^{page 51 note 1} Given in P.-W., s.v. theatrum.

^{page 51 note 2} Amþk. 65; Caþt. 12; Poen.10; Pseud. I.

^{page 51 note 3} This view is still upheld e.g. by Duff, Wight, Literary History of Rome, 1927, p. 157Google Scholar.

^{page 51 note 4} Cf. the prologue to the Casina, which refers expressly to a revival performance.

^{page 51 note 5} Cf. Tac. Ann. xiv. 30: stantem populum spectauisse, ne, si consideret theatro, dies totos ignauia continuaret.

^{page 52 note 1} Nixon's translation.

^{page 52 note 2} Especially in view of the apparent reference to togas, togae cretatae,—which, by the way, seem to have been worn as early as the fifth century (Livy IV. xxv. 13).

^{page 52 note 4} Cic. Pro Sest. 124; Livy I. xxxv 8; Ovid Met. x 668 ; Tac. Ann. xiv 13; Suet. Calig. 35, Dom. 10.

^{page 52 note 5} Kidnapped children are always taken to another town: see Captivi, Menaechmi, Poenulus, Rudens.

^{page 52 note 5} Half of Plautus' plays are staged at Athens.

^{page 53 note 1} The vexed question whether women were admitted to the Athenian theatre would seem to be settled, for the late fourth century at least, by this very passage.

^{page 53 note 2} The pater familias would presumably be sitting (within earshot of the emperor) in one of the rows of stone seats which formed the lower two maeniana of the Flavian Amphitheatre.

^{page 53 note 3} cum consternatum ruinae metu populum retinere … nullo modo posset, transiit e loco suo atque in ea pane consedit quae suspecta maxime erat.

^{page 54 note 1} πρῶτον ξύλον seems to be used only of the front bench at the Pnyx or in the courthouse.

^{page 55 note 1} Pauly-Wissowa does not discuss how the curious belief arose that the Roman authorities, while officially arranging for theatrical performances, should for puritanical reasons have forbidden the spectators to sit. I suggest (1) that the wooden scaffolding or benches of Plautus' day left no visible trace for future ages to contemplate; (2) that some race-conscious Roman antiquarian, rather hurt at finding imposing tiers of stone seats in the theatres of Greek towns, tried to explain the absence of similar remains in Rome in a way which would flatter his countrymen's pride in the mas maiorum.