P.TERENTII
AFRI COMOEDIAE SEX
Hagae-Comitum (Hague, Netherlands), 1732
Binding with the central Minerva stamp ("Hagae comitis") of the Latin school of The Hague, together with corner acorns within double fillet border on both sides, gilt spine with the acorn ornament repeated in 5 compartments
With engraved frontispiece by E.LO. Creite after I.C. Boetius, engraved title vignette.
LATIN TEXT
[8], 1322, [46]
Size 5 by 8 1/4"
THE COLLECTION OF 6 COMEDY PLAYS BY THE ANCIENT ROMAN PLAYRIGHT P TERENTII, COMMONLY KNOWN AS TERRENCE.
ORIGINAL PRIZED VELLUM BINDING
Very good interior condition, some wear of the binding.

Publius Terentius Afer (c.?195/185 – c.?159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic.
His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC.
Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease.
He was supposedly on his way to explore and find more plots to base his comedies on. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by Shakespeare.
One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos

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