The Menaechmi; Edited on the basis of Brix's ed

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... (V. I. 22). This is especially the case in phrases containing mirum, as mirum ni, mirum quin, mirum quid, Amph. 954, non mirum si, True. 305, minume mirum, Ter. Heaut. 245, non edepol mirum, Ter. Hec. 160 (though est is sometimes used, e.g. Bacch. 409, 450, Pseud. 1213, Amph. 283, Ter. Hec. 220). Cf. oiiiiv $av/xaa-r6v, T( eavimor6v; and the English "no wonder." A comparison of these expressions with other exclamatory phrases (e.g. hercle odiosas res, Mil. 1056, edepol mortalem graphicum, Pseud. 519, hercle rem gestam bene, Stich. 379, Epid. 212, morbum hercle acutum, Men. 872, edepol res turbulentas, Epid. 72, edepol mortales malos, Poen. 603) makes it probable that mirum is an exclamatory accusative, in which case est could not be added. 339. ancillulas: diminutive of ancillas, as seruolos is of seruos. The regular feminine of seruos is ancilla (cf. Cic. Off. I. 31. 113) except when the position of a maid-servant as slave or free woman in the eye of the law is in question. Then serua is used. 341. quoiatis: archaic for quoias (cuias). Priscian XVII. 23, p. 122 H, gentile cuias, cuius nominativum eitam cuiatis communi genere antiqui proferebant. Cf. Poen. prol. 109, ib. 994, Cure. 407, Bacch. fragm. 23.--quid nomen: in the question, " what is your (his, etc.) name?" Plautus regularly uses the substantive pronoun quid. Cf. 498, 1131, Trin. 889. 342. adplicant, adglutinant: Plautus frequently puts words of similar meaning side by side without a conjunction (asyndeton). Cf. Trin. 243. 343. perditum, ruined. See App. on 270.--amittunt: for dimittunt, very common in early Latin. Cf. 1055, Capt. arg. 7, prol. 36, 332, 460, etc. 344. istoc: the first syllable must be scanned short.--nauis: must be pronounced (by synizesis)...