'Non omnes possunt olere unguenta exotica.' Mostell. 42.
[224] Cf. Bacch. 1072:
'Set, spectatores, vos nunc ne miremini
Quod non triumpho: peruolgatumst, nil moror.
Verum tamen accipientur mulso milites.'
[225] Mil. Glor. 164, 6. Cf. Hor. 'Seu malis vetita legibus alea.'
[226] Casina, iii. 3. 22.
[227] Livy, xxxiv. 2.
[228] 'Do you see that the enemy is close upon you, and that your back will soon be invested. Quick! seize some help and succour: it must be done speedily, not peacefully. Get before them somehow; lead round your forces by some pass or other. Invest the enemy; bring relief to our own troops; cut off the enemy's supplies; make a road for yourself, by which provisions or supplies may reach yourself or your legions safely: give your whole heart to the business—it is a sudden emergency.'—Mil. Glor. 219-225.
The end of many of the prologues also shows that they were addressed to a people constantly engaged in war.