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The following Index has been compiled from Hieronymus: L. Livius Andronicus, Cn. Naevius, T. Maccius Plautus, Q. Ennius, Statius Caecilius, P. Terentius Afer, M. Pacuvius, L. Accius, Sex. Turpilius, C. Lucilius, P. Quintius Atta, L. Afranius, L. Pomponius, T. Lucretius Carus, M. Furius Bibaculus, C. Valerius Catullus, P. Terentius Varro, D. Laberius, P. Publilius Lochius, Cornificius, M. Bavius, C. Cornelius Gallus, Aemilius Macer, Quintilius Varus, P. Vergilius Maro, Albius Tibullus, Sex. Propertius, Q. Horatius Flaccus, L. Varius Rufus, P. Ovidius Naso, Philistio, A. Persius Flaccus, M. Annaeus Lucanus.

The following Sigla are used :

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For Terence: A cod. Parisinus, 7920, eleventh century; B = cod. Parisinus, 7921; C = cod. Leidensis Vossianus, 186; D: cod. Dresdensis Elect. 539b, Reg. D. 101; E = cod. Urbinas, 354; F = cod. Reginensis, 1496; G = cod. Neapolitanus, Mus. Borbon. 411 (all of the fifteenth century); Z = editio princeps of Donatus, Rome, 1472; Ald. Aldine ed. of 1517; St. ed. of Stephanus, Paris, 1529; Dz. Dziatzko; Reiff. Reifferscheid. For Vergil: B = cod. Bernensis, 172, ninth or tenth century; G = cod. Sangallensis, 862, tenth

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century; P= cod. Parisinus Lat. 11308 (formerly Suppl. Lat. 1011), ninth century; 5 = Edition of Vergil by Heyne-Wagener, i. pp. lxxxi. ff.

For Horace: V

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cod. Blandinianus Vetustissicod. Parisinus, 7974, tenth__century; = cod. Parisinus, 7971, tenth century; F

mus;

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ф and

; Parisinus, 7972, tenth century; p = Parisinus λ = Lat. 8214, twelfth century; s = mss. which contain the Life in a abridged form; see note 6, p. 484.

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For Tibulus: A cod. Ambrosianus, R 26 sup., fourteenth century; V = cod. Vaticanus, 3270; g cod. Guelferbytanus, Ms. Aug. 82, 6 fol., both of the fifteenth century; other mss. or the Itali.

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For Aulus Persius Flaccus: A cod. Montepessulanus, 212, tenth century; B = cod. Vaticanus, tab. basil. Vat., H. 36, ninth century; P= cod. Montepessulanus, 125, formerly Pithoeanus.

For Lucan: M = cod. Montepessulanus, H. 113; B = cod. Bernensis, 45; P = cod. Parisinus, 7502, formerly Colbertinus, all of the tenth century.

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VITA TERENTI

I. PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER, Carthagine natus, serviit Romae Terentio Lucano senatori, a quo ob ingenium et formam non institutus modo liberaliter sed et mature manumissus est. Quidam captum esse existimant, quod fieri nullo modo potuisse Fenestella docet, cum inter finem secundi Punici belli et initium tertii natus sit et 1 mortuus; nec si a Numidis et Gaetulis captus sit, ad ducem2 Romanum pervenire potuisse, nullo commercio inter Italicos et Afros nisi post deletam Carthaginem coepto. Hic cum multis nobilibus familiariter vixit, sed maxime cum Scipione Africano et C.3 Laelio. Quibus etiam corporis gratia conciliatus existimatur, quod et ipsum Fenestella arguit, contendens utroque maiorem natu fuisse, quamvis et Nepos aequales omnes fuisse tradat et Porcius suspicionem de consuetudine per haec faciat :

1 natus sit et, Ald. ; et natus sit et, Ritschl; natus est et,

mss.

2 ad ducem, mss.; ad dominum, J. Gronov (Reiff., Dz.). 3 C., AF; the other mss. have cum.

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THE LIFE OF TERENCE

I. PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER, born at Carthage, was the slave at Rome of Terentius Lucanus, a senator, who because of the young man's talent and good looks not only gave him a liberal education, but soon set him free. Some think that he was taken in war, but Fenestella shows that that could not possibly be, since Terence was born and died between the end of the second Punic war and the beginning of the third; 201-149 and even if he had been taken by the Numidians and B.C. Gaetulians, he could not have come into the hands of a Roman general, since commerce between the Italic and the African races did not begin until after the destruction of Carthage. He lived on 146 B.C. intimate terms with many men of high rank, in particular with Scipio Africanus and Gaius Laelius. It is even thought that he won the favour of these two men by his youthful beauty, but Fenestella denies this too, maintaining that he was older than either of them. Nepos, however, writes that they were all three of an age, and Porcius rouses a suspicion of too great intimacy in the following words:

"Dum lasciviam nobilium et laudes fucosas petit, Dum Africani vocem divinam inhiat 1 ́avidis auribus, Dum ad Philum 2 se cenitare et Laelium pulchrum putat,

Dum in Albanum crebro rapitur 3 ob florem aetatis

suae:

Post sublatis rebus ad summam inopiam redactus

est.

Itaque e conspectu omnium abit Graeciam in terram ultimam,

Mortuust Stymphali, Arcadiae in 5 oppido. Nil Publius 6

Scipio profuit, nil illi Laelius, nil Furius,

Tres per id tempus qui agitabant nobiles facillime. Eorum ille opera ne domum quidem habuit conducticiam,

Saltem ut esset quo referret obitum domini servulus."

II. Scripsit comoedias sex, ex quibus primam "Andriam cum aedilibus daret, iussus ante Caecilio' recitare, ad cenantem cum venisset, dictus est initium quidem fabulae, quod erat contemptiore vestitu, subsellio iuxta lectulum residens legisse, post paucos vero versus invitatus ut accumberet cenasse una, dein cetera percucurrisse non sine magna Caecilii admiratione. Et hanc autem et

1 vocem divinam inhiat, Muretus; você dum et inhuius et, A; the other mss. have voce divina inhiat.

2 Philum, Roth; fixu, A ; the other mss. have furium.

3 The reading of Ritschl; A has dum se amari ab his credat crebro in Albanum rapitur; the other mss., dum . . . credit . . rapi.

Stymphali, Ritschl; mortuus est in falo, A, with similar readings in the other mss.; Stymphalo, Roth. Publio, E (Ritschl).

5 in, added by Roth.