The Comedies of Terence

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  [Transcriber's Note:

  This translation of Terence was published by Harper & Brothers as
  the second part of an omnibus volume also containing the 1853 Riley
  translation (prose, with notes and commentary). The Riley portion
  has been released as a separate e-text, #22188.

  This e-text includes readings from the 1768 second edition of
  Colman. In general, only differences in wording are included;
  variations in spelling and punctuation were disregarded. It is not
  known whether the Harper's text was based on the first edition of
  Colman or some later edition. Where the Harper text was clearly in
  error, the 1768 reading was substituted in the main text. In all
  cases, the alternative readings are shown at the end of each Scene.

  Stage directions in braces such as {_MICIO and DEMEA apart._} were
  added by the transcriber where the original format was impractical.

  Each play is a free-standing unit.]




                      The
                    COMEDIES
                       of
                    TERENCE.

    Literally Translated into English Prose,
                  with Notes.


          By HENRY THOMAS RILEY, B.A.,
     Late Scholar of Clare Hall, Cambridge.


               To which is added
        the blank verse translation of
                 GEORGE COLMAN.


                   New York:
         Harper & Brothers, Publishers,
                Franklin Square.
                     1896.




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CONTENTS.

COMEDIES OF TERENCE: IN VERSE.

  The Andrian              367
  The Eunuch               408
  The Self-Tormentor       451
  The Brothers             494
  The Step-Mother          535
  Phormio                  568




  THE
  COMEDIES
  OF
  TERENCE.

  TRANSLATED INTO
  FAMILIAR BLANK VERSE,
  BY GEORGE COLMAN.

  Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim:
  Scilicet uni aequus virtuti atque ejus amicis.
  Quin ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorant
  Virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli,
  Nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donec
  Decoqueretur olus, soliti.

  HORACE.


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           *       *       *       *


THE ANDRIAN.


PERSONS REPRESENTED.

  PROLOGUE.
  SIMO.
  PAMPHILUS.
  CHREMES.
  CHARINUS.
  CRITO.
  SOSIA.
  DAVUS.
  BYRRHIA.
  DROMO.
  SERVANTS, ETC.

  GLYCERIUM.
  MYSIS.
  LESBIA.
  ARCHYLLIS.

SCENE, ATHENS.




PROLOGUE.

  The Bard, when first he gave his mind to write,
Thought it his only business, that his Plays
Should please the people: but it now falls out,
He finds, much otherwise, and wastes, perforce,
His time in writing Prologues; not to tell
The argument, but to refute the slanders
Broach'd by the malice of an older Bard.
  And mark what vices he is charg'd withal!
Menander wrote the Andrian and Perinthian:
Know one, and you know both; in argument
Less diff'rent than in sentiment and style.
What suited with the Andrian he confesses
From the Perinthian he transferr'd, and us'd
For his: and this it is these sland'rers blame,
Proving by deep and learned disputation,
That Fables should not be contaminated.
Troth! all the knowledge is they nothing know:
Who, blaming; him, blame Naevius, Plautus, Ennius,
Whose great example is his precedent;
Whose negligence he'd wish to emulate
Rather than _their_ dark diligence. Henceforth,
Let them, I give them warning, be at peace,
And cease to rail, lest they be made to know
Their own misdeeds. Be favorable! sit
With equal mind, and hear our play; that hence
Ye may conclude, what hope to entertain,
The comedies he may hereafter write
Shall merit approbation or contempt.

  [Changes:

  _Harper_
    That Fables should not be contaminated.
  _Colman 1768_
    That Fables should not be confounded thus.]




ACT THE FIRST.


SCENE I.

  _SIMO, SOSIA, and SERVANTS with Provisions._

SIMO.