The Andria and Adelphoe [Of Terence] (English, Latin, Paperback)

. 1875 edition.: ...attacks upon the aristocracy in his plays led to his exile to Utica, where he died . C. 202. T. Maccius Plautus, b. about 254 B. C, and d. 184 . C. His twenty comedies are the earliest productions of Latin literature extant. See Introduction, p. 136. Ennius, b. B. C. 239, d. . C. 169, an intimate friend of Scipio Africanas Major, the greatest literary genius of his age, and by his countrymen regarded as the father and prince of Roman poetry; but of his writings, epic and dramatic, only fragments have been preserved. 19. Auetores, models. Cf. Cic. in Verr. II. 5, 26: Unum cedo auctorem tui facti; Unius prefer exemplum; Hor. Sat. I. 4, 122: Habe auctorem quo facias hoc. 21. Istorum. On the contemptuous force of the pronoun, see M. 486; Z. 701. Obscuram. Here, not merely an industry not securing publicity, but also obtaining no approbation from the public Kz. On the first meaning, cf. Cic. De Orat. I. 14, 59: Sed ex obscuriore aliqua scientia sit promendum. 22. Porro, here in its original sense of henceforth. Cf. Havt., 1.159. The general idea is that of distance, here applied to time. Py. 23. No s cant, i. e. hear their misdeeds revealed in public. Wr. 24. Fauete. See Lex. e. v. II. A.; and cf. Hor. . III., 1, 2. Adeste, etc. Parry and others take these expressions in their technical juridical sense: Be candid umpires and investigate the matter, that you may arrive at a correct decision. Wr. finds in them an allusion to the treatment the Hecyra had received, on the first performance of which the audience left the theatre, thus condemning without even taking the trouble of seeing it. Hence, adeste sc. during the performance; cognoscite, sc. before passing judgment upon it. 25. Relicuom. The vowel 0, after V (consonant or vowel), was retaiued till the Augustan age, and later; though after other letters it had usually changed to V, R. 26. De integro, i. e. hereafter. See Lex. . v. I. . 27...."