PLAUTUS ON TERMS OF PEACE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE
" SPECTLTOR."]
SIR,—Let us hope we shall be as successful as Amphitruo in dictating our terms :-
" Si sine vi et sine hello velint rapta et raptores tradere, Si quae asportassint reddere, se exeroitum extemplo domum Reducturum, abituros agro Argivos, pacem atque otium Dare illis; sin &liter sient animati neque dent quae petat, Soso igitur summa vi virisquo eortun oppidum oppugnassere."
—Amph, 203-7.
In the same play there is a noble consolation for mourning women. Alcmene, Amphitruo's loving wife, while his fate is uncertain, says:— " Id solatiost. Absit dam mode laude parts Domum recipiat se; feram et perferam usque abitum eius animo Forti atque offirmato. Id modo si mercedis Datum mihi ut 'netts victor vie Belli ducat
Sails mihi esse damn. Virtue praemiumst optimum. Libertas, salus, vita, res et parentes, patria, et prognati
Tutantrir, servantur." lb., 638-45.
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