[319] Plaut. Curc. i. 1, 50 seqq. Further moralisings on the power of a kiss (which almost suggest Daphnis in Longus’ Pastoralia, i. 18) occur in Menand. Incert. 7.

[320] Ter. Hec. i. 2, 60 seqq.; 85 seqq.

[321] e.g. the “Geta” in Menander’s Misumenus, Milphio in the Poenulus of Plautus, &c.

[322] Such a passage as Alexis, Incert. 35, would belong to this date. It is very different to the ribald remarks in the Philometor of Antiphanes.

[323] Cp. supra, [p. 173].

[324] Ibid. p. 171.

[325] The “mater indulgens” is mentioned in Apuleius, Florid. 16, as one of the stock characters in Philemon.

[326] Menand. Incert. 109, 114, 115, are all equally to the point.

[327] Vide Ter. Hec. iv. 2, 1 seqq., a passage of great interest.

[328] Some further remarks on the family relations in New Comedy will be found in [Excursus K].