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The comedies of Terence, translated into familiar blank verse
The comedies of Terence translated into familiar blank verse Author:Terence Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: : fee no fuch things attempted on the " modern ftage, to form any very clear ( or exad: notions." Here therefore I (hall conclude this preface, and take my leave... more » of the Antient Mufick,- referring the curious reader to the fevtfal commentators on Horace and Ariftotle, and to thofe authors who have written ex- prefsly on this fubject; which it is need- lefs to perfue any further in this place, as it is now of no great confequence to the reader of the Comedies of Terence. Kurd's Notes on the Art of Poetry, p. 150. End of IVeandce. LIFE of TERENCE. Vot. I. chapter{Section 4LI F E TERENCE. TRANSLATED FROM SUETONIUS. PU B L I U S Terentius Afer was bom at Carthage, and was a flave of Terentius Lucanus, a Roman Sena- From Suetonius.'] This life of Madam Dacier in giving of our Author is by fome at- a tranflation of this account, tributed to Donatus. It is with a few fupplementary not very fatisfaandoryj but as notes, than to pretend to at- all that has been faid of Te- tempt an alteration, where I rence by other writers is chiefly could make no material ad- taken from it, I thought it dition. better to follow the example e tori tor; who, perceiving him to have an excellent underftanding and a great deal of wit, not only beftowed on him a liberal education, but gave him his freedom in the very early part of his life. Some writers are of opinion that he was taken prifoner in battle, but Feneftella -| proves this to be impoffible, fince Terence was born after J the fecond Punick war, and died before the commencement of the third. But A Roman Senator."] This ginning of that of Tiberius ; Senator gave our Aufhpr the he wrote many things, efpe-r name of Terence, according daily annals; but time has to the prevailing cuftom a- deprived us of them all. ...« less