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 260 ON THE REPRESENTATION OF the crown on his head, it is inferred that he represents a drunken slave, probably in the AaKrvXio^ of Menander, or in the Condalium Fig. 24. of Plautus^ which was borrowed from it; and this inference is strengthened by the appearance of a similar figure in a scene represented on a terra-cotta relief, which is found in two private collections at Rome. Here a bearded figure, in an attitude like that in the above illustration, is seated on an altar, and two other figures, resembling the conventional old man of the New Comedy, appear to have been in angry altercation with him. It is natural then to conclude that we have some such scene as that in the Mostellaria (v. 1. 45) : and (v. 54) Ego inteHm hinc aram occupaho, Sic tamen hinc consilium dedero; nimio ph Turn consilia firmiora sunt de divinis locis. And the ring, if it does not refer to the Condalium, on which the 1 Varro, L. L. vii. § 77. Accius says it was not written by Plautus, A. Gell. N. A. III. 3. The condalium seenns to have been a kind of ring peculiar to slaves, Plaut. Trin. IV. 3. 7. The word is derived from /cwSyXos.