Menedemus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
heautontimoroumenos · that man in Terence
spoken of as
1 expressionTerence's self-tormentor“Menedemus”1 mention
Tusculan Disputations (Latin)
What of that man in Terence, self-tormenting — that is, heautontimōroumenos?
in the texts
Lucullus
Founder of the Eretrian school, which placed the good in the mind's keenness in discerning truth.
From Menedemus, however — because he was of Eretria — they were called Eretrians, whose whole good was placed in the mind and in the keenness of mind by which the truth was discerned — things like those of Herillus, but, I suppose, explained more richly and more ornately.
Tusculan Disputations
Character from Terence's play 'Heautontimoroumenos,' who deliberately chooses self-inflicted wretchedness.
What of that man in Terence, self-tormenting — that is, heautontimōroumenos?
Apologeticum
Philosopher, champion of providence, cited as admiring the translators' unanimity.
seventy-two interpreters were furnished, whom even the philosopher Menedemus, that champion of providence, looked up to for their agreement of judgment.