WILHELM WAGNER, PH. D. LATE PROFESSOR AT THE JOHANNEUM, HAMBURG. THIRD EDITION. CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO. 1892. THE present edition of the Menaechmei forms a companion volume to the Aulularia and the Trinummus, and will in course of time be succeeded by other plays of Plautus annotated in the same manner. The Editor has conscientiously examined the labours of his predecessors, and hopes that both his critical notes and the exegetical commentary will prove that he is sufficiently acquainted with the works of former scholars in this field of Latin literature. It should, however, be confessed that anything like completeness is not within the scope of the present work, and that the principal consideration which guided the Editor in his selection of the materials to be placed before his readers has been the practical bearing of an observation upon the explanation of the text. The critical notes should not be deemed superfluous; they contain many valuable materials and may, in the hands of an able teacher, become the basis of many useful disquisitions calculated to strengthen the reasoning powers of his pupils. Amongst former commentators, the greatest amount of praise is due to Lambinus. Many niceties of style and phraseology have been copiously illustrated by |