(_They go into the house of_ SIMO.)
[Footnote 1: _Being carried out to burial_)--Ver. 991. It is
supposed that in this reply he plays upon the question of Theuropides,
who uses the word "processit" in his question, which may either mean,
"what has been going on?" or "what procession has there been?"]
[Footnote 2: _I shall invite you_)--996. He alludes to the
universal custom of giving friends a "coena viatica," or welcome
entertainment, on arriving from off a journey.]
[Footnote 3: _I've hardly any voice left_)--Ver. 1019. "Vocis non
habeo satis." Literally, "I have not voice enough."]
ACT V.--SCENE I.
_Enter_ TRANIO.
TRA. (_to himself_). The man that shall prove timid in critical
matters, will not be worth a nutshell. And, really, to say what that
expression, "worth a nutshell," means, I don't know. But after my master
sent me into the country to fetch his son hither, I went that way
(_pointing_) slily through the lane to our garden. At the entrance
to the garden that's in the lane, I opened the door; and by that road I
led out all the troop, both men and women. After, from being in a state
of siege, I had led out my troops to a place of safety, I
adopted the plan of convoking a senate of my comrades, and when I had
convoked it, they forthwith banished me from the senate. When I myself
perceived that the matter must be decided by my own judgment, as soon as
ever I could, I did the same as many others do, whose affairs are in a
critical or a perplexed state; they proceed to render them more
perplexed, so that nothing can be settled.
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