I’m utterly undone! I’m being called back. I’ll be off, as though I didn’t hear.(Runs on.]

(Enter CHALINUS, from the house of ALCESIMUS, dressed in woman’s clothes.)CHALINUS Where are you, you who imitate the morals of the MassiliansOf the Massilians: It is not at all settled by Commentators what is the meaning of this line. Massilia, now Marseilles, was a colony of the Phocaeans. Cicero, in his Speech for L. Flaccus, particularly alludes to the strictness of their morals. It is possible that this good character may have passed into a proverb, and that Chalinus banteringly calls Stalino one who cultivates Massilian or the strictest morals. Schmieder, however, thinks that a pun on the word Massilienses is intended, and that as Stalino has met with a mas, or male, where he had hoped to find a female, Chalinus comes forward and asks him what he thinks of the Mas-silians; just as we in a similar case might say (though perhaps rather tamely) the Man-chester people.? Now, if you wish to be taking liberties with me, is a good opportunity