The Captives : a comedy of Plautus : with English notes, for the use of students.

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Tu Captivos' has generali been Ateemed ne masterpiec os the sathe and prince of Roman com-ody. It is re froni the immoralities Whicli a rude and licentious age has impressedisti mos os his productioni it contain much to illustrate the de eplyinterostin subjec os Ancient lavery iis plo posseSSes unusual variety an interest; and it ab undsin tho mos beauti fui and impressive mora Senti-ments. nisi these accounts I have thought thati Would Ormis valvabi addition to ur Ourse s

is, 1820 and that os Botho Loipsic, 18 34. Thelalter specially, Otwithstanding the extreme temerit os his emendations and the unwarrantable liberty ho has ston talion in cuttin and stretchingius verses filautus to fuit his Wn metrices theo-ries, must be allowed to have rendere important Service in improvin tho texi of this author By a recent Ensisti editor, Who has produce in an olegant forin severes of the comedies of Plautus, he has justly been Styled, praestantiSSimus Sque adhuc, licet certe, audacissimus idem, lauti editorum.'

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Whicli pervades it was myaeason sor dolii so Thobeautis ut regularit whicli, amides an ulmost nisinite variety, prevati in the lyric epic, and tragi metres,render them an Xtremel prope Stud sor ur

them is se inning to b considerod essentiat to a classica education. ut illi the comi metros itis sar therwise Bothe professus to indispwardos fori varieties Os asynariete erSeS be Side a perfecti irregula succession os iambic an trochaicdimeteres, trimeters, and tetrameters in the comedies of Plautus. O bound less, in aut is the licens os Plautus and Tereno in his respect that an eminent scholar Os modern times, and sonae of the ancient themselves have doubted whether thei versus could e reducod within any metrica rulos. I bellove it,ill, in almos ali casus, bo ound that theycan. But I have no disposition to introduco theyoun Student into Such an endles mage os preca

The morat purityis his beautis ut comody was theboast os Plautus himself, who,in his account clatiussor it in tho prologiae the attendance and favourable regard os his countrymen

Prosecto expediet sabulae huic operam dare Non pertractate facta St, neque item ut ceterae Neque spurcidici insunt VerSu inmemorabiles. Hic neque periurus leno St, ne meretri mala, Neque miles gloriOSUS. V-ns 5 58.

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beiter Spectatores ad pudicos mores acta haec fabula est Hujusmodi pauca poetae reperiunt comoediaS, Ubi boni meliores fiant. V-Caterva, S. 947, 951, 2.

Ι appears SomeWhat remari ablo that tho hastityan decency os a comed should bo considere aclaim on in attention and favour of the public, when, at the fame time, the poets have generalty excused thei immoralities as an accommodation to populartaste. It is, at ali evenis, deplorably true and noties s of modern thanis ancient comedy that hereare ery se compositions of this class hicli illbea tot commendod sor heir mora tendency. eare onciliat account, hoWever, dispoSed O priete more hight y such an exceptionis this, here the vasa electa atque pretiosa a Augustine has denominated the phrases of Tereiice hos an elegant comi dictionare re froni the seductive and intoxicatin Wine

there mere Wo O three passages containing allu

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the ancient them Solves, hos SyStem Os education recognised i as a sirs principio that non but thopiares morat influences should sind thoi way to the susceptibi hearis of the oung on this principio Quintilian recommend that he study os comody bodosorrod illati principies and manner are matured. Certainly then a Christian instructor anno bede emed verScrupulous, hen, by the omission ostwo or thre indecent olies, he remove every blem- isti froni a pioc so wollittexto interes and instructine cun a the Captivos,' and render it in aci, a pure an Salutar in iis mora tenderi cy, as it is conses sedly distinguished by the tria Roman salti the antiqua et Dernacula festivitas the natura elegarice and comi sorce hicli are the well-known characteristic oscit author.

Rutger College, New-Brunsvich, Nov. 25, 1842. Cum mores in tuto fuerint,' &e. InSt. Orat. i. 5. Salsiores quam illi Atticorum, Romani veteres atque urbani sales. Cici, Paeto Lit ad Fam. X. II.

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Μ. Accius a pedum planitie Sive πλατουτ τι, initio lotus, postea Plautus est dictus, patria Sarsitius ex Umbria, lepidissimus poeta comicus A temporibus olli unici Secundi floruit, ingenio magis dives quam opibus : nam ad mola manuaria se locare coactus est pistori et ibi quotie ab Opere Vacavit, scribere fabulas Olitus est et vendere. Gellius, o Varrone refert binas illum fabulas, in pistrino CompOSUiSSe Romae mortia VS St, cum Terentius Vix noventii esset, A. U. C. LXX ante Christum natum CLXXXIV. P. Claudio et L. Orci Coss.

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ARGUMENTUM

PRISCIANI. aptus in pugna egionis filius.

Aium quadrimum fugiens Servos vendidit. mater captetvos commercatur liOS, T antum studen S uti natum reCUperet, Ut in bus emit olim amissum situm. PS, SUO Um domino VeSte VorS Rc nomino, V t amittatur, secit ipsus plectitur. Ericis reduxit captum et fugitivum Simul, Pndicio cujus alium agnoscit filium.

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE.