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Footnotes
[1] The scheme of this old national metre, which depends on accent and not on quantity, may be seen from the two examples given below. Various forms are found, but one of the commonest types is identical with the rhythm of the nursery rhyme,
‘The queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey.’
[2] ‘I have heard that a Roman poet is languishing in prison with head on hand’—probably a metaphor from a pillar (but the sense is far from certain).
[3] Utica was besieged by Scipio from 204 to 202 B.C.
[4] In the fabula togata or tabernaria the surroundings of the comedy were Roman, in the fabula palliata Greek, as in Plautus’ plays. Togata in a wider sense included tragedy as well as comedy.
[5] This term means the construction of a new play by uniting two old ones.
[6] The references are to the revised edition of Ritschl.