The Comedies of Terence

by Terence

Geta. “My wife

Must buy a maid; some little furniture

Is also requisite; and some expense

To keep our wedding: all these articles,”

Continues he, “we’ll reckon at ten minæ.”

Dem. No; let him bring ten thousand writs against me.

Dem. No; let him bring a thousand writs against me.

I’ll give him nothing. What! afford the villain

An opportunity to laugh at me?

Colman’s note on this passage says in part: “I have ... rendered the sexcentas of Terence by Ten Thousand, as being most agreeable to the English idiom, as well as the Greek.”