Terence
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages · author page
Terence's Chremes · that man in Terence
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Roman comic playwright whose character Chremes and play Andria are invoked as examples.
'Am I,' says he, 'to read the Synephebi of Caecilius or the Andria of Terence rather than both plays of Menander?
For just as Terence's Chremes is not inhumane when he is unwilling that his new neighbour should 'dig or plough or carry anything at all' — since it is not from industry but from servile drudgery that he deters him — so these meddlesome critics are offended by a labour that is to me by no means unwelcome.
Nor indeed, if some are found who seek either nooses or other deaths, or, like that man in Terence, who 'resolved meanwhile to do less injustice to his own son,' as he himself says, 'until he should be made wretched,' is he to be thought his own enemy.
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman comic playwright quoted for a line illustrating deified natural goods (Ceres, Liber, Venus).
And so at one time they called by the name of a god the thing which was born of a god, as when we call the crops Ceres and wine Liber — whence that line of Terence,
'Without Ceres and Liber, Venus grows cold' — and at another time the thing itself, in which there is some greater force, is so named that the very force is called a god, as Faith, as Mind, which we see dedicated on the Capitol, the one quite lately by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, while Faith had been consecrated earlier by Aulus Atilius Calatinus.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman comic playwright credited with adapting the premeditation doctrine into Latin verse.
\" Therefore, since Terence, having taken this from philosophy, said it so aptly, shall not we, from whose springs it was drawn, both say it better and feel it more steadfastly?