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N.B.-Letters or ord printed in the ex in talios are due o conjecture an notinive by the SS. letters ord in quare brachelsare giveni ΜSS. butio nee led. Didascalia Διδασκαλιαι, historica notes noli firs productionis a play, ere Systematicali collected by the Alexandrine scholars andamxe to the ποθεσις arxaminatuna os Greel plays. Following this practice the Roman grammarians homo 5 B.C. Collecte simila particular about the plays of their ramatisis. Especiali noteworthyris M. Terentius Varro De actionibus scenicis). These didascaliae dependedoriginalty on notices preserve in the actors copies of the plays. From the Didascalis to the auton amorunaenos e learn that twas alien rom a Gree play o Menander's, acie at the Megalensiangames hen Lucius Cornelius Lentulus an Lucius Valerius Flaccus were curule aediles that he manager as Ambivius Turpio, the musicwritte by Flaccus flave of Claudius that it was actexo the firs occasion illi unequa flutes, then o the seconi occasion illi two righthan flutes, it was composed thir o Terence' plays in the consulfhipo Manius Juventius Thalna an Ti. Sempronius Gracchus. The two ind of Didascaliae confuse the consulS nameS, the Calliopia add L. Atilius Praenestinus to Ambivius in the anagement. Probabi the play a produce I 63 B. C. an revive I 6 B.C.JGraeca sc fabula Menandru sc est). The Gree origina is a plano Menander.'
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The litis Me Duses o M. Paleusia ere introduced int Rome l. taeto , heia a statue os Cybele sμεγάλη eo irought to Romera, l'. Scipio Nasica Liv. XXIX. These games too Place April th th, and were iven by the curule aedile a curatores ludorum solornium. Tli Occasion on hichilays ere produced were si the Iudi Romanior laximi in Sept. on soli consecutive days, given by the curule aediles,
et the es Heusia in April sceni aster i9 B.C., a the ludi plebeii in Nov. give by the plebeian aediles, the ludi Apollinares in July
given by the praetor ιrbantis. To thes may be ad ted extraordinaryoccasion such a ludi itinebres and dedications. L. Ambivius Turpio a the anager sis trOupe os actors. Iewould e a reedman and the actor his laves. The socia position os actores a low, and thei remuneration dependet upon the succes os
the piece Originalty the poet produced his own piece, ut by the timeos Tereiace the aediles arranged with the poet and then contracted illithe manager Turpio as a distinguished actor Cic. de Seneci. I Dandis coupled illi the amous Roscius Tac Dial ao .
egit, Sc. fabulam See note On Prol. V. .
Flaccus, lave os Claudiris, set the Planto music He rote theniusic so the verture, to fili up pauses and the accomPaniments and probabi played i himself. cenes in the ordinar iambic metre Mereno accompanie l. The are no via a Diverbium o metierbium dialogue, and marked in Some SS. V. All ther cenes lyricS proper an Semi-lyrica metres, are nown a Cantica, marked C, and accompanted Besides the appropriate accompaniment so thew cenesthe composer haesto fit ut the time e re the la commence and the pauSe belween the cenes. The muSic a Ver Simple, an played
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Didascalia it seems that the music sed on the occasions of the si res and second representation was disserent. For at theirst representatio tibiae inpares ere Sed, at the second wo trebi sutes. The plays composed earlier than the muton intorumenos ere the Andria and the mora. See p. iii. Perloctia A lior Argumen or Table os Contenis' περιο hi iii metrica form as prefixe to ach of the plays Thos prefixed tod erence are the work of GaDι Sulpicius Apollina=sis o Carthage i5o A. D. in the eacher of Aulus Gellius, and the Eniperor Pertinax. ollinaris also rote the summaries of the Book of the Aenei and in ali probabilit the non-acrosti Arguments to Plautus. His περιοχα to Terence' play are of et lines ach, written in iambic senarii an imitatin the prosod an language of the date of the playS. 2. durus pater, a hard-hearte sather Menedemus sorce his son Clinia, ecauseae as in ove illi Antiphila, o go to the war. Thescene of the war is Asia Minor the war ne of those aged by the Diadochi mong whom the empire of Alexander the reat was divided. 3. animique sese Medat, and repentin what he had done, tortured imself in ind. Animi is a locativa genitive, Mund of anxiet of min aster anxius, dubius, pendens, c. See note On V. 727. q. ut TeVersust, .e. when Clinia returned uni nown to his satherhe turn aside into Clitipho'siouse, i. e. into the Ous o Chremes, whos son Clitipho was. Devortitaιr Sed of turnin into a ous orinia hen coming Domin ourney: ence devorticuluna. 5. να Clitipho. 7. et, When Clinia sento summo his much-destre Antiphila, both he frien Bacchis came an Antiphila herSeis, resse as a lave-giri. The alternative ut eius Bacchis enit amica, iacchis came in
8. factumn quo, .e idoctum est quo, this Wasione that Clitipho might Lee his ather Chremes in the ain. Celare, lihe vertis os
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Personae. Tlic ames soli character require litti comment. Tereiace ias a ad alii Osii ving tandi nil ames O his characi ci . names hicli recur in disserent lays, and revent his readcim romati achin clear and desinite deas to the severa charactei . I he ames are ordinar names alien si Om Grce Come ly. Frusand P rro are instances Os flaves amet storia thei birili place. Om
It wil be remembered that there a at this time o Permanent theatre a Rome. ooden theatres illi row os eat were bulli regu larly ach ea aster i 5 .C. theirs Stone theatre aes the Theatrum Magni, completed by omlae 55 B. C. The Sceni display at the timeos Tereiace ook place in the neight ourhood os the temple os the god in whos honour the festiva was held A temporata ooden stage asPut up the audience Stood tales the chos to have thei Own eat brought for them. The se os mastis came in soon aster Tereiace' deat h. In hi liktime igs ere sed orahe w the audience thel indis character intended. Thus Chremes and Menedemus as id men ould wear hi te igs andu se ali ing-Stici S. The ouia men, Clitipho and Clinia, ore lachwigs, the lave Syru and Dromo, red igs. The colour os the wiginforme the spectator at iace hat par the were bout O lay. The emale paris ere alien by men. On the Gree and Roman sunt ila late date, se Donatus o Andr. 16 M on the hal sperian Stage, omen id not appear. The cene os the original Gree play saepi, and is mos commoni Athens, here a deme nea Athens. The characterswore the Greeli reSS, pallium. Heiace the plays os Plautus and Tereiace are gallialae a distinguished rom Galae, plays in hicli theto was oria an Italian lis depicted. ne play only was presente l
The Prologue προλογος is technicali de fine by Aristoti a that par of the play hicli precedes the ent rance of the Chorus. In the Ne Comed at Athens an in Roman Comed the Chorus has dis-appeared. Euripides more than nyone eis is responsibi for the se
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of the Prologue in omethin approachin to ur acceptation os theterni. Mucii that he expresse by a Prologue the writers of the old Comedy, as Aristophanes, conVeyed in the ourSe of the play by means os,hat sanown a the παράβασις. In his the Chorus came sorward, sace the spectators, an delivere in the poet' nam anythin hewishe to say on the subject of the play itfel or os current politics. But in the Ne Comed there are no politics. Menander and his brother poets dea with the fodies and solbies of very-da lila. Theyare no politica satirisis, but reat o ordinar iis an manners. Withthem the Prologue a employed meret to explain ha the audien ceneede to no about the play, and to asti the good-wil of the spectators. An this is the se of the Prologue in Roman Comedy. But to these two objecis, i to explain the ource of the play, et toentis the sympath of the liouse, Terenc adde a third. In his Prologues he defends himself hom the attack of a rival whomae spealis ofa vetus poeta, ne Luscius Lanuvinus. In the word the Prologues of Tereiace are polemica a wel a explanatory. The Prologue sorme no par of the pia proper It was no de- livered by one of the character of the piece, uti an actor ima specialappropriateireS ornatu prologo. hi dut was commoni underint enhyin younxactor The PreSent caSe is an exception to that ule Ambivitis tirpis himseli delivertit, sae has a specia requeStrio malle.
This Prologue 1 states the origin of the play I-9, et deat with
V. Master partem maxumam, the greateSt par of Ou, i. e. mos os
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5. auton timorumenon, i. e. ἐαυτιν τιμωρουμενον, Punishinga im- seis. Tereiace se in his line the contracte reflexive Pronou αἰπον,
So am is elided in m am . . Cicero, TuSC. Disput. III. 27 68, translates the ille ipse se uniens' Horace alludes to it Sat. I. a. I, ita ut pater ille, Terenti fabrila quem ... inducit, ton se peius GHi erit.
6. duplex, ,hicli Domin single plo has been made doutile. Thisis dissiculi. Some have supposed the reserence tot to the messathers, I o lovers Leto mistresSe and wo laves os the play. ut is here asoni one os each in Menander' play this line is hardi consistent illi . . Other explain that two playS eremo Munded on a single Sion ,
that is ne Latin play and ne Greel play, jus a the author of the Latin play and the author of the Gree play are distinguished in v. 7 8. Other suppos the line to belon to the Prologue of the Andria in hicli his doublin processii tali place. The line is mos lihely
nunc qui scripserit, io I ould telluo who has ritiei theplay Terence), and whos the Gree pia is Menander's , di I notthin that mos os you know already. The recites of the name, Sce of the play tituli ronuntiatio too place e re the deliver of the
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10. Daucis dabo, d wil explain in a se word wh I have earnithis ole. Dabo Pwil explain. Cf. da, uel me' accipe, listen,' i. e. let me teli ou ' Verg. Cl. I. I sed tamen iste detis qui sit da,
Ti re, nobis. 11. Oratorem non prologum, an enVOy, no a prologue. Oratoris originalty one ho comes to mali a request. The Ord is sed asin his passage Hec Prol. 9 orator ad vos venio ornatu prologo.
12. vostrum iudicium fecit, he has ad the decision Ours,'i.e he has place the decision in your hiati s vos iudices fecit. s. Adelph. Prol. indicio de sese ipse erit, vos iudices. me actorem destu, he has assigne me to lead his cause. Actoris sed in iis legat sense of pleader.'13. 1 1 actor, is ni this leader hali ach leve a much in eloquent delivery ache who rote the speech Pam goindito delive has achieve in happy origination.' My SucceSS, Say Turpio, illiso bedoubila is I an perform m pari as et a the poet has done his. Facundia an cogitare reser to the wo OnStituent paris os oratory, agood delivery an a uitable Choice of matter. The forme is technical lyknown as elocutio fronasutiatio , he lalter a inventio A facundia i rechoning ro the fide of eloquence,' in the matter os eloquence. Cf. Plaut. Aul. 18 ΜΕ. Ain tu te valere EU Pol ei haud perbenea pecunia sc valeo), .e. δ' not ver flourishin in the matter os money. Epid. I 29 A DIO; bo valui, ab animo aeter fui. Hic, ointingio himself, sed of therars person a v. 356 huic ovainim mihi. 15. quam dicturus sum. Scan dictetirin stim. The finalis asno founded. Cicero Orat. 8. I 6 telis us that it was ni durin histisetime that the droppingi finalci fel into disuse This turring of wil helmus to understand wh sie re another consonant in the middie os, ordioes no necessarii malle the precedin syllabi long. .g.
16. nam quod rumores, c., as to the ac that whereas ill- nature persons have prea reportS. Nam is meret a parti te of transition Servindito introduce the Sentence, L Adelph. IL distulerunt m have carrie in disserent directions and so spread. 'ma11Voli, unde cover of the hir Terence reser more particularlyto the old poet, Luscius Lanuvinus, hom e refers to and whose attactis e meet in the Prologues generalty See Andr. Prol. 5, Phorm. Prol. I, Adelph. Prol. I. 6-2
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17. contaminasse, c. I entium A ulla to the insin. The verti contami/tar L lio Oilia conta uiuatio a re technicatly used , Tereiice in
the scias os brin in together severat , reel play to orna a single Latinplay. To Obtain a greate varici Os incident and a more complicat plot Tereiace adapted rom two Grech play at tace. Coniciminare, i. e.
contag tinare, mean meret to mingle together. No neces ar Senseos desili nil attaches to the word, e .g. Lucr. III 883 sensmyue suo con
taminat corp/ιs astans, impregnates, i .e. attributes his una seeling to a dead hody. As an illustrationis his practice os Tereiice, his play the Andria a Munded Pon tro playsis Menander's, vi . 'Aνδρια and II ερινθία or, o ut it technicatly Tereiace contaminated the Ανδρία and IDρινθία to mali the Andria. MultaS...paucas represent the exaggerated an age of the charge. Tereiace ad at thi time rit te only two lays, Andria and Hecyra, and of these ille irs Dial was contaminate i. '18. factum id esse, the poet oes no dera that this has been done. Factum id esse se contaminasse. Tereiace then admit theraret charge. Moreove he declares that he oes no regre it, and willdo it again in the future. The fame charge is me more suli Andr.
Prol. 5.19. neque Se pigere-autumat. i. e. et autumat se non si re et
deinde facturrιm pli up neque into et ron. 20. habet bonorum exemplum quo exemplo, he has the precedent of good authorities, an on the strength of that recedent. . C. Exemplum It exemplo is a constriictio familia in Caesar. It wil he undisis Hec Prol. Io I eodem ut iure riti senem Dei, quo iure
bonorun is explained Andr. Prol. 8, to e Naevius, Plautus, Ennius, the greates of his predeceSSOrS. 22. tum, the econi Charge, viz. that Terence has comessor arx a play-writer Without an previou training Malivolus verus Oeta is
23. repente ad stultum nunc se adplicasse musicum, that Terenc has ali os a sudden i. e. ithout an preparation tume his attention to belles leti res. Studium nusicum heroem an murica, Phorm. Prol. 7. μουσικη in ree is osten sed in the sense of a libera education. No oub the specia reserenc is to drama DpoetrF, ut studiuna musicum ill properi include ali polite leaming, literatur generally. 24. amicum ingenio fretum, haud natura sua, relying on the
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talent of his friends, no his own natura abilities. ' genitim ancinatrιra both mean the Same hing, viz. natura enclowmenis, ut thesorme is the obter ord of the wo Dagonio an natura are ablatives governe by fretum amicam i the hori gen. l. O amicorum, Suummum sor nummoratur . c. The sor in tim is the older, ut is
graduali supersede by the longe sorin in orum, Rob L. G. 365. The alliision is to the intimac o Tereiace illi Scipio an Laelius. His enenates declare the plays ere their rather ilia his. e may probabi suppos that Terence rea his play to his oble friend and profited by thei suggestions It wil be noticed that he is a litile troublerio resut the charge which was hard lycles complimentar to himthan saltering to hi PatronS. 25. arbitrium Ostrum, &c., your decision your judgmentishallae final, i. e. I neither admit nor en the charge I impi leave o todecide. 26. Oratos vos omnis Volo, Sc esse, I wiShoo ali tote entreated. 'Ambivius is orator, his ord oratio, hi hearer orati. Omnis, acc.
27. ne plus iniquom possit quam aequom oratio, notato et theword os the prejudice have more eight than the word of the un-prejudiced. Iniquom an aequom hori gen. l. a V 2 . The Poetnaturali regard his hiend as aequi his adversaries asciuigata. 28. date crescendi copiam, give an opportunit of rising to those)Wh give yo an opportunit os WitneSSin ne playS.'29. novarum spectandi coplam, instea os copiam spectandarum novaraim Sc fabrila= una in is unuSual It is Sometimes explaine bysaying that spectandi an novarum re both genitives dependent oncopiam so that the constructio is si copiana specta=rdi, et copiana novarum But a the gerund is the verba noun, it is simple to a thati has the constructionis a noui here, an opportunit of the eein os
specta=idi. In horna. 76 is rea ut aeque nacti eius si nai Ie=rdiotecretinendi copia, so that I have no opportunit eitheri gettingui ofher o of keel in her. There the constructio is the fame as in thepreSent passage, iZ. copia niliteradi eius, eius bella gen aster natuendi, but instead os eius ius houldi read, hicli alter the case. ut Hec. 37 eius vide=rdi cet idus is the Same, i. e. videradi is en aster cupidus, esitis seminine gen aster vide=adi. p. Plaut. Capt. 8 8 ronainandi isto= una ibi erit ni is quana edundi copia, and oo lucis tuendi copiana,
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shoub thini this is sal l in his de iace. It is no enougho Producestest plays. The must he persecti constructed And this con lition
vili dispos o Luscius' claim to Our a VOur. 31. vi nuper fecit, kα, who recenti represented on the lage ho V the eo ple ave a to a lave running in the street.' laves arri ving in a great hurr and clearin a a sor thenaseives A the runt he tengili os the long Roman stage are a common eatur in earlier conae ly. 'lautus has many Such scenes, and Luscius, e muS SuPIM SC, had recenti Ahewn suci a scene. ut Tereiace condemn the Practiceas in ad aste. He consideriit indecorous that re citi gens hould bellusti edi stanti Sta VCS. 32. decesse, hor sorin decessisse. See note On V. 3 O. cur insano Aeolat sc populus, Rhy should the eopte aliethenaseives the laves os a madman ' The lave is called insanus because of his rantic haste an his ad presumption in expectin hisbetters o mahe way oriatim. 33. de ullus peccatis, c., Terence, hen he hali exhibit therne Plays, ill say more about the aulis of Luscius, unies he ut anen to his calumnies. CL Andr proL 22, 23. 34. 1S1. . . facit. The res indici, o an actio abolit to e commen Ced aster si an nisi is common in comi id iom. For instancesse Solanen schein o Plaut. Rud. 97. 35. adeste aequo animo. CL Andr. Prol. 4.36. Statariam, sui it in m powerrio represent a quiet play Without interruption. The play was sal to e quiet, as opposed tomotomia fabula), a bust ling play, sui os excitin incident like the
Eunuchus. In the fame Ava the Hecyra is stataria, the Phormio 'uotoria. It was speciali to secure a quiet ea in that Ambivius Turpio came sorward in contraventio of the common Practice, Odelive the Prologue himself.
37. ne Semper. . . adsidue genti sunt mihi, thates may notat ways Continuali have to act.' Se; et os a =rdus est et ira the lave si .e thepar of the lave is to e acte by me, i. e. I have to ac the lave. 'The gerundive arendi is plur aster the different Sing. subjeci Sem OS, Se=Iex, i c. The character enumerate are the stoc personSOLCOmedy. clamore Summo, cum labore maxumo, bawling at therio os