Grant us your applause.Grant us your applause: Plaudite. Colman has the following remark at the conclusion of this Play: All the old Tragedies and Comedies acted at Rome concluded in this manner. Donec cantor vos Plaudite dicat, says Horace. Who the cantor was, is a matter of dispute. Madame Dacier thinks it was the whole chorus; others suppose it to have been a single actor; some the prompter, and some the composer. Before the word Plaudite in all the old copies is an Ω, which has also given rise to several learned conjectures. It is most probable, according to the notion of Madame Dacier, that this Ω, being the last letter of the Greek alphabet, was nothing more than the mark of the transcriber to signify the end, like the Latin word Finis in modern books; or it might, as Patrick supposes, stand for Ωδος, cantor, denoting that the following word Plaudite was spoken by him. After Plaudite in all the old copies of Terence stand these two words, Calliopins recensui; which signify, I, Calliopius, have revised and corrected this piece. And this proceeds from the custom of the old critics, who carefully revised all Manuscripts, and when they had read and corrected any work, certified the same by placing their names at the end of it.