1731 TERENCE PLAYS in GERMAN antique Comoediae Sex

Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afri Comoediae sex recte tandem captui juventutis accomodatae oder deutliche und nach dem Begriff der Jugend endlich recht eingerichtete Erklarung des Publii Terentii, eines Comici ; Comoediae ; nebst einer Vorrede von Lesung der Heydnischen Auctorum, sodann einem Vorbericht von des Terentii Leben u. Schrifften, desgleichen von den Comoedien und Tragoedien der alten Griechen u. Roemer, teutschen Summarien u. dazu gehorigen vollkommenen Registern nach Art des durch Em. Sincerum edirten Corn. Nepos u. Q. Curtii an das Licht gegeben ; Deutliche und nach dem Begriff der Jugend endlich recht eingerichtete Erklarung des Publii Terentii


Emanuel Sincerum, Berlin, 1731

907 pages

Text in German

Original hard cover.

Very good condition.  Minor wear. Some toning


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Publius Terentius Afer (c.?195/185 – c.?159? BC), better known in English as Terence , was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease.
 He was supposedly on his way to explore and find more plots to base his comedies on. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by Shakespeare.

One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me."
This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos.

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