P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law, act prologue, THE TITLE OF THE PLAY.

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THE TITLE OF THE PLAY.

PERFORMED at the Megalensian Games; Sextus Julius Caesar and Cneius Cornelius Dolabella being Curule Aediles. The whole was not then acted. Flaccus, the freedman of Claudius, composed the music to a pair of flutes. It was composed wholly from the Greek of Menander.¹ It was performed the first time without a Prologue. Represented a second time; Cneius Octavius and T. Manlius being Consuls.² It was then brought out in honor of L. Aemilius Paulus, at his Funeral Games, and was not approved of. It was repeated a third time; Q. Fulvius and L. Marcius being Curule Aediles. L. Ambivius Turpio performed it. It was then approved of.³

1 Menander)--According to some, this Play was borrowed from the Greek of Apollodorus, a Comic Poet and contemporary of Menander, who wrote forty-seven Plays.

2 Being Consuls)--Cneius Octavius Nepos and T. Manlius Torquatus were Consuls in the year from the building of the City 587, and B.C. 166.

3 It was then approved of)--" Placuit." This is placed at the end, in consequence of the inauspicious reception which had been given to it on the two first representations. See the account given in the Prologues.

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

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