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T E R 



Compare mat It., mail Fr., mas Sp. 



as in French. 



lofruma s larma. ComptnttrmtHl.toomtacramentum. 

 kodtt = og ft, * in Italian. 



,{,., = jri. Compare tur, journtf. 



r g , = y>- Compare Italian. 



,- . SB eon. Compare Cicero's story about the word 



MM. 



.' . ' fat, as in French. 

 amtbtu = qun. Compare the loss of b in the dat. pi. of 



the first and second declensions. 

 tiki = ti. ) 



tibi = ii. I Compare the Romance, Ital., Fr., Sp., and 



flu =r I. I mifii = MIL 



vtn = ou.) 



obi = 01. 



j i,i,-- = ju. Compare the perfect jutti. 



t*d* = in. Compare the French en, and Latin dein, 



fj-in. See. 



r>-li = ret. 



ma fit = matt, 



minut = mint. 



aliut = alyut. Compare Greek aXXoc. 



facere = fare. Compare Fr., Ital., Sp. 



rigilare. = rigliare. Compare Fr., Ital. 



TI./- = ri. Compare Fr. roi'-ci, voi-la. 



novot = nous. Compare Greek vioc, English new. 



tint = tin. Compare Fr., Ital., Sp. 



duo = do. Compare Greek tu-lma. Fr., Eng. 



tile. Sic. = il or If, &c. Compare It., Fr., Sp. 



bonut = bon, 



bent = ben. 



malt = mat. 



homo =r homme, as in French. 



r = r. Compare the forms of the fifth declension 



used by Caesar, Virgil, &c. 

 pufr = pur m par. Compare Greek iroif, Spartan 



voip, Latin Lucipor. 



tutu, &c. = tut or tot. } Compare It., Fr., Sp., and also 

 mrut, &c.= mu, &c. > the forms used by Ennius, and 

 luut = tut, &c. J in Greek. 

 fuit = fut. Compare It., Fr., and Latin/ore. 

 animut amtit. Compare Ital., Fr. 

 annut = anus. Compare Fr. 

 edepol = epol. Compare ecastor, ecere, &c. 

 legere = fere. Compare Fr. 

 oculut = ofilut. Compare Fr. 

 generit = genrit. Compare Fr. 

 aperire r= aprire. Compare It., Fr., Sp. 

 opera = opra. Compare the form in Ennius, and Fr.. 



Sp. 



timilit = tim'lit. Compare Fr. triable, Eng. resemble, 

 tamen = tan. Compare tametsi for tamenetsi, and 



tuiidem for tamendem. 

 aliquit = alquit. Compare It. alcuno, Fr. aucun, from 



(i/iijiiix-u/iut. 

 fiujut = /n't. Compare the abbreviation of nulltua 



into nuICfus and //i. 

 ejtu = i>. 



For a more detailed exhibition of these words see 

 Journal rtf Education, vol. ii.. p. 344 ; and on the subject 

 of Latin prosody generally, the same work, vol. iv., p. :ci(i. 

 It should be added that of modern editors Hermann, 

 Beit he, and IJndemann alone seem to have a distinct idea 

 of the nature of the metres of Terence and Plautus, for all 

 that has been said applies to Plautus as well as Terence. 

 Among older writers. He'iitU'v certainly possessed a clearer 

 insight into the subject than some of his notes would lead 

 one to suppose. That this is (lie case is proved by an anec- 

 dote in Bishop Monk that scholar. The reverend 

 doctor, dining at a friend s house in London, kept the 

 gentlemen longer over their wine than was thought proper 

 by the ladies in the drawing-room, and added to the' 

 scandal when his voice was heard, even above stairs, in 

 what wan supposed to bv a K>ng to the tune of ' Unfortunate 

 Miss Bailey.' The doctor was only reading to them some 

 specimen of Terences Comie- us, or, to use a 

 Haider phrait*, the Iambic Tetrameter Csr 



ilA'M'S MA! .TKKKNTIV. 



.1! S. 01 mo,.- fully I'. TKKKNTirs AKKR. 

 W one of the two e-onue- poet- IIOM- works have 



come don to us. The facts ol his ,ile , i if dis- 



pute pv r n among the Roman* themselves, ll we may rely 

 Uw biogiaphy attributed by home to Donatus, by 



others to Suetonius, he was born at Carthapre, and became 

 the slave of a Roman senator naim l.u-anu.s, 



who, pleased with his abilities and hainlsunie JX-I-SIMI. 

 gave him a liberal education and afterwards his fieedom at 



iy age. Some, on the >illu-r hand, stated that he ori- 

 ginally fell into slavery as a prisoner ol war. A' Kmne lie 



..n terms of intimacy with manj nu-n of family, more 

 particularly the second Scipio Africanus and his friend 

 Lad ins, who were even said to have assisted in the com- 

 position of the six comedies which bear the- name of 

 Terence. There were even some who asserted that 

 two nobles merely borrowed the name of Terence for what 

 was wholly their own. Before he had completed his 

 thirty-fifth year he left Rome, either to avoid the odium 

 which grew out of the suspicion that he had published the 

 writing^ of others as his own, or to study the institutions 

 and manners of the Greek nation, and thus qualify himself 

 for fresh exertions in the field he had chosen. He never 

 returned, but the accounts of his death were various. 

 Some said that he embarked for Asia, and wan never seen 

 from the hour of his embarkation; others that he died on 

 his way back from Greece, where he had translated one 

 hundred and eight plays til Mcnander; while others 



contended that having sent his translated plays in a 

 rate ship, he received the news that this ship with his 

 valued property was lost at sea, and died through trrief, in 

 the consulship of Cn. Cornelius Dolabella and M. Fulvius 

 Nobilior, either at fSlymphalus in Arcadia or at the Leu- 

 cadian promontory. He was of moderate stature, slender 

 figure, and dark complexion. He left a daughter, Avho 

 married a Roman of equestrian rank, and a property of six 

 jugers on the Appian road. But another authority reports 

 that he died in the most abject poverty. Eusebius. or rather 

 St. Jerome, places the death of Terence in tin 

 Ptolemy Phnometor, and this kins died in the third year ol 

 the 158th Olympiad, or the close of 14G B.C. 



The difficulties in the life of Terence are chiefly of ,1 

 chronological character: the following table of ascertained 

 dates hears upon it : 



218 B.C. Commencement of Second Punic War. 



201 B.C. Peace granted to the Carthaginians. 



IR'J n.c. Birth of Scipio Africanus tlie younger. 



184 B.C. Death of Plautus. 



169 B.C. Death of Ennius. 



KJS DC. Death of Ca'cilius (partly on the authority of 

 St. Jerome). 



B.C. The ' Andria' acted at the Megalensian games. 



l(i.~i n.c. The ' Hecyra' acted at the same can; 



1G3 B.C. The ' Hautontimonimenos' acted at the same 

 sranus. 



1G1 B.C. The ' Eunuchos' acted at the same games, and 

 the ' Phormio ' at the Roman tames. 



ICO B.f. Death of .-Kmilius Paulus. The 'Adelphoe 

 acted at his funeral games, at the expence of his sons 

 Fahius and Scipio. 



l.'i.) n.c. Consulship of Cn. Cornelius Dolabella and M. 

 FiiKius Nobilior. 



1-lt) B.C. Commencement of the Third Punic War. 



Thus it api>i;a> that the whole period of Terence's life 

 must have been included in the peace between theSrcoinl 

 and the Third Punic wars; so that if taken prisoner in 

 war. that war could not have been one between Ron 

 Carthage. Again, there is a chronological difficulty in 

 the story that the poet, when he offered his ' Andria' to 

 the (rdilcs, w:^ directed to obtain the approval of Caecilius; 

 that be accordingly went Jo the house of the latter, and 

 was coldly hidden to seat himself on a stool nnd com- 

 mence reading while the other dined; but that aivr 

 a few verses Caecilius was so charmed that he invited 

 Terence to take his seat at the table and dine with him, 

 after which he read through the remainder of Ih. 

 and filled Csscilius with admiration. Now the death of 

 CwciliiiK. though the dale, as we have observed, is in some 

 measure founded upon the testimony of St. Jerome, 

 occurred two years before the ' Andria' was acted. The 

 assertion that Scipio and I.wlius assisted the poet is not 

 altogether rendered impossible by the \outh of the pailus, 

 although Scipio was but nineteen when the Andria was 

 acted, and Lse.ins was of about the same age with his 

 friend; but the difficulty b, :iter when we find in 



the piologue of the 'Adelphoe,' that the nobles who were 

 said to give him their aid are spoken of in terms scarcely 

 applicable to men so young. 



