Publius Terentius Afer

“ Shut up your ears to slanders we entreat you,
And open them to hopes in which we greet you
Listen to us who weave fair novelties,
Not like the breathless slave who ranting cries,
"Give place, make room," [1] and hurling folk about. ”

“ Who work to please you, on a future day
May find a beaten track and trodden way.
↑ A cut at the Amphitryon of Plautus, where Mercury, as Sosia, comes dashing on—"Give place, make room," &c."—Act III. sc. 4. The slave would have been flogged for so doing. ↑ The stataria or motoria fabula, stationary or mobile acting: the first to the old men, the second to the slaves. ”