See
the Curculio of Plautus, l. 621, and the Notes to the Andria.]

[Footnote 41: _Given her a portion_)--Ver. 297. By this remark,
Donatus observes that Terence artfully prepares us for the
imposition of Phormio, who extorts money from the old gentleman on
this very ground.]

[Footnote 42: _While you were living_)--Ver. 302. There was a law
at Athens which enacted that persons who lent money to young men
in the lifetime of their parents should have no power to recover
it. In line 303 of the Pseudolus, Plautus alludes to the
Quinavicenarian or Laetorian Law, at Rome, which forbade credit to
be given to persons under the age of twenty-five years, and
deprived the creditor of all right to recover his money or goods.]

[Footnote 43: _The woman's next friend_)--Ver. 307. The "patronus"
was the person who undertook to conduct a lawsuit for another.]

[Footnote 44: _Salute the household Gods_)--Ver. 311. It was the
custom for those returning from a voyage or journey, to give
thanks to their household Gods for having protected them in their
absence. Thus, in the Amphitryon of Plautus, Jupiter, while
personating Amphitryon, pretends, in l. 983, that he is going to
offer sacrifice for his safe return.]

[Footnote 45: _And so you say_)--Ver. 315. Donatus tells the
following story with reference to this passage: "This Play being
once rehearsed before Terence and some of his most intimate
acquaintances, Ambivius, who acted the part of Phormio, came in
drunk, which threw the author into a violent passion; but Ambivius
had scarcely repeated a few lines, stammering and scratching his
head, before Terence became pacified, declaring that when he was
writing these very lines, he had exactly such a Parasite as
Ambivius then represented, in his thoughts."]

[Footnote 46: _Have hashed it up_)--Ver. 318. He is thought to
allude here, figuratively, to the composition of a dish called
"moretum," (in praise of which Virgil wrote a poem) which was
composed of garlic, onions, cheese, eggs, and other ingredients,
beaten up in a mortar. The allusion to eating is appropriately
used in an address to a Parasite.]

[Footnote 47: _Turn upon myself_)--Ver. 323. Donatus observes that
in this Scene Terence exhibits the lower order of Parasites, who
ingratiated themselves by sharping and roguery, as in the Eunuchus
he describes Parasites of a higher rank, and of a newer s