n elephant in India with your
fist!"]

[Footnote 68: _Looking out for game?_)--Ver. 426. "Pulmentum,"
more strictly speaking, "A nice bit." Patrick has the following
Note on this passage: "'Lepus tute es, et pulmentum quaeris?'
A proverbial expression in use at that time: the proper meaning of
it, stripped of its figure, is, 'You are little more than a woman
yourself, and do you want a mistress?'" We learn from Donatus and
Vopiscus, that Livius Andronicus had used this proverb in his
Plays before Terence. Commentators who enter into a minute
explanation of it offer many conjectures rather curious than
solid, and of a nature not fit to be mentioned here. Donatus seems
to think that allusion is made to a story prevalent among the
ancient naturalists that the hare was in the habit of changing its
sex.]

[Footnote 69: _If, indeed, she loved me_)--Ver. 446. Colman has
the following Note upon this passage: "I am at a loss to determine
whether it was in order to show the absurdity of the Captain or
from inadvertence in the Poet, that Terence here makes Thraso and
Gnatho speak in contradiction to the idea of Thais's wonderful
veneration for Thraso, with which they opened the Scene."]

[Footnote 70: _In exercises_)--Ver. 477. Reference will be found
made to the "palaestrae," or "places of exercise," in the Notes to
the Translation of Plautus.]

[Footnote 71: _If occasion served_)--Ver. 479. The Aposiopesis in
this line is very aptly introduced, on account of the presence of
the female; but it admirably illustrates the abominable turpitude
of the speaker, and perhaps in a somewhat more decent manner than
that in which Plautus attributes a similar tendency to his
Braggart Captain, l. 1111.]

[Footnote 72: _Out of the very flames_)--Ver. 491. This was a
proverb expressive of the lowest degree of meanness and infamy.
When they burned the bodies of the dead, it was the custom of the
ancients to throw meat and various articles of food upon the
funeral pile, and it was considered the greatest possible affront
to tell a person that he was capable of snatching these things out
of the flames.]

[Footnote 73: _If Chremes should happen to come_)--Ver. 513. This
is the first allusion to the arrangement which ultimately causes
the quarrel between Thais and the Captain.]

[Footnote 74: _Had been offering a sacrifice_)--Ver. 513. It was
the custom to sa