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Comoediae Sex, Cum Interpretatione Donati et Calphurnii, et Commentario Perpetuo.
Birmingham, J.Baskerville, 1772
Period ink inscription J.Orred from Thos. James Winfield 1791 to head of title and with Orred's booplate
Occasional light foxing, original tree calf, rebacked preserving part of gilt spine
Preserved in modern slip-case
Size 4 1/4 by 6 3/4
307 pages
Text in Latin
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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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