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1 should thrust me into prison. To-morrow shall I be dealt out from there
1 Officers of the watch: Literally, the "Tresviri." As usual, though the Scene is laid in Greece, Roman usages are introduced by Plautus. The officers here mentioned were called "nocturni Tresviri." It was their province to take up all suspicious characters found abroad during the night. They were attended, probably, by lictors, or subordinate officers, who are here referred to as 'homines octo validi," "eight sturdy fellows."
The Comedies of Plautus. Henry Thomas Riley. London. G. Bell and Sons. 1912.
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