Terence

Terence (c.185-159 B.C.), born Publius Terentius Afer, was a Roman comic poet and a playwright, born at Carthage, brought thence as a slave in a Roman family. He was educated by his master, a Roman senator, and set free. He composed plays, adaptations of others in Greek by Menander and Apollodorus who depicted Greek manners for Roman imitation in a pure and perfect Latin style, and with great dramatic skill. He was witty and of graceful manners. He later became a favourite in the fashionable society of the period.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

- Heauton Timoroumenos ( The Self-Tormentor)

• I am a man ; nothing human is alien to me.

- Heauton Timoroumenos ( The Self-Tormentor)

• While there is life, there's hope.

- Heauton Timoroumenos ( The Self-Tormentor)

• Fortune favours the brave.

- Phormio

• Moderation in all things.

- Andria

• My closest relation is myself.

- Andria

Marcus Tullius Cicero