I wish attention
first to be paid to that matter. (_Exeunt._
[Footnote 1: _As a wheel_)--Ver. 374. This may either mean the
wheel of a vehicle or a potter's wheel. The wheels used by the ancients
revolved on the axle, as in the carriages of modern times, and were
prevented, by pins inserted, from falling off. They consisted of naves,
spokes, which varied much in number, the felly, or wooden circumference,
made of elastic wood, such as the poplar and wild fig, and composed of
several segments united, and the tire, which was of metal. Some of their
carts and waggons had wheels made of a solid circle of wood, in shape
like a millstone, with the axle running through the middle. Similar
wheels are used in the south of Europe at the present day.]
[Footnote 2: _Unfaithful to Philocrates_)--Ver. 432. Philocrates
might very safely take an oath to Hegio, that he would not prove
unfaithful to himself.]
[Footnote 3: _Forsake your pledge_)--Ver. 441. Alluding to himself
being left behind, and a surety for his speedy return.]
[Footnote 4: _And find out_)--Ver. 446. "Atque hunc inventum
inveni." Some would render this, "And find this person still as you have
found him," making it allude to Hegio; it seems, however, rather to
apply to the son of Hegio, and to mean, "Do you seek out this person
whom we have found out to be in the possession of the physician,
Menarchus.
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