MOSTELLARIA WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL AND AN INTRODUCTION BY E. A. SONNENSCHEIN, M.A., PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS IN THE MASON COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SON. 1884 [All Rights reserved.] PREFACE. IN adding another play of Plautus to the series inaugurated by the late Prof. W. Wagner, Ph.D., of the Johanneum, Hamburg, I have little to say by way of preface beyond explaining the relation of this volume to the volumes that have preceded it (the Aulularia, the Trinummus and the Menaechmi) and to acknowledge my obligations both to writers of books on my subject and to personal friends who have helped me in my work. Wagner's edition of Plautus with English notes shared the fate of so many other Plautine schemes; it was interrupted by death. The present volume is a contribution to the undertaking, and it is my intention to follow it up by other plays. The principles by which I have been guided, and by which I was guided in my edition of the Captivi (1880), are those of the school of criticism to which Wagner belonged, and which now rules the field, practically without a rival. It would have been satisfactory had I been able to rely to some considerable extent upon material of |