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1 CHREMES
Her portion, Pamphilus, is ten talents. PAMPHILUS
I alm satisfied. CHREMES
I'll hasten to my daughter. Come now, beckoning along with me, Crito; for I suppose that she will not know me. They go into GLYCERIUM'S house. SIMO
To PAMPHILUS. Why don't you order her to be sent for hither, to our house? PAMPHILUS
Well thought of; I'll at once give charge of that to Davus. SIMO
He can't do it. PAMPHILUS
How so? SIMO
Because he has another matter that more nearly concerns himself, and of more importance. PAMPHILUS
What, pray? SIMO
He is bound. PAMPHILUS
Father, he is not rightly bound.
1 Of course----Then be it so: “"Nempe id. Scilicet."” Colman has the following remark on this line: "Donatus, and some others after him, understand these words of Simo and Pamphilus as requiring a fortune of Chremes with his daughter; and one of them' says that Simo, in order to explain his meaning, in the representation, should produce a bag of money. This surely is precious refinement, worthy the genius of a true Commentator. Madame Dacier, who entertains a just veneration for Donatus, doubts the authenticity of the observation ascribed to him. The sense I have followed is, I think, the most obvious and natural' interpretation of the words of Pamphilus and Simo, which refers to the preceding, not the subsequent, speech of Chremes."
The Comedies of Terence. Henry Thomas Riley. Ney York. Harper and Brothers. 1874.
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