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THE TITLE OF THE PLAY.

IT is from the Greek of Menander. Performed at the Megalensian Games; Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Valerius Flaccus being Curule Aediles. Ambivius Turpio performed it. Flaccus, the freedman of Claudius, composed the music. The first time it was performed to the music of treble and bass flutes; the second time, of two treble flutes. It was acted three times; Marcus Juventius and Titus Sempronius being Consuls.1 HEAUTONTIMORUMENOS; THE SELF-TORMENTOR.

1 Being Consuls)--M. Juventius Thalna and Ti. Sempronius Gracchus were Consuls in the year from the Building of the City 589, and B.C. 164.

The Comedies of Terence. Henry Thomas Riley. Ney York. Harper and Brothers. 1874.

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