[63.] From the shades below)—Ver. 876. Parmeno says this, while pondering upon the meaning of all that is going on, and thereby expresses his impatience to become acquainted with it. He therefore repeats what Pamphilus has before said in the twelfth line of the present Act, about his having been restored from death to life by his agency.
[64.] Your applause)—Ver. 881. We may here remark, that the Hecyra is the only one of the Plays of Terence with a single plot.
[ PHORMIO;]
OR, THE SCHEMING PARASITE
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
Demipho,[1] Chremes,[2] | Aged Athenians, brothers. |
Antipho,[3] son ofDemipho. Phædria,[4] son ofChremes. Phormio,[5] a Parasite. Geta,[6] servant ofDemipho. Davus,[7] a servant. | |
Hegio,[8] Cratinus,[9] Crito,[10] | Advocates. |
Dorio,[11] aProcurer. Nausistrata,[12] the wife ofChremes. Sophrona,[13] the nurse ofPhanium. | |
Scene.—Athens; before the houses of Demipho, Chremes, and Dorio.