Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer (1870)/Terms
TERMS AND SIGNIFICATIONS WITH NO EXACT ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS.
Amica.
Meretrix.
Tibicina.
Citharistria.
Psaltria.
Fidicina.
Furcifer—bearing a log on the neck, as do the Chinese.
Crucifer.
Carnifex—hangman.
Pluvium—an open space in roof.
Pyre—funeral pile.
Oaths:—
Faith of gods.
Faith of men.
Faith of gods and men.
Pol and Edepol—Pollux and fane of Pollux.
Castor and Ecastor—Castor and fane of Castor.
Hercle—by Hercules.
Me hercle—me Hercules juvat.
Jupiter—proh Jupiter.
I am beloved of gods.
As the gods love me.
Papæ.
Atat.
Altar and intercessor.—Heaut., v. 2.
refuge for a slave.—Phorm., i. 50.
at doorway with verbenaæ.—Andr., iv. 4.
Babe laid at threshold.—Andr., iv. 5.
Conclave—an apartment with lock and bolt.
Creaking of hinges—or warning of exit from doors which opened externally. The noise was made to give warning to those outside.
Daughter exposed.—Heaut., iii. 5.
discovered by ring.—Heaut., iii. 5.
Dowers— ten talents.—Andria, v. 5.
two talents.—Heaut., v. 1.
Dionysia— feast of Bacchus.—Heaut., iv. 3.
Father—power over wife and son.
salutes his household gods.—Phorm., i. 5.
Jewels—courtesans not permitted to wear them in the street.—Eun., iv. 1.
Meretrix—wealth, pride, and independence of.—Heaut., ii. 2.
Thais—the best female character.—Eun.
Mina—about 3l.. 5s.
Talent—sixty minæ under 200l.
Great Talent—the same.
Omens enumerated.—Phorm., iv. 4.
Orphans to be wedded by next of kin.—Adel., iv. 5.
or his descendant.—Phorm., i. 2.
or dowered at fifteen minaæ.—Phorm., ii. 2.
Price of girls—twenty minaæ.—Adel., ii. 1.
Pyre.—Andr., i. 1.
Pluvium— an open space in roof; a fountain, or plot of green beneath.
Rings—Heaut., iii. 7; Eun., iii. 4.
pledges for costs for dinner.—Hecyra, v. 3.
Slave—manumitted.—Andr., i. 1; Adel., v. 3.
tortured.—Adel., v. 4.
self proposed for torture.—Adel., iii. 5.
evidence otherwise inadmissible.—Phorm., i. 5.
Son—escapes authority by foreign enlistment.—Heaut., i. 1.
travelling equipage, belt, sword, and bottle.—See Plautus.
Wife—indignities borne by her.—Heaut., iii. 5; v. 4.
holds separate property.—Phorm., v. 3.