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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



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