Note 251 — SCENE III
Reading edition
Alluding to the following passage in the Amphitruo of Plautus, where the night is lengthened, that Jupiter may continue the longer with Alcmena. Mercury says—
"Et meus pater nunc intus hie cum ilia cubat; Et haec ob eam rem nox est facta longior, Dum ille, quaquam volt, voluptatem capit."
—"Prolog. Amphitr." 112.—Pegge.