[65] The conclusion of the Aulularia is lost, but the play seems to have ended with the old man's consigning his treasure into the hands of his son-in-law and daughter.
[66] 'The Gods only are rich: great wealth and high connexions are for the Gods; but we, poor creatures, are but a tiny spark of life, and so soon as that is gone, the beggar and the richest man, when dead, are rated alike by the shores of Acheron.'—Trin. 490-4.
Non vidisse undas me maiores censeo.—Rudens, 167.
Atque ut nunc valide fluctuat mare, nulla nobis spes est.—Ib. 303.
[68] Cf.
Atque hoc scelesti [illi] in animum inducunt suum
Iovem se placare posse donis, hostiis:
Et operam et sumptum perdunt; id eo fit quia
Nihil ei accemptumst a periuris supplici, etc.—22-5.