]
[Footnote 10: _To rescue his son_)--Ver. 32. "Filio dum parceret."
Literally, "so long as he might spare his son."]
[Footnote 11: _Of the Quaestors_)--Ver. 34. In speaking of these
officers, Plautus, as usual, introduces Roman customs into a Play the
scene of which is in Greece. It has been previously remarked that the
Quaestors had the selling of the spoils taken in war]
[Footnote 12: _Any ribald lines_)--Ver. 56. See the address of the
Company of actors to the Spectators at the end of the Play.]
[Footnote 13: _A Comic establishment_)--Ver. 61. "Comico choragio."
Literally, "for the choragium of Comedy." The "choragium" was the dress
and furniture, or "properties" for the stage, supplied by the
"choragus." or keeper of the theatrical wardrobe.]
ACT I.--SCENE I.
_Enter_ ERGASILUS.
ERG. The young men have given me the name of "the mistress," for this
reason, because invocated [1] I am wont to attend at the banquet. I know
that buffoons [2] say that this is absurdly said, but I affirm that it
is rightly _said_. For at the banquet the lover, when he throws the
dice, invokes hia mistress.[3] Is she _then_ invocated, or _is
she_ not? She is, most clearly. But, i' faith, we Parasites with
better reason _are so called_, whom no person ever either invites
or invokes, _and who_, like mice, are always eating the victuals of
another person. When business is laid aside [4], when people repair to
the country, at that same moment is business laid aside for our teeth.
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