aerumnam exsequi); Priscian, VIII. p. 799 mentions sequo as having been used in early Latin for sequor.

1010. faxo uenies: see on 801.

1011. surpuit uendidit: for the asyndeton cf. on 791.

1013. Paruolum: this older form of the diminutive termination -ulus is only retained after e, i or u (R. 856). Notice the repetition.

1014. Illic...hunc: referring to the same person, Stalagmus; see on 548. Sch. supposes two half-lines to have fallen out after nam, such as

nam huius filium gnouit probe,

Quom ei occurrit: ita prensum hunc

1015. Quin: the мss. reading is open to three objections, (i) the repetition of the question in 1016, (ii) the difficulty of explaining the acc. filium, (iii) the improbability that Tynd. after hearing this wonderful news would answer only by referring to Philop., who has not yet been mentioned; (on the other hand it is quite natural that Tynd. in 1016, unable to grasp the whole situation, should ask a question on the point last mentioned, the one point he understands). The MSS. reading makes him seem to have mastered the whole situation and perceived the one point still unexplained; Phil.'s repetition in 1018 shews that this is not the case. Schoell's theory of a lacuna in which huius filium occurred meets the two latter objections.

eccum: see on 997; here used of persons not present, as in 169, Am. 120 nam meus pater nunc intust eccum Iuppiter, Aul. 781 eccillam domi, Bac. 568 (quoted on 997).

fratrem germanum: emphatic tautology, as in Men. 1102 fratres germanos duos geminos, una matre natos et patre uno uno die.

1016. Quid tu ais? see 289.

1018. fur tuos 'the man who stole you,' see R. 1315. Phil. repeats himself, as Tynd. has not yet thoroughly grasped the situation. Brix considers 1011-1017 an interpolation.

The

1020. erga te cf. Am. 1101 utut erga me meritast. words erga te, which Sch. inserts, might easily have been inserted before ergo; this would also account for the omission of TY. in BE. Other editors insert merito before meritam.

Ergo: see on 383: notice repetition and alliteration.

1021. dic...tun es? a quasi-dependent question, see on 207 and R. 1761.

1022 is considered by Fl. Uss. Brix and others to be a suggested variation of the next line. Quom recogito occurs in 51, Curc. 375, Sti. 301.

1023. Nunc demum : see on 105.

in memoriam regredior: the nearest parallels seem to be Pers. 640 se in memoriam inducat (c. gen.), Ter. Ph. 383 redige (me) in memoriam, Cic. Cat. M. 7 in memoriam redeo mortuorum.

1024. Quasi per nebulam: an inaccurate metaphor, as applied to hearing; cf. Ps. 463 quae quasi per nebulam scimus atque audiuimus.

1025. Conpedibus: for the abl. see R. 1212 and cf. Cic. Fam. III. 12 leua me hoc onere, Fin. Iv. 24 qui uirtute student, leuantur uitiis, leuantur erroribus.

1026. id praeuortier: see on 460.

1027. ut arcessatur faber ut: cf. on 367.

1028. peculi: see on 20, and for the form see R. 351: Stalagmus alludes to dem, 'as I have no savings I ought to have something given to me.'

feceris: sc. si quid mihi des (Poen. 928) or dederis; the perf. subj. represents the fut. perf. indic.

CATERVA=grex 'the company of actors,' who speak the epilogue in the Cist. In the As. also the epilogue is headed GREX, in the Epid. POETA. In the Bac. there is no heading.

1029. ad pudicos mores: for ad 'in accordance with' see on 783, for pudicos mores cf. 55-58.

1031. pueri suppositio: as in the Truc.; argenti circumductio is a common incident.

1032. Neque ubi: i.e. neque argumentum hic est, ubi 'nor is there here a story, wherein'; the regular construction would be neque hic...liberat, cf. 57.

1034. Vbi 'whereby': for this colloquial use of ubi here and in 1032 see on 837.

si uobis placet: placet is impersonal, 's'il vous plaît'; if its subject were comoedia, et si placuimus would be mere repetition.

1035. odio: predicative dative, see on 259; here odio esse= 'to be a bore,' as in Ps. 1264 nec esse odio nec sermonibus morologis utier.

signum hoc: perhaps deLKTIK@s, with the motion of applauding, but more probably hoc refers to what follows, plausum date.

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