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xii Dowers— ten talents.—Andria, v. 5.

two talents.—Heaut., v. 1.

Dionysia— feast of Bacchus.—Heaut., iv. 3.

Father—power over wife and son.

salutes his household gods.—Phorm., i. 5.

Jewels—courtesans not permitted to wear them in the street.—Eun., iv. 1.

Meretrix—wealth, pride, and independence of.—Heaut., ii. 2.

Thais—the best female character.—Eun.

Mina—about 3l.. 5s.

Talent—sixty minæ under 200l.

Great Talent—the same.

Omens enumerated.—Phorm., iv. 4.

Orphans to be wedded by next of kin.—Adel., iv. 5.

or his descendant.—Phorm., i. 2.

or dowered at fifteen minaæ.—Phorm., ii. 2.

Price of girls—twenty minaæ.—Adel., ii. 1.

Pyre.—Andr., i. 1.

Pluvium— an open space in roof; a fountain, or plot of green beneath.

Rings—Heaut., iii. 7; Eun., iii. 4.

pledges for costs for dinner.—Hecyra, v. 3.

Slave—manumitted.—Andr., i. 1; Adel., v. 3.

tortured.—Adel., v. 4.

self proposed for torture.—Adel., iii. 5.

evidence otherwise inadmissible.—Phorm., i. 5.

Son—escapes authority by foreign enlistment.—Heaut., i. 1.

travelling equipage, belt, sword, and bottle.—See Plautus.

Wife—indignities borne by her.—Heaut., iii. 5; v. 4.

holds separate property.—Phorm., v. 3.