Note 43 — Chapter III · THE BEGINNING OF ROMAN LITERATURE—LIVIUS ANDRONICUS—CN. NAEVIUS, B.C. 240-202.
Reading edition
'What I in the theatre here have made good by the applause given to me, to think that any of these great people should now dare to interfere with! How much better thing is the slavery here'(i.e. represented in this play), 'than the liberty we actually enjoy?'