nego hurdle vero. Se. immo 
 hercle ridicule* negas : 
 
 nisi quo nocte hac eicmigrasti. . cdncede hue sis, 
 filia. 70 
 
 mss., do testes Gruter. 815. et om. mss., added by the present 
 Editor. E. considers this line as the combined fragments of two 
 which he supplies as follows : hanc domo ab se sirrupuisse [pal- 
 lam, neque earn umquam antidhac Fuisse illius quam me sibimet] 
 abstulisse d&erat. delurat B, emended by Camerarius. 8J6. 
 pedem om. mss., added by Fylades. 818. nee e umquam Ba, cor- 
 rected in FZ. 819. intulis Ba, intulisse FZ. 820. me in B, metdin 
 C, emended by Gruter. 821. tun B. after Bothe. immo hercle 
 Vahlen Eh. Mus. xvi 638, inmo hece B, nimio hoc E. ridicule 
 Studemund, ludere B, ludicre E. after Fareus. 822. hac Camera- 
 rius, ac mss. emigrasti the Italian oritics, migrasti mss., exm. E. 
 hac mss., hue Camerarius. sis om. mss,, added by Acidalius. 
 
 815. Seeorit. note. Menaech- live yourself '. In the following 
 mus' brief assertion deierat, line we have med in a very 
 placed as it is at the end of emphatic position. \ 
 
 the line, produces a very strong 821. vero is usted by Me- 
 effect. Compare v. 86 above, naechmus in its usual sense, 
 where we have the emphatic 'indeed'; but the old man re- 
 statement nugae sunt eae. joins as if it were the same as 
 
 816. The expression is very serio. 'No', he says, 'you rather 
 full, as ubi habitat is, properly deny this merely by way of 
 speaking, quitesuperfluous after joke — unless you have removed 
 the genitive huius.— For the last night '. 
 
 phrase penetrare pedem comp. 822. nocte hac = dum som- 
 
 uote on v. 400 above. mias. The general sense is ' un- 
 
 817. exopto 'Iwish from the less you have removed in your 
 bottom of my heart', i.e. quite dreams': 'proinde quasi dicat, 
 sincerely. usque ad hodiernum diem sem- 
 
 819. We might almost ex- per in his aedibus habitasti'. 
 pect ubi tu habitas 'where you (Lamb.) The old man con- 
 
 W. M. 7 
 
98 MENAECHMEI. [V. 2. 71 — 77. 
 
 quid tu ais ? num hinc dxmigrastis ? Ma. quem 
 
 in locum aut quam ob rem, dbsecro ? 
 Se. n6n edepol sci6. .Ma. profecto ludit te hie : 
 
 non tu tenes ? 
 825 iarn vero, Menae'chme, satis -ioc&tu's : nunc hanc 
 
 re*m gere. , 
 
 Me. quae'so, quid mihi tdcums't? unde> aut quis 
 
 tu homo's ? sandn tibi 
 minis est aut adeo isti, quae moldstast mihi quoqud 
 
 modo ? * b 
 
 Ma. videri tu illic ocul6s liver e ? ut viridis exoritur 
 
 colos 
 ex temporibus atque ' fronte : ut dculi scintillant, 
 
 vide. 
 
 823. exmigrasti B, emigrastis Aoidalius. quam added by Beroal- 
 dus. 824. tute mss., te B., tu Mflller, Nachtr. p. 129, Brix. 
 
 825. iocatus es B. after Camerarius, but es is not in the mss. 
 gere Studemund and A. Spengel ; agere mss., age Camerarius, B. 
 
 826. soman om. mss., added by Weise, B. 827. mem est om. mss., ' 
 added by Weise, B. mihi molesta est mss., emended by E. 828. 
 illic B., illi mss. uirere or similar corruptions are read in the 
 mss., emended by B. 830. 'laeunam signavi : ubi enim aiunt 
 
 tinues to speak in a jesting sed tace nunc atque liane rem 
 
 and jocular manner. Hence' gere. 
 
 also his question to his daughter 828. illic = Mice. — For the 
 
 whom he induces to come nearer whole situation we may com- 
 
 and approach her husband. — pare Oapt. m 4, 63 sqq. — For 
 
 Plautus often keeps the x in the viridis colos of the eyes of 
 
 compounds of ex, where later an angry person Brix compares 
 
 Latinity employs a simple e. Cure, n 1, 15 quis hie est homo 
 
 823. 'What do you say? cum conlativo ventre atque oculit 
 You have not removed from hekbeis ? ' Ben Jonson seems 
 here, after all?' plainly to have imitated this 
 
 824. ludit te = ludibrio te passage. " Lord, how idly he 
 habet (v. 782 sq.). — non tu tenes 1 talks, and how his eyes sparkle I 
 ' don't you perceive so much as he looks green about the tern- 
 
 • that?' pies! do you see, what blue 
 
 825. We should drop the spots he has } " The Silent 
 final s in satis. — hanc rem gere Woman iv 4 '. E. WaehEb. 
 
 ' give your mind to the present 829. Compare Capt. in 4, 62 
 business' (' attende animum ad ardent oculi. — For the gap mark- 
 id negotium quod agiinus ' ed after this line see our crit. 
 Lamb.) : comp. Pseud, i 2, 61 note. 
 
V. 2. 78—87.] MENAECHMEI. 99 
 
 830 * * * * * * * 
 
 Me. hei mihi, insanire me aiunt, ultro quom ipsi 
 
 insaniunt. 90 
 
 Ma. lit pandiculans dscitatur. quid nunc faciam, 
 
 ^ mi pater? so 
 
 Se. cdncede hue, mea gnata, ab istoc quam potest 
 
 longissume. si 
 
 Me. quid mihi meliust quam ut, quando illi me 
 
 insanire prae"dicant, 7« 
 
 835 6gomet me adsimulem insanire, ut illos a me aps- 
 
 te"rream ? , 79 
 
 euoe Bacche : heu, Br6mie, quo me in silvam ve- 
 
 natum vocas ? s-j 
 
 audio, sed non abire p6ssum ab his regi6nibus : 
 ita ilia me ab laeva rabiosa fe'mina adservat canis : 
 pdste autem illic hircus calvos, qui saepe aetate in 
 
 SUa 85 
 
 840 pdrdidit civem innocentem falso testim6nio. 
 
 Se. va.6 capiti tuo. Me. e"cce Apollo e"x oraclo mi 
 imperat, 
 
 eum insanire ?' B. 831 — 5 arranged in this order by Acidalius. 
 834. ut om. lnss., added by E., N. PI. Exc. 1 p. 42 (not in his 
 edition). 835. ego mss., egomet Miiller Pros. 730. ego me ut B. 
 839. post te mss., poste B. illi circo salus mss., illic hircus alius 
 Beroaldus, B.; calvos is Muller's oonjeoture, Pros. p. 730 note. 
 841. mihi ex orac[u)lo mss., corrected by B., who subsequently 
 
 833. quam potest longissume a quarrelsome, ill-tempered wo- 
 ' as far away as it is possible '. man designated as canis. — ad- 
 
 834. A sentence with ut is servai'e=observare or the simple 
 read after melius est in several servare. Comp. below v. 851, 
 passages, e. g. Aul. 76 sq. Brix 954. 
 
 quotes also Pseud, iv 7, 19. Bud. 839. poste is the archaic form 
 
 1 4, 1. (11 2, 22 ?) rv 4, 145.. of the preposition post, by which 
 
 836. Bromius (Bp6/uos, from a complete analogy is establish- 
 
 Ppifiw) is one of the many names ed in the formation of poste 
 
 of Bacchus. and ante. See Corssen 1 183, 
 
 838. femina canis ' a bitch ' : who shows that the e is an 
 
 compare True. 11 2, 29 musca ablatival suffix. — aetate in sua 
 
 femina 'a female fly'. In the 'in his life'. 
 
 Casiua 11 5, 12 we likewise find 841. The hiatus in the cae- 
 
 7—2 
 
100 MENAECHMEI. [V. 2, 88 — 95. 
 
 ut ego illic ocul6s exuram lampadibus ardentibus. 
 Ma. perii, mi pate"r: minatur mihi oculos exurere. 89 
 Se. filia, heus. Ma. quid e"st? quid agimus? Se. 
 
 quid, si ego hue serv6s cito? 91 
 
 845 ibo, adducam qui htinc hinc tollant 6t domi de- 
 
 vinciant, 
 prius quam turbarum quid faciat amplius. Me. bem, 
 
 iam reor, 
 ni 6ccupo aliquod mihi consilium, hi domum me 
 
 ad se auferent. 
 pugnis me votas in huius 6re quicquam parcere, 95 
 
 preferred mi ex oraclod N. PI. Exe. 1 p. 64, followed by Brix. Pos- 
 sibly Plautus wrote nunc mi ex draclo imperat. 842. illic K., illi 
 mss. lampadis Fleckeisen. 846. hem, iam reor B., enim erco mss. 
 847. aliquid mss., corrected by an Italian critic. 848. men It. 
 
 sura of this line may perhaps 
 be considered dubious, as there 
 is no strong pause after Apollo. 
 See the crit. note. 
 
 842. illic=illice (dative). — 
 Though the present reading 
 lampadibus arttentibus may be 
 maintained as an instance of 
 the original long quantity of 
 the dative and ablative suffix 
 -feus, it is highly probable that 
 Plautus himself wrote lampadis, 
 as he generally adopts latinized 
 forms of Greek words. Comp. 
 5£s, 8$8a=taeda. Priscian vn 
 53 (p. 330 H.) quotes the accu- 
 sative lampadem from Plautus 
 (Cas. iv 4, 16), but there also 
 we should probably write lam- 
 padam. See Biioheler, Lat. 
 Decl. p. 6, and Kiihner, Ausf. 
 Gr. 1 p. 320. 
 
 844. quid si... cito? 'what do 
 you think, if I were to call the 
 servants here?' 
 
 845. It is rather strange that 
 
 the old man does not afterwards 
 carry out his intention, but re- 
 mains where he is. We should 
 suppose that Menaeohmus an- 
 ticipates the old man's plan and 
 by placing himself between the 
 house and him, finally con- 
 trives to leave the stage before 
 servants can be called out to 
 bind him. 
 
 846. In dmplius we have an 
 instance of the original long 
 quantity of the suffix of the 
 comparative. It is not necessary 
 to assume that the long quan- 
 tity is due to the pause caused 
 by the change of speakers. 
 
 847. Observe the hiatus in 
 caesura. 
 
 848. votas=vetas. Menaech- 
 mus feigns to address Apol- 
 lo, huius =mulieris,— quicquam 
 parcere in the negative sentence 
 is said just as we might say 
 nihil parcere 'to refrain not 
 a whit'. 
 
V. 2. 96—101.] MENAECHMEI. 101 
 
 ni iani ex meis oculis abscedat maxumam in malam 
 
 crucem ? 
 850 faciam quod iube*s, Apollo. Se. fuge domum 
 
 quantum potest, 
 ne hie te obtundat. Ma. fugio. amabo, adserva 
 
 istunc, mi pater, 
 nd quo hinc abeat. sumne ego mulier misera, quae 
 
 illaec atidio ? 
 Me. hatid male illanc d me amovi. ntinc bunc in- 
 
 purissumum, ioo 
 
 barbaturn, tremulum Titbonum, Cdcino prognattim 
 
 patre, 
 
 against tlie mss. 849. ex o'm. msa., added by Camerarius. in 
 malam magnam crucem mss., emended by R. 850. potest B, potes 
 the other mss. 853. a me om. mss., added by Bothe. 854. 
 titanum mss., emended by Meursius. cygno B and the other mss. 
 of Plautus, cvo.no. the Bamberg ms. of Priscian, whence E. 
 elicited Gucino. prognatum mss. of Plautus, qui cluet Priscian ; 
 but there is no reason to prefer this to the reading of our mss., 
 which are generally superior to Priscian's citations, nor is it 
 necessary to assume that prognatum arose from the parallel pas- 
 sage v. 408. qui cluet Gucino patre Brix following B.'s 'second 
 
 849. The expression in ma- as we might say ' a filthy 
 lam magnam crucem (here given wretch'. — We should observe 
 by the mss.) is nowhere else the anaeoluthia in this line and 
 read in Plautus, who often uses v. 855. Here Menaechmus com- 
 ire in malam epieem or in malam mences his sentence as if he 
 rem, and invariably in maxumam were going to continue iubes 
 malam crucem. comminui artuatim. 
 
 850. quantum potest ' as 854. Tithonus (HiBuvSs) is 
 quick as possible'. well known as the shrivelled- 
 
 851. In the present instance up husband of Aurora. Hence 
 the hiatus might be easily re- Menaechmus compares the old 
 moved by adding te after amabo. man to a ' bearded and tottering 
 It is, however, quite unneces- old Tithon'. Tithon was not, 
 sary to do so. however, the son of Cygnus (Kii- 
 
 862. ' An unhappy wife am kvos), but of Laoraedon, king of 
 
 I to hear all this '. B. Warner. Troy. ' Plautus makes the mis- 
 
 853. baud male is a litotes . take designedly, as the speaker 
 
 equivalent to optume, perbene is feigning himself mad' (Wab- 
 
 'rather cleverly'. — impurus is nbr). Lambinus opines ' Cycno 
 
 an epithet often applied to pan- prognatum patre dicit, prop- 
 
 ders {lenones) ; it always conveys terea quod cano capite esset'. 
 
 a sense of moral baseness, just Cucinus is the original Plautine 
 
102 .MENAECHMEI. [V. 2. 102— 109. 
 
 855 ita mihi imper&s, ut ego huius membra atque ossa 
 
 atque £rtua 
 c6mminuam illo scfpione, quem ipse habet. Se. 
 
 dabitlir malum, 
 m6 quidem si attigeris aut si prdpius ad me ac- 
 
 ce'sseris. 
 Me. faciatn quod iube"s : securim capiam ancipitem 
 
 atque hunc senem 105 
 
 6sse fini de"dolabo assulatim ei viscera. 
 860 Se. enim vero illud praecavendumst atque adcu- 
 
 randlim mihi. 
 sane ego ilium metuo, ut minatur, ne" quid male 
 
 faxit mihi. 
 Me. multa mihi imperds, Apollo, nunc equos 
 
 iunctds iubes 
 
 thoughts', Bh. Mus. x 447. 855. artus B (not the other mss,). 
 859. osse tenus dolabo et concidam assulatim viscera E. (oomp. his 
 Opusc. 11 252), but the ms. reading has been justly defended by 
 Teuffel Jahrb. 1869 p. 485 and maintained by Brix. ei om. mss., 
 added by Brix, 860. adcura dum si A, emended by the Italian 
 
 form, compare tecldna=rixvn, bipennis securis. 
 draehuma = Spaxpti, Alcumena 858 sq. We have here an ana- 
 = 'AXK/ifyri, A leumaeus = 'AX- colathia, as we should naturally 
 K/ialuu, mina=iiva. A com- expect huic seni. .This devia- 
 plete list of these formations is tion from the ordinary con- 
 given by Kiihner, Ausf. Gr. 1 struction appeared so intole- 
 p. 87. See also our crit. note. rable to Eitschl as to induce 
 
 855. The plural artva ap- him to make a rather violent 
 pears to occur only here (else- change in the following line, 
 where artus) : there are, how- See crit. note. 
 
 ever, sufficient analogies {peeua 859. fini is used as a prepo- 
 
 tonitrua etc.) for which see sition in the present passage 
 
 Kiihner, Ausf. Gr. 1 p. 242. and in Cato E. E- 28, 2 operito 
 
 856. The old man lifts up terra radicibus fini. Compare 
 his stick and threatens to strike the Italian preposition fino. 
 Menaechmus, if he attempts to 861. ilium metuo ut minatur 
 attack him. ' I begin to be afraid of him 
 
 858. ancipitem, ' iju^xn, au- from the way in which he 
 
 tpWynTov, aiuplmouov, utrimque threatens me'. We should 
 
 secantem ' Lamb. As Brix ob- therefore explain ut minatur as 
 
 serves, Varro ap. Non. 79 de- equivalent to ex minis eius. 
 
 signated a two-edged axe as 862. equos iunctoe 'dixit ut 
 
V. 2. 110—118.] MENAECHMEI. 103 
 
 capere . me indomitos, ferocis, atque in currum in- 
 
 scendere, no 
 
 lit ego nunc proteram leonem ve'tulum, olentem, 
 
 edentulum. 
 865 iam adstiti in currliin : iam lora teneo, iam stt- 
 
 mulum in raanu. 
 agite equi, facit6te sonitus ungularum appareat: 
 cursu celeri facite inflexa sit pedum pernicitas. 
 , Se. mihin equis iunctis minare ? Me. ecce, Apollo, 
 
 de"nuo us 
 
 me iubes facere inpetum in eum, qui hie stat, 
 
 atque occidere. 
 870 se"d quis hie est, qui me capillo hinc de curru de- 
 
 ripit ? 
 imperium ,tu6m demutat £tque edictum Apdllinis. 
 
 critics. 862. mi B. 864. etulum mss., emended by Gulielmius. 
 edentius mss., emended by Pius. 865. stimulus iam in manust B. 
 against the mss. manust mss., manu Brix. 867. inflexu mss., 
 emended by Dousa. 869. hie om. mss., added by Bothe. 872. 
 
 secernat ab ephippiatis qui sin- apparet is certainly unusual 
 
 gulares currunt aut gradiuntur instead of exauditur. In v. 867 
 
 et singuli a singulis sessoribus we may notice the twofold al- 
 
 reguntur neque currum trahunt: literation in Cursu Celeri, 
 
 quos K^Xriras Graeci vocant. sic and in Pedum Pernicitas. It 
 
 iunctos leones Vergilius dixit is, moreover, foreign to the 
 
 lib. in Aeneidos [113] et iuncti easy and plain style of comedy 
 
 currum dominae subiere leones, to say pedum pernicitas inflexa 
 
 et iunctos equos lib. xii [735] est instead of pedes pernices in- 
 
 cum primum in proelia iunctos flexi sunt. 
 Conscendebat equos'. Lamb. 868. In the present instance 
 
 864. olentem 'stinking'. it would be easy to remove the 
 
 865. Brix appropriately com- hiatus in the caesura by writing 
 pares Merc, v 2, 90 iam in cur- minaris instead of minare. It 
 rum escendi, iam lora in manus is, however, certain that Plautus 
 cepi meas. The phrase in manu himself did not choose to avoid 
 tenere occurs also Trin. 914. this hiatus. Compare also v. 
 See the crit. note. 870. 
 
 866. This and the following 871. The genitive Apollinis 
 line are evidently imitations of is equal to tuom, and therefore 
 some tragic scene or rather re- unnecessary at the end of the 
 productions of tragic phraseo- sentence. It is, however, pos- 
 logy. In the present line, the sible that Apollinis is added 
 expression sonitus ungularum with a certain amount of em- ' 
 
104 MENAECHMEI. [V. 2. 119— V. 3. 5. 
 
 Se. heu, h^rcle morbum acutum. di, vostraro 
 fidem : 
 
 vel hie, qui insanit, quam valuit pauld prius : 120 
 
 ei derepente tantus morbus incidit. 
 875 ibo atque accersam me'dicum iam quantum po- 
 test. 
 
 Me. iamne isti abierunt quadso ex conspectu 
 meo, V 3. 
 
 qui vi me cogunt, ut validus insaniam ? 
 
 quid cesso abire ad navem, dum salvd licet ? 
 
 880 vosque 6mnis quaesb, si senex reve'nerit, 
 
 tie me indicetis, qu& platea hinc aufugerim. 5 
 
 acrem ac durum mss., acutum A. Spengel, morbum, hercle acrem ac 
 durum E. 873. The gap was first pointed oat by B. 877. vdlidus 
 ut vesaniam Bothe. I should rather expect sanus ut vesaniam. 
 879. ' intercidit talis fere versiculus : 
 
 facCsso hercle ex his tfirbis iam quanttim potest ' E. 
 881. ne ei iam indicetis B., nime ind. mss. Comp. "Vahlen, Eh. 
 Mus. xyi 638. 
 
 phasis : ' mutat edictum Apolli- lldus is not in keeping with the 
 
 nis, cuius tamen edicta minima general habit of Plautus. See 
 
 nmtari fas est'.— We should our crit. note. 
 
 probably assume that after these 878. salvo, sc. abire, 'while 
 
 words Menaechmus throws him- I can get off uninjured '. 
 
 self on the ground in simulated 880 srj. are addressed to the 
 
 frenzy. spectators. Though it may be 
 
 872 sq. After this line we said that this destroys the illu- 
 
 should assume a gap in which sion of the performance, it can- 
 
 an observation was made of a not be denied that it produces 
 
 general bearing, e. g. homUncu- also a very ludicrous effect. 
 
 lorum vires quam pereAnt cito 1 Similar instances are not un- 
 
 This is then exemplified by the common in Plautus and Aris- 
 
 present instance of Menaech- tophanes. 
 
 mus. For vel in the following 881. me is a case of antici. 
 
 line compare below v. 1042. pation of the subject of the 
 
 877. The pronunciation va- dependent sentence. 
 
V. 3. 6—11.] 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 105 
 
 ACTVS V. 
 
 Senex. 
 
 Lumbi sedendo, 6culi spectand6 dolent, 
 
 manendo medicum, dum se ex opere recipiat. 
 
 odi6sus tandem vix ab aegrotis venit. 
 885 ait se 6bligasse cms fractum Aesculapio, 
 *"*' Ap611ini autem bracchium. nunc cdgito, 10 
 
 utrdm me dicam dticere medicum an fabrum. 
 
 882. sedendod B., N. PI. Exc. i 72; in his edition he in- 
 serted mi. 886. brachium E., Brix. 887. medicum ducere B. 
 
 Aci V. Sc. in. The old man 
 had waited a long time for the 
 physician's cominghome. When 
 that happened, he had talked 
 with him and told him in 
 general of Menaeehmns' dis- 
 order. He had then quitted 
 him and was now waiting for 
 >iim again, while some business 
 within doors detained him. All 
 this requires a long interval of 
 time, as long at least as poets 
 ever ought to suppose between 
 two successive acts. B.Waeneb, 
 who was the first to introduce 
 the present distribution into 
 acts, in 1772 — a considerable 
 time before Bothe, to whom 
 Bitschl ascribes it. 
 - 882. spectando 'withlooking 
 out'. He had been straining 
 his eyes to see if the physician 
 was coming. 
 
 883. manendo medicum is 
 justly explained by Brix as 
 equivalent to dum maneo. Comp. 
 Ter. Andr. 938 animus cornmo- 
 
 tust metu, ope, gaudio, mirando 
 hoc tanto tarn repentino bono, 
 where Donatus says that mi- 
 rando = dum miror. — dum se ex 
 opere recipiat 'while this same 
 doctor from his patients comes '. 
 (Waeneb.) 
 
 884. The physician renders 
 himself odiosus by his boasting. 
 A few instances of his vain- 
 glorious assertions are given in 
 the following lines. *He pre- 
 tends to be a physician ' fit for 
 the gods '. 
 
 887. The plain sense is nunc 
 dubius haereo, utrum medicum 
 ducam an fabrum. The intro- 
 duction of dicere into such a 
 sentence as this has the effect 
 of lengthening it; it is, how- 
 ever, very common in Latin. — 
 There is no reason to change 7 " 
 the order of words such as it is 
 given by the mss. We may, if 
 we choose, consider the final e 
 in ducere to appear in its original 
 long quantity — though it is not 
 
106 MENAECHMEI. [V. 3. 12—1 6. 
 
 atque e'ccum incedit. m6ve formicinum gradum. 
 
 Medicvs. Senex. 
 
 Me. quid illi 6sae morbi dixeras ? narr&, senex. V 4. 
 890 Mm laruatust aM cerritus ? fac sciam. 
 
 num. etim veterans aut aqua intercus tenet ? 
 Se. quin e£ te causa dtico, ut id dic£s mihi 
 atque ilium ut sanum facias. Me. perfacile id 
 quidemst. 5 
 
 sanum futurum, me'a ego id promittd fide. 
 
 against the mss. 889. esset illi mas., emended by E. 890. larua- 
 tm mss., laruatust It. 894, 5, 6 are given in the order of the 
 
 absolutely necessary to do so. — 
 If the physician set a broken 
 leg of Aesculapius himself, he 
 may be styled medicus; if he 
 merely mended a broken statue 
 of Aesculapius, he would be 
 more justly called a faber. 
 
 888. incedere denotes a slow 
 and stately kind of walking; see 
 note on Aul. 47. Iljid. 49 we 
 find the expression testudineus 
 gradus, which may be well com- 
 pared with the phrase read in 
 our text. Lamb, says ' incedit 
 formicarum in morem, qua- 
 rum gradus est minutissimus 
 ac spississimus', and Muretus 
 makes the pointed observation 
 ' formicae multum quidem mo- 
 vent, sed parum promovent'. — 
 For the prosody of mdve see In- 
 trod. Aul. p. 25 sq. 
 
 Act V. Sc. iv. 889. The 
 physician wants to be free from 
 the trouble of making a diag- 
 nosis himself. 
 
 890. In Flautus larua is 
 always trisyllabic; comp. Aul. 
 634. Nonius p. 44 gives the 
 following explanation : — cer- 
 
 > riti et laruati, male sani et 
 aut Cereris ira aut laruarum 
 incursatione animovexati. Plait- . 
 tus Amphitryone ; Idruatust 
 Sdepol hominem miserum 
 medicum quairitat. [Sea 
 Ussing's Plautus, 1. p. 67.] 
 idem qui supra in Amphitryone 
 quasi advenienti morbo me- 
 dicati iuvem [this passage 
 is corrupt ; Ussing reads quaese 
 advenienti morbo medicamen to- 
 men}: tu certe aut laruatus 
 aut cerritus es [see Ussing, 
 p. 65]. We may also compare 
 Am ph. 11 2, 144 sq. quaeso 
 quin tu istanc iubes Pro" cerrita 
 circumferri? A. edepol qui fac- 
 tost opus-: Nam hale quidem 
 edepol laruarum plentxsU So 
 also Horace, Sat. 11 3, 878 
 cerritus fuit, an commotae cr'i- 
 mine mentis Absolves hominemf 
 
 891. The veternus (a, symp- 
 tom of brain-disease) and the 
 aqua intercus are repeatedly 
 mentioned by other writers, e.g. 
 Horace and Cicero. 
 
 892. ea is monosyllabic. 
 894. meafide 'on my word'. 
 
108 MENAECHMEI. [V. 5." 6 — 15. 
 
 s6d ego stultus sum, qui illius e'sse dico, quae" meast: 
 905 me6 cibo et sumptu e'ducatust : anima privabtf virum. 
 cdndigne autem haec m^retrix fecit, ut mos est 
 ,--**^\ meretricius : 
 
 quia rogo pallam, lit referatur rursum ad uxor&n 
 
 mearn, 
 mihi se ait dedisse. heu, edepol ne" ego homo viv6 
 miser. io 
 
 Se. aiidin quae loquitur ? Med. se miserum prad- 
 dicat. - Se. adeas velim. 
 910 Med. salvos sis, Menadchme. quaeso, cur apertas 
 bracchium ? 
 n6n tu scis, quantum isti morbo nunc tuo facias 
 
 mali? 
 Me. quin tu te suspdndis ? Se. ecquid se"ntis ? Med. 
 v if.'V quid ni sdntiam? 
 
 non potest haec r^s ellebori unguine optine'rier. 15 
 
 vi om. mss., added by Bergk Beitr. I 70, vita iam B., vitad evol- 
 vam Bticheler and B. Neue PI. Exc. i 64. 904. mea est Camera- 
 rius, mea sit mss. 913. uno unguine Milller (in order to avoid 
 the hiatus) Pros. p. 578. unguine is a splendid emendation of 
 
 does the service of an assevera- even to notice his approach. — 
 tion) see our note on Aul. 565. We should assume that Me- 
 rita evolvere is a somewhat naechmus had buried his head 
 forced expression instead of in his hands, and in so doing 
 ' vita privare. Observe the fre- had uncovered his arm, as his 
 quent. alliterations in this line. pallium would then naturally 
 
 905. edueatust ' fed up ' ; fall back. 
 
 comp. note on v. 98. 912. Menaechmus is in a 
 
 906. For the sense of con- very bad temper, owing to his 
 digne comp. our note on Aul. adventures during the after- 
 462. noon, and therefore returns a 
 
 908. vivo = sum; comp. note somewhat rough answer to the 
 
 on Aul. 416. inquiries of the officious quack. 
 
 910. It is anything but ne- 913. ' This case cannot be 
 
 cessary to assume that a line cured with an ointment of 
 
 has dropped out before this, as hellebore'. The observation is 
 
 was done by Ladewig. The of course addressed to the old 
 
 physician comes upon Menaech- man, and not to Menaechmus. 
 
 mus with his salutation and his Hellebore was used as a sove- 
 
 questions, without leaving him reign remedy against insanity, 
 
 time to answer the first or gee Ilor. Sat. n 3, 82 sq. Ep. 
 
V. 5. 16 — 22.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 109 
 
 se\l quid ais, Menae'chme ? Me. quid vis ? Med. die; 
 
 mihi hoc quod t& rogo: 
 915 album an atrum vlnum potas ? Me. quid tibi quae- 
 
 sit6st opus ? 
 Mm * * * * Me. quiii tu is 
 
 in malam crucem ? 
 Se. iam hercle > occeptat insanire primulum. Me. 
 
 quin tu rogas, 
 purpureum panem an puniceum s61eam ego esse an 
 
 ldteum ? 
 soleamne esse avis squamossas, piscis pennat6s? Se. 
 
 papae, 20 
 
 920 audin tu, ut deliramenta loquitur ? quid cesses dare 
 pdtionis aliquid, prius quam percipit insania? 
 
 Lachmann's, iungere mss. 916. E. supplies mdgni refert qui colos 
 sit. 917. tu rogas Bothe, tu me interrogas mss. 919. squamosa* 
 
 11 2, 137. Lucian, vit. auct. 23 
 01) 6{fj.is yev^ffdai tro(f)6v t rjv jui) 
 rpls ttf>e£T)S rod £\\e(36pov ttLjjs. 
 The proper spelling is without 
 the h, though the dictionaries 
 still prefer to register the word 
 under H. 
 
 916. See our crit. note. Me- 
 naechmus is indignant at these 
 prying questions, as he is not 
 acquainted with the motive 
 which prompts them. The 
 physician would then inform 
 him that the colour of the wine 
 was of great importance for the 
 health of a patient. 
 
 917. The diminutive pri- 
 mulum recurs below v. 1116. 
 See also Ter. Ad. 289. 
 
 919. The spelling squamos- 
 sas is here given by the ms. 
 B, and has therefore been re- 
 tained in our edition, though 
 there is no doubt that Plautus 
 himself did not write so, as the 
 
 doubling of consonants was not 
 practised in his time. But the 
 ss in the suffix osso- is memor- 
 able as a trace of an n originally 
 contained in it, as the archaic 
 form was onso- or rather ontio-, 
 corresponding to the Greek 6«s, 
 i.e. o«r. — See our note on 
 Trin. 37. 
 
 920. deliramenta ' stuff and 
 nonsense', \rjpovs koX tp\uapias. 
 The phrase deliramenta loqui 
 occurs also Amph. II 2, 64. 
 Capt. in 4, 66. 
 
 921. The suffix of the third 
 person sing, it appears long in 
 percipit; see Introd. to AuL p. 
 16. It should, however, be 
 observed that we should expect 
 percipiat, were we to go by the 
 rules of Ciceronian syntax. — 
 For the expression itself, Lam- 
 binus aptly compares Amph. v 
 1, 66 nam mihi horror membra 
 misero percipit dictis tuis. 
 
110 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 [V. 5. 23—29. 
 
 Med. mane modo: etiam peYcon tabor ilia,. Se. occi- 
 
 dis fabulans. 
 Med. die nUW hoc: sole'nt tibi umquam 6culi duri 
 
 fferi? "- v, 
 
 Me. quid ? tu me luedstam censes e"sse, homo igna- 
 
 visssume ? — m 
 
 925 Med. dic\mibi, en umquam intestina tibi .crepant, 
 
 quod sentias? 
 Me. ubi satur sum, nulla crepitant: quando esuvio, 
 
 turn crepant. 
 Med. h6c quidem edepol hau pro insano vdrbum 
 
 respondit mihi. 
 pdrdormiscin tu usque ad lucem ? facilin tu o&dor- 
 
 mis Cubans? 
 
 is the emendation of Italian critics, quam ossas B. 922. fabulam 
 Acidalius, fabulam mss. 924. tun B. after Bothe, against the 
 mss. 925. me hie mimquam m8S., emended by the Italian critics 
 and Gulielmius. 928. tu in the first place om. mss., added by B. 
 dormis curans mss., emended by Scioppius and Acidalius. 929. E. 
 
 922. For oceidis see our note 
 on Aul. 148. The old man is 
 losing patience with the physi- 
 cian's prolonged interrogatory. 
 
 923. ' Do your eyes ever feel 
 hard?' i.e. oppressed with a 
 certain feeling of heaviness. 
 This is likewise a sign of affec- 
 tions of the head and of the 
 brain. 
 
 924. lueusta is a well-attested 
 form instead of locusta. The 
 word is, however, related to the 
 root loqu- (' sound, speak') and 
 properly denotes the ' sounding 
 animal'. Vanicek, Etym. Wort, 
 p. 133. — Lambinus aptly quotes 
 Pliny, N. H. xi 37, 55 loemtis 
 squillisque magna ex parte sub 
 eodem munimento praeduri emi- 
 nent (oculi). 
 
 925. For en umquam comp. 
 note on v. 143. — quod sentias 
 
 ' as far as you can perceive'. 
 
 926. mil Ins frequently stands 
 for an emphatic -non in the 
 comic poets and in the affected 
 style of their imitators in the 
 second century of the Christian 
 era. — Oomp. Cas. rv 3, 6 mihi 
 inanitate iarn dudum intestina, 
 murmurant. 
 
 927. hau pro insano, oi mitA 
 pawbixevov, ' not as a madman 
 would speak', hau is very com- 
 mon in Plautus, but only be- 
 fore consonants. 
 
 928. The physician's ques- 
 tions are exactly the same any 
 practitioner would put now-a- 
 days under similar circum- 
 stances. — facilin = faeilene, ac- 
 cording to the observations 
 made on v. 795. — Cubans ' when 
 you go to bed'. 
 
V. 5. 30 — 38.] MENAECHMEI. Ill 
 
 Me. peVdormisco [si * * * * *: 30 
 930 dbdormisco] si resolvi argentum, quoi de"beo. 
 Med. ******* 
 ******** 
 
 Me. qui te Iuppite"r dique omnes, peVcontator, pe"r- 
 
 duint. 
 Med. nunc homo insanire occeptat. de illis verbis 
 
 cave tibi. 
 935 Se. immo melior nunc quidemst de ve'rbis, praeut 
 
 dudum fuit : 
 nam dudum uxore"m suam esse aie"bat rabiosam 
 
 canem. 
 Me. quid ego dixi ? Se. insanisfo - , inquam. Me. 
 
 egone? Se. tu istic, qui mihi 35 
 
 e'tiam me iunctis quadrigis minitatu's proste'rnere. 
 Me. .******* 
 
 940 Se. egomet baec te vidi facere: egomet haec ted 
 drguo. , 
 ^Me. at ego te sacrum- coronam surrupuisse I6vi 
 scio : 
 
 supplies as follows : — 
 
 perdormisco [si me flore satis complevi Liberi, 
 obdormisco] si resolvi argentum quoi ego debeo. 
 931 sq. ' desunt duo nisi fallor versus, quorum prior simili sen- 
 tentia fuerit oportet atque v. 927, altero denuo Menaechmum per- 
 contabatur medious' B. 933. perdunt mss., emended by Pius. 
 935. nestor B, noster B., melior Brix. 937. imanisti E., insanus 
 mss. 939. ' Menaechmi responsum bio interoiderit neoesse est ' B. 
 940. te mss., ted Guyet, haece te arguo B., who subsequently pre- 
 " ferred ted (N. PI. Exc. 1 37). 941. Iovis mss., Iovis scio E., Iovi 
 
 930. ' I soon fall asleep, man, whom the physician bids 
 
 when no cares as to the pay- beware 6f Menaechmus as soon 
 
 ment of debts weigh upon me '. as he begins to speak in this 
 
 933. For qui in curses and wild and excited manner. — For 
 exclamations see note on v. 308. the prosody of cave see Introd. 
 Trin. 923. — percontator 'inqui- to Aul. p. 24 sq. 
 
 sitive fellow '. Hor. Ep. 1 18, 935. de verbis ' to infer from 
 
 69 percontatorem fugito. his expressions'. — For praeut 
 
 934. de 'with respect to'. see note on v. 376. 
 
 The words de illis verbis cave 941. Menaechmus considers 
 
 tibi are addressed to the old the old man's accusation as 
 
112 MENAECHMEI. [V. 5. 39—45. 
 
 6t ob earn rem in carcerem ted e"sse conpactum 
 
 scio: 
 e't postquam es emissus, caesum virgis sub furca' 
 
 scio : 40 
 
 turn patrem occidisse et matrem vdndidisse etiam 
 
 scio. 
 945 s£tin haec pro sand male dicta male dictis re- 
 
 sp6ndeo ? 
 Se. 6bsecro bercle, me'dice, propere, quidquid fac- 
 
 turu's, face. 
 n6n vides hominem insanire ? Med. scin quid facias 
 
 6ptumumst ? 
 ad me face uti de*feratur. Se. itane censes ? Med. 
 
 quippini ? 45 
 
 scio Camerarius. 942. te deesse B, emended by Camerarius. 943. 
 suffurca Ba. 946. medice the Italian critics, maledice rnss. fac- 
 turns the editions before B. si quid factum, 's face Luchs Hermes 
 vm 118 Bq. 947. optimum E. against the mss. 948. ut id refera- 
 
 quite extravagant and therefore mosthenes testibus probat pa- 
 says that "he might with equal trem in careers deseruisse ac 
 probability and justice bring prodidisse, mortuum' non sepe- 
 similar exaggerated charges livisse, iis qui sepelissent pre- 
 against his father-in-law. For tiumsepulturaenonpersolvisse, 
 the sacrilegious theft mentioned matrem verberasse, sororem 
 in this line we may refer to our vendidisse'. — Observe the ve- 
 note on Trin. 84. hemence of Menaechmus' tone 
 
 942. Lamb, compares Amph. which appears also in the repe- 
 1 1, 3 quid faciam nunc, si ires tition of scio at. the end of each 
 viri me in carcerem compege- line. 
 
 tint ? 947. The construction is 
 
 943. ' Sic caedebantur servi scin quid optumumst facias (= 
 qui aliquidadmiserant'. Lamb, facere in Ciceronian syntax). 
 — es 'thou art' is always long We often find the subj. after 
 in the comic poets, as has been optumumst ; e.g. Aul. 559 sq. 
 previously observed. turn tu idem optumumst Loces 
 
 944. Menaechmus brings the ecferendum. 
 
 gravest and most extravagant 948. quippini (instead of 
 
 charges against his father-in- quippeni, see note on v. 795) 
 
 law. Lambinus cites the exam- means 'why not?' i.e. of course 
 
 pie of Aristogiton, ' quern De- I mean it. 
 
V. 5. 46 — 52.] MENAECHMEI. 113 
 
 ibi meo arbitr£tu potero clirare hominem. Se. age, 
 lit lubet. 
 950 Med. dlleborum pot£bis faxo has aliquos viginti 
 dies. -- .-[> t 
 
 Me. at ego te pende"ntem fodiam stimulis triginta 
 
 dies. 
 Med. i, arcesse homines, qui ilhmc ad me deTerant. 
 Se. quot- sunt satis ? 
 ■ Med. proinde ut insanire video, qu£ttuor, nihil6 
 minus. so 
 
 Se. iam hie erunt. adserva tu istunc, me"dice. Med. 
 immo ego abib6 domum, 
 955 ut parentur, quibus paratis opus est. tu servos 
 iube 
 
 tur CD, ut deferatur B, emended by Acidalius. 950, 51. ' hoc 
 ordine Camerarius, inverso libri, sed ut in BG 2 et 1 numeri prae- 
 positi sint m. rec.' E. 950. hos om. mss., added Jby Miiller and 
 Brix. 952. larcesse mss., emended by Pareus. ilium mss., 
 emended by Camerarius. 954. immo ibo domum B., ibo mss., 
 abibo Schwabe, Brix. 955. tu Schwabe, tuos B, E. 957. mate 
 
 949. meo arbitratu, ' just as i 3, 40 etiam mihi quoque sti- 
 I please ', without any inter- mulo fodere lubet te. In Bacch. 
 ference. v 2, 39 the same phrase is used 
 
 950. hos aliquos viginti dies metaphorically : cor stimulo 
 'the next three weeks or so'. Joditur. 
 
 The addition of aliquis renders 953. As mad people are 
 
 the number somewhat vague ; generally exceedingly strong 
 
 pomp. Pseud, i 3, 49 aliquos hos when etcited to their highest 
 
 dies manta modo. ib. 87 ut pitch, the physician thinks that 
 
 opperiare hos aliquos sex dies four men are wanted to over- 
 
 modo. True, iv 4, 19 amabo ut power Menaechmus. 
 
 hos dies aliquos sinas eum esse 954. The physician is by no 
 
 apud me. means willing to remain alone 
 
 951. Menaechmus threatens with an excited madman. He 
 to flog the physician like a therefore says immo ' no, I think 
 slave. It was usual to hang up I will rather go home '. 
 slaves, put heavy weights to 955. For the construction 
 their feet, and flog them in this quibus paratis opus est (' things 
 manner. See our note on Trin. which it is necessary to have 
 247. stimuli denotes a whip ready') see n. on v. 753. 
 
 with pricks in it. Comp. Cure. 
 
 W. M. ,8 
 
114 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [V. 5. 53 — 58. 
 
 hunc ad me ferant. Se. iam ego illic faxo erit. 
 
 Med. abeo. Se. vale. 
 Me. £biifc socerus, ^Lbiit medicus : s61us sum. pro 
 
 Iuppiter," 
 quid illuc est, quod nunc me hisce homines insanire 
 
 prae"dicant ? 55 
 
 nam e'quidem, postquam gn£tus sum, numquam 
 
 aegrotavi untim diem. 
 960 ndque ego insanid neque pugnas ego nee litis coepio. 
 salvos salvos dlios video : prdbe novi homines, id- 
 " loquor. 
 
 solus sum mss., emended by Weise, E. s6lus nunc sum . pr6 Iovis 
 Biicheler Eh. Mus. xv 445. 958. nunc here om. mss., which give 
 it in the preceding line, here added by Mtiller Nachtr. 86. hice me 
 E., me hie mss., me hisce Brix. 960. ego nee E., neque ego mss. 
 961,. probe om. mss., added by the present Editor, novi ego B. 
 
 956. In prose we should say 
 hunc ad me ferre. Instead of 
 the regular construction with 
 the infinitive, the subj. is used 
 here as if the injunction were 
 given in a direct form. Brix 
 aptly compares Most, m 3, 26 
 curriculo iube in urbem veniat. 
 Eud. in 4, 3. Persa iv 4, 55. 
 Stich. 11 2, 71. Ter. Eun. iv 4, 
 24. We find also that iubere 
 takes the same construction as 
 imperare; comp. Amph. 1 1, 50 
 Telebois iubet sentenfiam ut 
 die ant suam. See also Holtze, 
 Svnt. 1 p. 254. 
 
 957. Plautus uses the full 
 form of the nominative socerus 
 here and Cas. iv 2, 18, but below 
 v. 1046 he has socer. Comp. 
 Kiihner, Ausf. _Gr. 1 p. 278 sq. 
 
 958. hisce is the regular form 
 of the nom. plural in Plautus, 
 not hice. Compare our note on 
 Trin. 877. 
 
 959. The original form of the 
 participle gnatus is generally 
 used by Plautus as a noun, and 
 
 natus would seem to be more 
 usual as the actual participle. 
 
 960. ego ' I myself ' — unless 
 others be the first to begin, I 
 do not easily get into a quarrel. 
 — coepio is of course inadmissi- 
 ble in later Latin, but coepere 
 occurs Pers. 1 3, 41. coepiat 
 True, n 1, 21. coeperet Ter. 
 Ad. hi 3, 43. coepiam also 
 Caec. ap. Non. p. 89. Cato ap. 
 Paul. Festi p. 59. See Neue, 
 Formenl. 11 p. 616. The verb 
 is derived from the root ap (in 
 ap-isc-i) and coepio therefore = 
 co-ip-i-o. 
 
 961. The first salvos is the 
 nominative (with a short o),the 
 second the accusative of the 
 plural (with a long 0). — In 
 probe the suffix of the adverb is 
 often used short by Plautus, as 
 it commonly is in bene and 
 male. — We have added probe in 
 the text against the authority 
 of the mss., as we do not deem 
 it probable that Plautus em- 
 ployed the form homones. 
 
V. 5. 59 — 6. 5.] MENAECHMEI. 115 
 
 an illi, perperam insaniro qui aiurrt me, ipsi in- 
 
 saniunt "h 
 quid ego nunc faciam? domum ire cupio: at uxor 
 " n6n sinit ; 60 
 
 hue autem nemo intro mittit. nimis proventumst 
 ne'quiter. 
 965 hie ero usque: adn6ctem saltern, cre'do, intro mittar, 
 domum. 
 
 970 
 
 Messenio. (Menaechmvs I.) 
 spectamen bon6 servo id est, qui rem erilem 
 
 procurat, vide't, collocat, cogitatque, [V 6. 
 ut absente ero rem sui eri dilige'nter 
 
 tutdtur, quam si ipse adsit, aut rectius. 
 tergum quam gulanvcrura quam ventrem op6r- 
 tet •*>■•-'■ i ' • 5 
 
 homones Brix. 962. qui om. mss., added by E. 963. atom, mss., 
 added by Camerarius. 965. ero Bothe, ergo mss. 968. er . re . . 
 
 964. hue, ' in aedes Erotii '. 
 — nimis proventumst nequiter 
 'I have had awful bad luck' — • 
 to translate a conversational 
 phrase in a conversational man- 
 ner. Comp. Bud. iij 5, 57 
 edepol proveni nequiter multis 
 modis. Stieh. n 2, 73 provenisti 
 futtile ('nihil aliud significat 
 quam nihil effecisti, frustra es ' 
 Boxhobn). True, n 4, 33 quom 
 bene provenisti, gaudeo. n 6, 
 35 quom ta recte provenisti, 
 gmtulor. (Pareus, Lex. PI. p. 
 376. Weise, Lex. PI. p. 112.) 
 
 Act V. Sc. vi. Messenio, the 
 servant of Menaechmus Sosicles, 
 appears in search of his master. 
 He mistakes Menaechmus of 
 Epidamnus (whom the slaves 
 attempt to carry off by force to 
 the physician's house) for his 
 master and rescues him out of 
 their hands. For this service 
 
 he demands his liberty — which 
 Menaechmus of Epidamnus 
 tells him he shall have, as far 
 as it is in his power to bestow 
 it, though Messenio is quite 
 unknown to him. Menaechmus 
 then enters Erotium's house 
 (v. 1048) to try once more, if 
 she will not let him have the 
 robe back to return it to his 
 wife. — Messenio first recites a 
 monologue, the like of which is 
 found in more than one place of 
 the comedies of Plautua, e.g. 
 at the commencement of the 
 fourth act of the Aulularia. 
 
 966. spectamen, ' the means 
 of trying ', a proof. The nature 
 of the proof itself is detailed in 
 v. 968 in the epexegetical sen- 
 tence beginning with ut. 
 
 969. quam si = quasi or tam- 
 quam. — aut rectius 'or even 
 better '. 
 
 8—2 
 
116 
 
 MENAECHMEI. 
 
 [V. 6. 6—13. 
 
 poti6ra esse, quo! cor mode'ste situmst. 
 recordetur id, 
 qui nihili sunt, quid is preti 
 
 detur ab suis eris, 
 ignavis, improbis viris. 
 verbera, compede's, molae 
 975 magna Jassitudo, - w 
 
 fame's, frigus durum : 
 haec previa sunt ignaviae. id ego malum male 
 me'tuo. 
 
 [propterea bonum esse ce'rtumst potius quam 
 malum.] 
 
 ri Ba. emended by E. 972. qui nihili sunt mss. I follow Brix. 
 E. reads in one line : 
 
 , recdrdetur qui sunt nihili, is quid, preti detur db suis eris. 
 973. ' haec interprets esse certuna est ' E. who has these words 
 in brackets. As it did not appear ' eertum ' to me, I have removed 
 the brackets. 974 sq. B gives in one line — 
 
 Verbera eompedes Mole magna lassitudo fames frigus durum, 
 which I have divided into three lines, in accordance with Spengel, 
 de vers. cret. usu PI. p. 13. E. reads 
 
 verbSra, compede's, 
 
 molae, lassitudo, famfis, frigus durum, 
 
 and Brix also omits magna. 976. male malum B. 977. ' vix 
 
 Plautinus, vel hoc certe loco non Plautinus ' E. who transposes 
 
 971. potior a, Kpelrra. 'He 
 whose heart is right, "Will think 
 his back of greater consequence 
 Than is his gullet : ay, and to 
 his belly Prefer his legs '. War- 
 neb. — The words cor modeste 
 situmst, though not unintel- 
 ligible of themselves, are still 
 very strange when considered as 
 Latin ; at least, we do not else- 
 where find an expression exact- 
 ly parallel to the one in our 
 text. Bergk proposes therefore 
 cor mode'ste modestumst — which 
 would be a reading quite in 
 harmony with the general style 
 of Plautus. 
 
 972. qui nihili sunt=ol m- 
 
 Sh fores, 'worthless fellows'. 
 We often read homo nihili. 
 Compare also v. 973, where it 
 has even been conjectured that 
 the words ignavis imprdbis viris 
 are merely a foreign interpre- 
 tation of this line. 
 
 974. We often find the pis- 
 trinum ('the pounding-mill'') 
 mentioned among the places of 
 punishment for refractory or 
 careless slaves. In the present 
 line, Persa i 1, 22 {fui praefer- 
 ratus apud molas tribunus va- 
 pularis) and Pseud, iv 6, 38 
 {ut det nomen ad molas coloniam) 
 this is designated by molae. 
 
 976. malum 'punishment'. 
 
V. 6. 14 — 21.] MENAECHMEI. 
 
 117 
 
 magis multo patior facilius ego ve"rba, verbera 
 
 6di: 
 nimidque edo lubentius molitum quam molitum 
 
 praehibeo. is 
 
 980 propteYea . eri imperium e'xsequor, bene e"t sedate 
 
 servo id : 
 edque exemplo seYvio, tergo in rem ut arbitro 
 
 atque id mini prodest. alii, ut esse in suam rem 
 
 ducunt, ita sint : 
 
 ego ita ero, ut me esse op6rtet. id si adhibeam, 
 
 culpam abstineam, 
 
 ero meo ut omnibus in locis sim praesto, metuam 
 
 » baud inultum. ' , 20 
 
 985 propest, quando haec mea meus erus ob facta 
 
 pretium exs61vet. 
 
 propUrea bonum certumst pdtius quam malum Isse. 978. nam 
 magis mss. ego om. B. 979. quam praehibeo a me E against 
 the mss. 981. 'hue transposui quem libri exhibent post 
 v. 985 ' E. eoque E. ego mss. 982. esse ita ut in rem esse ducunt^ 
 sint B, emended by E. 983. metum id mihi adhibeam culpa absti- 
 neam B. I follow E. 984. meo om. mss., added by G. Hermann. 
 985. mea meus added by E. The ms. B reads cmafido ceruso 
 
 978. For comparatives em- Gr. 1 p. 595. , A#e may add the 
 phasized by an additional magis general observation that many 
 
 deponerrifverbs occur -in archaic 
 Latin-in an active form. 
 
 ;983. id si adhibeam 'if I 
 maintain this principle' cul- 
 pam abstinere lit. 'to keep blame 
 away', abstinere is often used 
 in Plautus as a transitive ver%, 
 though we also find the con- 
 struction with the ablative. 
 (Brix gives in his note numerous 
 instances of the different con- 
 structions of this verb.) See 
 also our note on Aul. 342. 
 
 984. ero ut sim praesto 'as 
 long as I am ready' for my 
 master's orders. 
 
 985. This line is to prepare 
 ns for Messenio's subsequent 
 
 see our note on Aul. 419. — The 
 play on the words verba and 
 verbera is quite in keeping with 
 the character of comic language. 
 See Ter. Haut. 356. 
 
 979. 'I rather like to eat 
 that which has been ground by 
 others, than grind myself what 
 others are to eat'. E. Warner. 
 
 981. eo exemplo is merely an 
 amplification of a simple ita. — 
 servio 'conduct myself as a 
 slave'. — in rem est is a common 
 phrase ' it advantages, it is pro- 
 fitable'. — arbitro is repeatedly 
 met with in archaic Latin, in- 
 stead of arbitror. See the pas- 
 sages quoted by Kuhner, Ausi. 
 
118 
 
 MENAECipHtf^ [V. 6. 22—7. 4. 
 
 postquam io tabernam vdsa et servos c6nlocavi, ut 
 
 ilisserat, 
 ita ve'nio advprsum. nunc forjs pultabo, adesse ut 
 
 me" sciat, h->^~^ 
 
 &tque eum ex hoc s£ltu damni salvom ut educam , , 
 
 foras. • 2s 
 
 se'd metuo ne seVo veniam de"pugnato proelio. 
 
 Senex. Menaechmvs I. Lobaeii. Messenio. 
 
 990 Se. per ego vobis de6s atque homines dico, ut 
 
 imperium meum V 7. 
 
 sapienter habeatis curae, quae fmperavi atque im- 
 
 pero. 
 facite illic homo iam in medicinam ablatus sub- j «, 
 
 limis siet : ••^ 
 
 nisi quidem vos v6stra crura aut l£tera nihili pen- 
 
 ditis. 
 
 request to be manumitted. It 
 appears that he has long since 
 conceived hopes of obtaining 
 his freedom. 
 
 987. We should understand 
 ita, ut iusserat, venio advorsum 
 ('I come to fetch him and con- 
 duct Mm home '; comp. note on 
 v. 437). 
 
 988. Messenio calls Ero- 
 tium's house a saltus damni, 
 'a mountain-pass of loss'. In 
 a saltus — i. e. a woody moun- 
 tain-pass — it is easy to lay an 
 ambush for an unwary traveller. 
 Compare also the following line, 
 in which the expression depug- 
 nato proelio refers to the skir- 
 mish, in which the attacked 
 traveller is supposed to have 
 engaged with the robbers who 
 had lain in ambush for him. 
 
 Act V. Sc. vn. 990. For the 
 collection of the words per ego 
 
 vobis deos atque homines dico 
 comp. Ter. Andr. 834 per ego te 
 deos oro and ournote on ib. v. 538. 
 
 991. sapienter is not exactly 
 equivalent in this place to dili- 
 genter. The old man means 
 that there is a certain cunning 
 and cleverness (sapientia) re- 
 quired for catching and over- 
 powering a madman like Me- 
 naechmus. 
 
 992. medicina ' surgery'. — 
 sublimis denotes that the" slaves 
 are to lift up Menaechmus and 
 thus carry him to the phy- 
 sician's house. 
 
 993. 'Unless you think little 
 of the punishment I shall in- 
 flict upor/you in case you do 
 not carrjjrout my commands'. 
 Lamb, justly explains 'nisi qui- 
 dem vos vestra crura compe- 
 dibus vinciri aut latera virgis 
 ac loris variari vultis '.. 
 
120 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [V. 7. 15—22. 
 
 o f&cinus indignum 4t malum, is 
 
 1005 Epidamnii civds, erum meum hie in pacato <5ppido 
 luci derupier in via, qui liber ad vos ve'nerit. 
 mittite istunc. Me. dpsecro te, quisqui's, operam mi 
 
 lit duis, i 
 
 neu sinas in me insignjte fieri tan tarn iniuriam. 
 Mes. immo operam dabo 6t defendam et stibvenibo 
 se'dulo. 20 
 
 1010 numquam te patiar perire : m.6 perirest ae'quius. 
 ^ripe oculum istic, ab umero qui tenet te, ere, 
 opsecro. 
 
 1007. mittit . is tunc B, mittitis tunc C, emended by Grater, quis- 
 quis the editions before E. miKi ut des B, mihi uides CD, emended 
 by E. 1009. et operam mss., et om. Guyet. 1010 me derideres te 
 cuius B, emended by Camerarius. 1011. isti te Bothe, It., isti mss., 
 istic Fleckeisen. tenet, ere, te obsecro E. ; our reading is due to 
 
 1020. — audet apparently=«oM, 
 though in the present case some 
 daring is also required for the 
 emergency. — audeo was first 
 added by Schwabe, in harmony 
 ■with the style of Plautus who 
 is fond of joining verbs and 
 adverbs derived from the same 
 root. 
 
 1005. ' in pacato oppido dixit 
 amplificationis causa [for the 
 sake of increased emphasis], ut 
 et ilia quae secuntur, luci, in 
 via, qui liber venerit. nam si 
 quis in oppido hostili et quod 
 bello ardeat sublimis feratur, 
 minus mirum minusque indig- 
 num sit'. Lamb. 
 
 1006. For the ablative luci 
 which is always used adver- 
 bially, compare our note on 
 Aul. 741. — derupier = deripier, 
 deripi, see our note on Aul. 39. 
 
 1007. In pronouncing the 
 three lines 1004, 5, and 6, 
 Messenio traverses the whole 
 length of the stage, from Ero- 
 tium's house towards which he 
 
 had previously bent his steps, 
 to the place where Menaechmus 
 had been attacked by the slaves ; 
 he has now reached them and 
 begins to attack the slaves, when 
 saying mittite — quisqui's = quis- 
 quis es 'whoever you may be'. — 
 operam mi ut duis. 'to lend me 
 your assistance'. — duis is a 
 Plautine form instead of des, as 
 has been previously observed. 
 
 1008. insignite=insigni ex- 
 emplo 'in such an atrocious 
 manner'. — The same phrase as 
 here occurs Eud. in 2, 29. Cas. 
 v i, 31. Poen. m 6, 14. Mil. 
 gl. ii 6, 77. imsignite inique 
 Eud. iv 4, 53. This adverb 
 occurs also in Cieero. (Pareus, 
 Lex. PI. p. 224. Lex. Crit. p. 
 617.) 
 
 1009. sedulo =diligenter, 'to 
 the best of my power '. 
 
 1010. numquam is a strong 
 negation instead of a simple 
 non, just as we use never in 
 order to emphasize a negation. 
 
 1011. istic is the dative = is- 
 
122 MENAEC&MEI. [V. 7. 30—37 
 
 nimis bene ora c6mmetavi atque e"x mea sen- 
 
 tentia. 30 
 
 1020 edepol, ere,.ne tibi suppetias te"mperi advenl mode 
 Me. at tibi di semper, adulescens, quisquis es, fa- 
 
 ciant bene : 
 nam Absque te esset, h6die numqnam ad solem oc- 
 
 casum viverem. 
 Mes. ergo edepol, si recte facias, ere, raed emitt&s 
 
 manu. 
 Me. liberem,.ego te ? Mes. verum, quando equidem, 
 
 ere, te servavl Me. quid est ? 35 
 
 1025 Adulescens, erras. Mes. quid erro ? Me. peV Iovem 
 
 adiurd patrem, 
 raid erum tu6m non esse. Mes. n6n taces ? Me. non 
 
 mentior: 
 
 BCD, B. 1019. aut bene msa., aut om. E. commetaui BaC, com- 
 mentaui BbDFZ and most old editions, commutaui Pius. 1020. 
 tempore mss., emended by B. 1022. namque B (not the other 1 
 hiss.), ted esset, rmmquam hodie E. against the mss. 1023. me 
 
 dere=decedere: 'quiapostremus ficisci and ire. — temperi 'just 
 
 discedis, hoc praemii ref eres '. in time ' : Bee note on Aul. 
 
 Lamb. 471. 
 
 1019. nimis 'very'. — comrne- 1021. Menaechmus employs 
 tare is dljr. \ey. We should the same words as above v. 
 understand it as a compound 1007, to express his ignorance 
 of metare or metari 'to mete of the name of his liberator, 
 out, to measure'. Messenio 1022. absque te esset=si tu 
 says that he has well measured non esses. This is very f re- 
 over their faces with his fists. quent in Plautus. See note on 
 See, however, crit. note. — ex Trin. 832. — For the expression 
 mea sententia 'to my heart's ad solem occasum see above v. 
 content'. 437. 
 
 1020. suppetias advenio 'I 1023. recte 'justly' — if you 
 come to your assistance'; the wish tq do what's right. Comp. 
 accusative should be explained v. 985. 
 
 on the same principle as in the 1024. Each single word of 
 
 phrases infitias ire, venum ire. Menaechmus' question should 
 
 In the work on the Bellum be pronounced emphatically 
 
 Africanum, which is written in and with a kind of pause after 
 
 quaint and rather antiquated it. He is greatly surprised at 
 
 phraseology, we meet with the the request and says, 'what, I 
 
 phrases suppetias venire, pro- am to bestow on you your free- 
 
124 MENAECHMEI. [V. 7. 46 — 53. 
 
 1035 mane me : nunc ibo in tabernam, v£sa atque argen- 
 tum tibi 
 reTeram. rectest dbsignatum in vidulo marsuppium 
 cum viatico : id tibi iam hue ddferam. Me. adfer 
 
 stre'nue. 
 Mes. salvom tibi item, ut mihi dedisti, re'ddibo : tu 
 
 hie m6 mane. 
 Me. nimia mira mihi quidem hodie exdrta sunt 
 
 miris modis, 50 
 
 1040 [alii me negant eum esse qui sum atque excludunt 
 
 foras, 
 alii me esse aiunt qui non sum, ac servos se esse 
 
 me6s volunt] 
 vel ille servom s6 meum esse aibat, quem ego modo 
 
 emisi manu. 
 
 te mss. 1035. mane me Acidalius, minime mss. 1036. ' Bequitur 
 in BCVFZ versus 1044, suo loco iteratus : delevit Pylades ' E. 
 1037. id ego tibi iam hue B. 1038. reddebo mss., reddibo Nonius. 
 tu om. mss., added by B. 1039. nimium E. against the mss. 
 1040 sq. rejected by P. Langen Philol. xxx 434 sqq. 1042. vil ille 
 qui se fitere argentum ait, quem igo modo emisi manu B. (vel ille 
 qui se petere modo argentum modo qui seruum se meum Esse aiebat 
 
 1035. For the prosody of the same future from Cas. 1 41. 
 mdne eomp. Introd. to Aul. p. It occurs also in a fragment of 
 25 sq. — If we had to deal with the Vidularia preserved by 
 a prose writer or even with a Priscian vi 32, p. 224, H. See 
 more artistic poet, we should, Kiihner, Ausf. Gr. 1. p. 480. 
 perhaps, be inclined to insert 1039. nimia mira ' very 
 ut after argentum. But the strange things '. In this phrase 
 conversational language of the mirum is treated as a substan- 
 Plautine comedies is fond of tive. Comp. Amph. n 1, 69. 
 placing short coordinated sen- v 1, 53. tanta mira occurs 
 tenoes in close continuity. Cas. in 5, 5. Amph. v 1, 5. 
 
 1036. obsignatum ' signo seu 1040, 41 should be rejected 
 anulo cerae impresso clausum, as an interpolation or rather as 
 obsignabantur hoc modo non a dittographia of v. 1042 and 
 modo tabellae, sed etiam la- 1046. 
 
 goenae, cistellae, viduli, cellae 1042. vel serves to intro- 
 
 et similia'. Lamb. duce an illustration of the 
 
 1038. reddibo = reddam is preceding observation. Comp. 
 
 attested in the present passage above, v. 873. 
 by Nonius p. 476, who quotes 
 
126 MENAECHMEL [V. 8. 3—9. 1. 
 
 e*ripui, homines qu6m ferebant te" sublimem qu£ttuor, 
 apud hasce aedis. tu clamabas deiim fidem atque 
 
 hominum omnium, 
 qu6m ego acourro te"que eripio vi pugnando, ingr£- 
 
 tiis. b 
 
 1055 6b earn rem, quia te" servavi, me amisisti Ifberum. 
 quom £rgentum -dixi me petere et v£sa, tu quantum 
 
 potest Qjl^. •■! 
 
 pra^cucurristi 6bviam, ut quae fe'cisti, infin£s eas. 
 Me. liberum ego te iussi- abire ? Mes. cdrto. Me. 
 
 quin certlssumumst, 
 mepte potius fieri servom, quam te umquam emit- 
 
 tam manu. 10 
 
 Menaechmvs I. Messenio. Menaechmvs IL 
 
 1060 Me. I. sultis per oculds iurare, nihilo hercle ea causa 
 1 magis V 9. 
 
 our orit. note on Trin. 130), sec w B, setius G. 1052. quom B,, 
 quia mss. sublimen B, E., suplimem C. 1054. vi Camerarius, 
 vel in mss. 1058. cui mss., quin Saracenus. 1060. sultis B., si 
 
 1053. clamabas=magnavoce we should, perhaps, rather ex - 
 implorabas. pect quae dixeras. But the ex- 
 
 1054. , The historical present pression in the text has the 
 is frequently found in Plautus same sense as facta tua. 
 
 after quom, instead of the per- 1059. The accusative mepte 
 
 feet. — ingratiis (the Plautine seems to appear only here. For 
 
 form — he never uses ingratis) the other formations of this 
 
 ' significat hoc loco, invitis iis kind see Kiihner, Ausf . G. I p. 
 
 qui te sublimem ferebant'. 383. 
 
 Lamb. Act V. Sc. rx. Menaechmus 
 
 1055. amittere is repeatedly of Epidamnus comes out of Ero- 
 used by Plautus in the sense of - tium's house. Messenio sees 
 dimittere. Comp. iussi abire him, and greatly surprised at 
 v. 1058. / the sudden appearance of the 
 
 1056. The present infinitive two Menaechmi, he succeeds at . 
 me petere is used in the sense length in establishing that these 
 of the future — a usage not at two men are twin brothers, and 
 all uncommon in the easy and that the long-lost brother has 
 somewhat negligent style of been found by his master. The 
 Latin comedy. twin brothers mutually recog- 
 
 1057. Instead of quae fecisti nise eaoh other, and Messenio, 
 
V. 9. 2 — 11.] MKNAECHMEI. 
 
 127 
 
 facietis ut ego h6die abstulerim pallam et spinter, 
 
 pe'ssumae. 
 Mes. di immortales, quid ego video ? Me. II. quid 
 
 vides? Mes. speculum tuom. , 
 Me. II. quid negotist ? Mes. tuast imago : tam con- 
 
 similist quam potest. 
 Me. II. p61 profecto haud e"st dissimilis, meam quom 
 
 formam ndscito. 5 
 
 1065 Me. I. 6 adulescens, salve qui me seVvavisti, quis- 
 
 quis es. 
 Mes. a\lulescens, quaeso heVcle, eloquere tu6m mihi 
 
 nomen, nisi piget. 
 Me. I. ndri edepol ita prdmeruisti 6.6 me, ut pigeat 
 
 quad velis 
 dloqui. mihist Menaechmo ndmen. Me. II. immo 
 
 edep61 mihi. 
 Me. I. Siculus sum Sur£cusanus. Me. II. eadem 
 
 urbs et patriast mihi. io 
 
 1070 Me. I. quid ego ex te audio 1 Me. II. hoc quod res 
 
 est. Mes. n6vi equidem hunc: erus e"st meus. 
 
 voltis mss. 1062. pro di mss., pro om. E. 1064. quom Acidalius, 
 quam mss. 1066. loquere mss., emended by Fleckeisen. 1067. 
 me depolita Bb, edepo I ita Ba, Camerarius. 1068. eloqui om. mss., 
 added by Fleckeisen, E. 1069. ea domus et patria est mss., 
 
 in recompence for being instru- 1067 sq. ' You have so well 
 
 mental in the discovery, re- deserved of me, that I must 
 
 ceives his freedom from his needs at onoe comply with your 
 
 real master. request '. 
 
 1060. sultis=8i voltis, just 1069. urbs refers to Syra- 
 as sis=si vis. 'per oculos iu- cuse, patria to Sicily. (See 
 rare dixit, quia nihil fere est crit, note.) 
 oculis carius...alloquitur Ero- 1070. hoc quod res est 'no- 
 tium et eius ancillam Menaech- thing but the simple truth '.— 
 mus surreptus : cui assevera- In the following speech of Mes- 
 bant atque adeo iurabant illae senio's, the demonstrative pro- 
 se pallam et spinter dedisse, ut nouns are always explained by 
 ea curaret reconoinnanda '., an accompanying gesture. Mes- 
 Lamb. senio, however, mistakes Me- 
 
 1065. Comp. v. 1007 and naechmus of Epidamnus for 
 
 1021. his master. 
 
128 MENAECHMEI. [V. 9. 12—22. 
 
 ego quidem huius servos sum, sed raed esse huius 
 
 cre'didi. 
 hunc censebam t4 esse : huic etiaui dxhibui nego- 
 
 tium. 
 quae"so ignoscas, si quid stulte dixi atque inprudens 
 
 tibi. 
 Me. II. delirare mihi videre. non commeministi semul 
 1075 te h6die mecum exire ex navi ? Mes. e"nim vero 
 
 'aequom p6stulas. 16 
 
 tli erus es : tu servom quaere, tu salveto : tu vale, 
 hunc ego esse ai6 Menaechmum. Me. I. i,t ego me. 
 
 Me. II. quae haec fabulast ? 
 tu's Menaechmus?- Me. I. me* esse dico, M6scho 
 
 -prognatum patre. 
 Me. II. tun meo patre"'s prognatus % Me. I. immo 
 
 equidem, adulesce'ns, meo. 20 
 
 1080 tudm tibi neque 6ccupare ne"que praeripere p6stulo. 
 Mes. di immortales, spem insperatam date mihi, 
 
 quam suspicor. 
 
 emended by Biicheler. eadem pol patriast mihi B. 1071. me mss., 
 med Pareus. sed Indus me esse B. 1072. ego hunc mss., ego om. 
 B. We should perhaps insert hie after etiam. 1079. tun ameo B, 
 emended by Pylades. 1080. tuum tibi ego B. against the mss. 
 1081. quam insperatam spem datismi, ut suspicor 'R. against, the 
 
 1072. exhibuinegotium,Tpdy- of Syracuse, and those which 
 lna.Ta irapiaxo", by asking him follow to Menaechmus of Epi- 
 for my freedom. damnus. Messenio means ' if 
 
 1073. stulte atque imprudens yon wish to have a servant, you 
 =per stultitiam atque impru- must try to find one — as I am 
 dentiam. In a more polished no servant of yours'.. 
 
 style we should either have to 1077. fabula 'talk'. 
 
 say stultus atque imprudens, or 1081. date 'grant', a sense 
 
 stulte atque imprudenter. it often bears in prayers and 
 
 1074. We should join semul invocations. — spes should be 
 mecum 'together with me '. understood very emphatically 
 
 1075. aequom postulas 'you so as to mean 'the fulfilment 
 raise a just demand' in saying of the hope'. — quam suspicor= 
 that I ought to remember our qualem hanc esse suspicor ' such 
 joint arrival in this town. as I think this will prove'. Brix 
 
 1076. The words tu erus es compares Bud. iv 4, 47 si qui- 
 aro addressed to Menaechmus dem hie lenonis eiust vidulus, 
 
V. 9. 23 — 32.] MENAECHMET. 129 
 
 nam nisi me animus fallit, hi sunt ge*mini germani 
 
 duo : 
 nam e*t patriam et patrdm commemoiant pariter qui 
 
 fuerint sibi. 
 se*vocabo ertim. Menaechme. Me. Ambo. quid vis ? 
 
 Mes. non ambds volo, 25 
 
 1085 se'd erum : uter vostrumst advectus mdcum navi ? 
 
 Me. I. n6n ego. 
 Me. II. at ego. Mes. te volo igitur, hue concede. 
 
 Me. II. concessi. quid est? 
 Mes. illic homo aut est sucophanta aut geminus est 
 
 frateV tuos. 
 nam hominem hominis similiorem numquam vidi ego 
 
 alterurn, 
 ndque aqua aquae neque lactest lactis, mihi crede, 
 
 usquam similius, 30 
 
 1090 quam hie tuist tuque huius autem; poste eandem 
 
 patriam ac patrem 
 me'morat. meliust n6s adire atque hunc percon- 
 
 tarier. 
 
 mss. 1083. patrem et matrem mss., emended by Lipsius. 1085- 
 sed uter vostrorumst B., but vostrum est the mss., emended by 
 Bergk in the Halle program 1858 — 59 p. vm. 1087. est om. mss., 
 added by E. 1088. nam ego hominem and vidi alteram mss. , cor- 
 rected by Bothe. homini mss., emended- by Wesenberg. 1089. 
 lacti mss., emended by B. crede mihi mss., transposed by Linge. 
 similiust E. against the mss. 1090. postea mss. , emended by E. 
 
 quern suspicor, and Ter. Haut. gl. 11 2, 85, and Bacch. v 2, 10. 
 
 it 1, 1 nisi me animus fallit, hie He never uses lac. — The ex- 
 
 profectost anulus quern ego sus- pression was proverbial, as ap- 
 
 picor. pears from the passages just 
 
 1084. non umbos ' not both quoted, 
 at once '. 1090. autem ' on the other 
 
 1088. similis and its com- hand'; comp. above v. 777. — 
 pounds always govern the geni- For poste see on v. 839. It in- 
 tive in archaic Latin. See the troduces a second argument, 
 excellent discussion of this like lirfira in Greek. — eandem 
 point by Eitschl, Opusc. 11 570 is disyllabic, by way of syni- 
 sqq. zesis. 
 
 1089. Plautus uses the nom. 1091. melhist, afieivJv ion, 
 lacte in the present place, Mil. ' it is advisable '. 
 
 W. M. 9 
 
130 MENAECHMEI. [V. 9. 33—42. 
 
 Me. II. he*rcle qui tu me £dmonuisti re"cte et habeo 
 
 gratiam. 
 perge operam dare, • dpsecro hercle. liber esto, si 
 
 invenis 
 hunc meum fratrem 6sse. Mes. spero. Me. II. e"t 
 
 ego idem sperd fore. 35 
 
 1095 Mes. quid ais tu? Menae"chmum opinor te vocari 
 
 dixeras. 
 Me. I. ita vero. Mes. huic item Menaechmo ndmen 
 
 est. in Sicilia 
 te" Suracusis natum esse dixisti : hie natust ibi. 
 Mdschum tibi patre'm fuisse dixisti : huic itidem fuit. 
 nunc operam potestis ambo mihi dare et vobis 
 
 simul. 40 
 
 1100 Me. I. prdmeruisti ut ne" quid ores, qudd velis quin 
 
 impetres. 
 tam quasi me emeris argento, liber servibd tibi. 
 
 1092. quin B. against the mss. 1095. agis B, ais D. 1098. dixit 
 
 BaC, dixsti Bb, dixisti Guyet. 1101. tamquasi BGDa, tamquam 
 si DbFZ, E. emeris me Pylades, me emeris mss. 1102. inventwos 
 
 1092. In hercle qui we no- promeruisti (' you have so well 
 
 tiee the same employment of the deserved of me') ne quid ores 
 
 ablative of the indefinite pro- quin impetres {id) quod velis 
 
 noun in an asseverative sense (' that you can never ask me 
 
 as in edepol qui. See also our ft>r anything without having 
 
 notes on Aul. 346 and Trin. your wish granted by me'). 
 
 464. 1101. We observe the same 
 
 1095. In saying quid ais tu, construction as here in a line of 
 Messenio turns to Menaechmus Terence, Ad. 534, tam placidum 
 of Epidamnus and begins his quasi ovem reddo, where see 
 cross-examination. our note. It is evident that 
 
 1096. ita vero {dixeram) the derivation of quasi from 
 'yes, indeed'. Comp. v. 1108. quam si may still be traced in 
 
 1099. operam dare alicui these passages. — liber ' though 
 means both ' to listen ntten- free ' I will consider myself your 
 tively to some one' and ' to be slave, servibo is one of the 
 active in the interest of some archaic futures of the fourth 
 person'. Both senses are com- conjugation, so common in 
 bined in the present passage. Flautus. 
 
 1100. The construction is 
 
V. 9. 43 — 55.] MENAECHMEI. 131 
 
 Mes. sp^s mihist, vos inventurum fr^tres germands 
 
 duos 
 geminos, una m&tre natos e*t patre uno un6 di,e. 
 Me. I. mira memoras. utinam efficere, qudd pol- 
 
 licitu's, pdssies. 45 
 
 1 105 Mes. possum, sed nunc %ite, uterque id, qudd 
 
 rogabo, dicite. 
 Me. I. ubi lubet, roga: rdspondebo, nil reticebo qudd 
 
 sciam. 
 Mes. dst tibi nome*n Menaecbmo ? Me. I. f&teor. 
 
 Mes. est itid^m tibi ? 
 Me. II. e'st. Mes. patrem fuisse Moscbum tibi ais ? 
 
 Me. I. ita vero. Me. II. e^ mihi. 
 Mes. e*sne tu Sur£cusanus ? Me. I. ce'rto. Mes. 
 
 quid tu ? Me. II. quippini ? 50 
 
 1110 Mes. dptume usque adhuc conveniunt signa. porro 
 
 operam date, 
 quid longissume' meministi, die mihi, in patria tua ? 
 Me. I. cum patre ut abii Tarentum &d mercatum, 
 
 pdstea 
 inter homines me' deerrare k patre atque inde avehi. 
 Me. II. Iiippiter supreme, serva me". Mes. quid 
 
 clamas ? quin taces ? 55 
 
 mss., emended by Lambinus. 1104. possis mss., corrected by 
 Camerarius. 1107. estne B. -twice against the mss. 1112. habi- 
 tarem . turn B, apiit arentum C, abii tarentum, D. 1113. med 
 
 1102. In prose : me vos in- back as possible'. 
 
 venturum esse. 1112. postea is, properly 
 
 1105. For the syntax of speaking, unnecessary, but 
 uterque dicite we may refer to Plautus often commences an 
 our note on v. 779. apodosis with it. Wemaycom- 
 
 1106. For roga comp. our pare Iweira in Greek after a 
 Introd. to Aul. p. 24. —sciam is participle (here e.g. iropevBeis 
 the future, not the subj. els Hdpavra peri, tov rarplts 
 
 1109. certo ' undoubtedly '. tireiT oW Srt A.ircTr\avJiBiiv Air' 
 
 quippini 'how should I not'= airov Kal awiix^ 7 !" ivrevdev iirt 
 
 scilicet ('of course') which is pais). 
 
 ascribed as a gloss in the 1114. quin taces ' won't you 
 
 ms. B. be silent?' — rather a command 
 
 1111. longissume ' as far than an interrogation. 
 
132 MENAECHMEI. [V. 9. 56 — 67. 
 
 1115 qu6t eras annos gn£tus quom dim t6 pater a patria 
 
 aVehit? 
 Me. I. septuennis : nam turn dentes mihi cadebant 
 
 primulum, 
 ne'que patrem postillac umquam vidi. Mes. quid ? 
 
 vos trim patri 
 filii quot er£tis ? Me. I. ut nunc mkume memini, 
 
 duo. 
 Mes. liter eratis, tun an ille, maior ? Me. I. aeque 
 
 amb6 pares. 60 
 
 1120 Mes. qui id potest? Me. I. gemini dmbo eramus. 
 
 Me. II; di me servatum volunt. 
 Mes. si interpellas, e"go tacebo. Me. II. potius taceo. 
 
 Mes. die mihi: 
 uno nomine ambo eratis ? Me. I. minume : nam mihi 
 
 hdc erat, 
 qudd nunc est, Menae'chmo, ilium autem turn voca- 
 
 bant Sosiclem. 
 Me. II. signa adgnovi : contineri quin complectar 
 
 n6n queo. 6s 
 
 1125 mi germane ge"mine frater, silveto: ego sum S6sicles. 
 
 Me. I. qud modo igitur p6st Menaechmo ndmen est 
 
 factum tibi ? 
 
 aberrare Biicheler (comp. prol. 31). 1115. turn quom pater a patria 
 te avehit Fleekeisen and E. ; instead of transposing te, I have 
 added olim. In his N. PI. Exe. I p. 64, B. preferred qudm te pater 
 a patriai dvehit, and so Brix. 1117. postillac umquam B., the 
 mss. in inverse order. 1118. ut erratis Ba. 1123. autem om. 
 mss., added by Miiller Naehtr. p. 130, at ilium Fleekeisen, illun- 
 ce B. 1125. salve mss., B. emended by Fleekeisen. 1127. 8. 
 
 1116. Compare v. 24 in the 1118. ut nunc maxime memi- 
 prologue. — Lambinus quotes ni 'to the best of my present 
 Pliny, Macrobius, and Censori- recollection'. 
 
 nus in support of the fact that 1119. For uter eratis comp. 
 
 children change their teeth v. 779 above. — pares, sc. natu, 
 
 when about seven years of age ! both of the same age. 
 
 1117. quid? continues the 1130. qui id potest 'how is 
 investigation. that possible?' 
 
V. 9. 68—78.] MENAECHMEI. 133 
 
 Me. II. pdstquam ad nos renuntiatumst te * * 
 
 * * * * * 6t patrem esse m6rtuom, 
 
 avos noster mutavit : quod tibi n6men est, fecit mihi. 
 
 1130 Me. I. cre"do ita esse factum ut dicis. seM mi hoc 
 
 respond^. Me. II. roga. 70 
 
 Me. I. quid erat nomen n6strae matri ? Me. II. 
 
 Teuximarchae. Me. I. c6nvenit. 
 6 salve, insperate, multis annis post quem cdnspicor, 
 frater. Me. II. et tu, que"m ego multis miseriis, 
 
 lab6ribus 
 usque adhuc quaesivi quemque ego e"sse inventum 
 
 gaudeo. 
 1135 Mes. h6c erat, quod hae'c te meretrix huius vocabat 
 
 "ndmine : 75 
 
 hunc censebat t6 esse, credo, qu6m vocat te ad 
 
 pr&ndium. 
 Me. I. namque edepol mi hie hddie iussi prandium 
 
 adpararier 
 clam meam uxorem: quoi quam pallam stirrupui 
 
 dudum domo, 
 
 ' duorum ut puto versuum reliquiae in uuum huno coaluerunt in 
 libris' B. 1133. miseris mss., emended byBothe; et miseris'R. 
 1137. hie mihi mss., corrected by Bothe. 1138. quam om.'mss., 
 
 1127. The original contents 1135. ' This then was the 
 
 of the gap may be guessed reason, why' etc. quod=prop- 
 
 from the prologue. We may ter quod, as in numerous other 
 
 supply te esse surruptum et post- instances. — huius should beprQ- 
 
 quam simul comperimus. nounced ax a monosyllable 
 
 1131. Comp. v. 498 above. (huis). 
 
 1132. multis annis post quem 1136. vocat is the historical 
 conspicor ' whom I now behold present after quom. 
 
 for the first time for many 1137. Menaechmus of Epi- 
 
 years'. Acidalius compares' a damnus confirms Messenio's 
 
 fragment of Pacuvius from his conjecture. Hence he begins 
 
 ' Tenner, v. 319 Bibbeck : quam his speech with namque. — In- 
 
 te post multis tueor tempestati- stead of iussi, we should rather 
 
 bus. expect iusseram; but we hare 
 
 1133. The copula et is fre- already seen that Plautus is not 
 quently omitted between two very careful in observing these 
 nouns in archaic Latin ; see differences of tense. 
 
 our note on Trin. 287. 
 
134 MENAECHMEI. [V. 9. 79—87. 
 
 earn -dedi huic. Me. II. hanc dicis, frater, pdllam, 
 
 quam ego habeo in manu ? 
 1140 Me. I. quo modo haec ad te" pervenitl Me. II. 
 
 me'retrix, quae hue ad prandium so 
 
 me dbduxit, me sibi dedisse aie"bat. prandi perbene, 
 pdtavi atque accubui scortum : pallam et aurum hoc 
 
 mihi dedit. 
 
 Me. I. gaudeo edepbl, si quid propter me" tibi evenjt 
 boni : j 
 
 1145 nam ilia- quom te ad s6 vocabat, me" esse &edo 
 
 cre"didit. 
 f\ Mes. numquid me morare, quia ego liber, ut iusti, 
 ;, siem ? ■ - c 85 
 
 Me. I. 6ptumum atque aequissumum orat, frater : 
 
 fac caus£ mea. 
 Me. II. liber esto. Me. I. quom tu's liber, gaudeo, 
 Messe"nio. 
 
 added by B. 1139. hancine tu B. against the mss. habeo in manu 
 Brix, habeo mss., fero B. 1140. quae om. mss., added by B. 
 1142. mihi dedit om. mss., added by Carnerarius. 1143. 'apparet 
 integrum versum interoidisse huius modi : 
 
 quae uieo sumptu inberem sibi reconcinnarier ' B. 
 1145. credo om. mss., added by Miiller Naohtr. p. 116. memet 
 
 1142. Comp. above, v. 476. been made in this scene of 
 
 — For the gap after this line, Messenio's name, and that it is 
 
 see crit. note. therefore rather strange that 
 
 1145. credo is said by way Menaechmus of Epidamnus 
 of parenthesis, according to the should all of a sudden address 
 general habit of Latin writers. him by his name. This is 
 
 1146. Messenio addresses either due to a certain negli- 
 these words to Menaechmus of gence on the part of the poet, 
 Epidamnus, who had once be- or we should assume that the 
 fore presented him with his scribes have skipped some line 
 freedom. ' I hope you have no in which the name was pre- 
 objection to my manumission'. viously mentioned. — The words 
 — iusti^iussisti; comp. v. 1030. quom tu liber es, gaudeo form 
 
 1148. It has been pointed the usual congratulation when a 
 
 out that as yet no mention had slave obtains his freedom. 
 
V. 9. 88—94.] MENAECHMEI. 135 
 
 Mes. se"d meliorest 6pus auspicio, ut liber perpetud 
 
 siem. 
 1150* * * * * 
 
 Mb. II. quoniam haec evene'runt nobis, frater, ex 
 
 sente'ntia, 
 in patriam redeamus ambo. Me. I. filter, faciam 
 
 ut tu voles. go 
 
 -auctionem hie faciam et vendam quidquid est. nunc 
 
 interim 
 eamus intro, frater. Me. II. fiat. Mes. scitin quid 
 
 ego v6s rogo ? 
 1155 Me. I. quid ? Mes. praeconium mi ut detis. Me. I. 
 
 dabitur. Mes. ergo nunciam 
 vis conclamari auctioneer f6re ? Me. I. equidem die 
 
 se'ptimi. 
 
 esse credidit E. 1150. 'aliquid responsvun esse Messenioni 
 prorsus eredibile est ' E. 1151. frater nostra ex mss., frater nobis 
 ex Camerarius, nobis, frater, ex E. 1152. h-om. B (not the 
 other mss.). 1155. phaeconium mihi ni detis A, CDF, mihi 
 praeconium videtis Ba (ut detis Bb), praeconium ut mihi detis Z, 
 Brix. 1156. equidem Bergk, quidem mss., quo die LambinuB, E. 
 
 1149. 'Allegoria est per auction. — nunciam (always tri- 
 
 quam signifioat praeter liber- syllabic in Plautus ; see our note 
 
 tatem opus esse praeterea cibo. on Trin. 3) 'directly, at once', 
 
 proinde ac si dicat : libertas est 1156. equidem sc. volo : ' I 
 
 ilia quidem res magnopere ex- for my part wish it to take place 
 
 petenda et magni aestimanda, on the seventh day from now*, 
 
 sed nisi tu dominus mihi servo — For the phrase die septimi 
 
 cum libertate aliquid prae manu (in which septimi is an ablative, 
 
 dederis, hoc auspicium parum like qui = quo) we may compare 
 
 laetum est, denuo redauspican- Gellius x 24 who says ' die 
 
 dura est'. Lamb., who quotes quarto' et 'die quinto' quod 
 
 analogous instances from Plau- Graeci els rerdpTiiv ical els jr^uir- 
 
 tus' Epidicus v 2, 62, and rqv dicunt, ab eruditis nunc quo- 
 
 Terence's Adelphoe v 9, 22 sqq. que did audio, et qui aliter 
 
 1154. eamus should be pro- elicit, pro nidi atque indocto 
 nounced in two syllables by despicitur. Sed Marci Tullii 
 way of synizesis. aetas ac supra earn non, opinor, 
 
 1155. Messenio suggests that ita dixerunt: ' diequicte' enim 
 there is at once ' a job' for et ' diequinti' pro adverbio co- 
 him ; they are to make him pulate dictum est, secunda in eo 
 their 'praeco' for the projected syllabacorrepta. He then states 
 
136 
 
 MENAECHMEI. [V. 9. 95 — 99. 
 
 Mes. auctio fi^t Menaechmi mane sane septimi. 95 
 venibunt servi, supellex, fundi et aedes. 6mnia 
 venibunt, quiqui licebunt, prae'senti pecunia. 
 1160 venibit ux6r quoque etiam, si quis emptor ve"nerit. 
 [vix credo aucti6ne tota capiet quinquage"nsies.] 
 
 1158. fundi aedes mss., aedes, fundi It. after Linge, aedes fundis 
 BUcheler Lat. Decl. p. 18, B. Opusc. 11 650 n. ; fundi e t aedes 
 Miiller Pros. p. 682 and Bergk Beitr. 1 p. 102, and so Brix. 1160. 
 Uxor quoque etiam vaenibit B. after Guyet. 1161. rejected by 
 
 that the emperor Augustus em- 
 ployed these expressions in his 
 correspondence, and quotes 
 other instances from Pom- 
 ponius, the historian Caelius, 
 and Cato the Elder. He adds 
 alia idem multa hoc genus varie 
 dixerunt : ' die pristini ' quoque 
 eodem modo dicebatur...quod 
 vulgo pridie dicitur, converso 
 compositions ordine quasi ' pris- 
 tino die', atque item simili 
 figura 'die crastini' dicebatur, 
 id erat 'crastino die.' sacer- 
 dotes quoque popiili Bomani 
 cum condicunt in diem tertium 
 ' diem perendini' dicunt. sed 
 utplerique ' die pristini', ita M. 
 Cato in oratione contra Furium 
 'die proximi' dixit. We may 
 add that the same formation of 
 the ablative has left its traces 
 in the adverbs quotidie—quoto 
 die and postridie=postero die. 
 In Plautus we find also die sep- 
 timi Pers. 11 3, 8, die crastini 
 Most, rv 1, 25. In their first 
 origin these formations are, no 
 doubt, locatives, and may there- 
 fore be classed with ruri domi 
 humi etc., but for all practical 
 purposes they may be treated 
 as ablatives of time, like mane 
 in the following line. See 
 Kiihner, Ausf. Gr. 1 p. 178 sq., 
 and our note on Aul. 741. 
 
 1157. Messenio winds up the 
 comedy by inviting the specta- 
 tors to the auction of Menaech- 
 mus' goods and chattels. 
 
 1159. quiqui licebunt ' for 
 whatever price they shall sell, 
 but only for ready money'. 
 
 1160. For the prosody of 
 venibit see Introd. to Aul. p. 
 16. — For quoque etiam see our 
 note on Trin. 1048. Brix main- 
 tains that this is not exactly a 
 tautology or pleonasm, as quo- 
 que involves comparison (' as 
 well as the other goods') and 
 etiam adds emphasis. But we 
 may well ask — would not ' also 
 even ' be felt as a pleonasm in 
 English ? — si quis emptor vene- 
 rit ' in case any purchaser 
 should be forthcoming' — which 
 is extremely improbable. 
 
 1161. In the present line, 
 quinquagensiens is an isolated 
 form instead of quinquagiens 
 (i.e. here quinquagiens centena 
 milia sestertium). From the 
 adverb vix it might be inferred 
 that the sum realized in the 
 auction was a very small one, 
 but for the time of Plautus this 
 would hardly be true. It is, 
 moreover, difficult to see why 
 Messenio should mention the 
 sum total to be realized at the 
 sale. For these reasons, we have 
 
V. 9. 100.] MENAECHMEI. 137 
 
 nunc, spectators valete et n6bis clare applalldite. 100 
 Schwabe, Jahrb. 1872 p. 418 sqq. ' 1162. clare dareplavdite B. 
 
 followed Schwabe in rejecting 
 this line as spurious. 
 
 1162. The publics are re- 
 quested by Messenio to applaud 
 the play. The same request 
 occurs in very nearly the same 
 
 words at the end of all Plautine 
 plays, but is sometimes pro- 
 nounced by the 'cantor' and 
 sometimes by the actor who 
 speaks last. See my note on 
 Ter. Andr. 980. 
 
METRA HVIVS FABTLAE HAEC SVNT. 
 
 v. 1 ad 109 iambici senarii 
 
 — 110 versus e tribus choriambis et cretico oompositue 
 
 — Ill trochaicus septenarius 
 
 — 112 et 113 cretici tetrametri acatalecti 
 
 — 114 A et B daotylioi trimetri hypercatalecti 
 
 — 115 ad 118 cretici tetrametri acatalecti! 
 
 — 119 trochaicus octonarius 
 
 — 120 ad 122 iambici dimetri 
 
 — 123 ad 127 trochaici septenarii 
 
 — 128 ad 134 iambici octonarii 
 
 — 135 ad 225 trochaici septenarii 
 
 — 226 ad 350 iambici senarii' 
 
 — 351 anapaesticus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 352 iambicus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 353 et 354 anapaestici dimetri acatalecti 
 
 — 355 paroemiacus 
 
 — 356 iambicus senarius 
 
 ; — 357 anapaesticus tetrameter catalecticus 
 
 — 358 anapaesticus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 359 iambicus octonarius 
 
 — 360 paroemiacus 
 
 — 361. 2. 3 anapaestici dimetri acatalecti 
 
 — 364 anapaesticus monometer acatalectus 
 
 — 365 anapaesticus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 366 paroemiacus 
 
 — 367 anapaesticus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 368 paroemiacus 
 
 — 369 ad 465 trochaici septenarii 
 
 — 466 ad 570 iambici senarii 
 
 — 571 ad 677 bacchiaci tetrametri 
 
 — 578 creticus tetrameter acatalectus 
 
 — 579 et 580 bacchiaci trimetri catalectici 
 
 — 581 trochaicus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 582 bacchiacus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 683 iambicus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 — 584 bacchiacus tetrameter 
 
 — 585 iambicus octonarius 
 
 — 586 versus interpolatus 
 
MENAECHMEI. 139 
 
 ■ 587 baoohiaous tetrameter acataleotus 
 
 ■ 588 ad 591 troohaioi ootonarii 
 • 592. 3 trochaici septenarii 
 
 - 594 trochaious octonarius 
 
 - 595 trochaious septenarius 
 
 ■ 596 ad 601 iambici ootonarii 
 
 ■ 602. 3 anapaestioi septenarii 
 
 - 604 ad 700 troohaioi septenarii 
 
 - 701 ad 752 iambici senarii 
 
 - 753 ad 761 baoohiaci tetrametri acatalecti 
 
 - 762. 3 baoohiaous dimeter cum iambica tripodia cataleotica 
 
 - 764 oreticus dimeter cum trochaica dipodia catalectica 
 
 - 765 trochaious dimeter 
 
 - 766 ad 773 bacohiaoi tetrametri acatalecti 
 
 - 774 iarubicus dimeter cataleoticus 
 
 - 775 ad 871 troohaioi septenarii 
 
 - 872 ad 898 iambici senarii 
 
 - 899 ad 965 trochaioi septenarii 
 
 - 966. 7. 8 bacchiaci tetrametri acatalecti 
 
 - 969 baoohiaous tetrameter cataleoticus 
 
 - 970 baoohiaous tetrameter acatalectus 
 
 - 971 baoohiaous tetrameter cataleoticus 
 
 - 972 A bacchiacus dimeter cataleoticus 
 
 - 972 b iambicus dimeter 
 
 - 973 a bacchiacus dimeter cataleoticus 
 
 - 973 b iambicus dimeter 
 
 - 974 trochaious dimeter cataleoticus 
 
 - 975 A trochaica tripodia 
 
 - 975 b bacchiacus dimeter acatalectus 
 
 - 976 iambicus septenarius 
 
 - 977 iambicus senarius, hoc loco interpolate 
 
 - 978 iambicus septenarius 
 
 - 979 iambicus octonarius 
 
 - 980 ad 985 iambici Beptenarii 
 
 - 986. 7 iambici octonarii 
 
 - 988 ad 994 trochaici septenarii 
 
 - 995 ad 1003 iambici octonarii 
 - 1004 iambicus dimeter 
 
 - 1005. 6 iambici octonarii 
 
 - 1007 ad 1116 trochaici septenarii. 
 
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