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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3090678.2
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A long thin white paper cut out entry from a book catalogue. 'THOMAS THORP, 47 HOLBORN VIADUCT, LONDON, E.C.1 19 199 TERENTIUS AFER (Publius) Terence in English. Fabulae Comici facetissimi et Elegantissimi poetae Terentii Omnes Anglicae factae et hac nova forma editae. Opera ac industria R[ichard] B[ernard], Fifth Edition, sm. 4to, contemporary limp vellum (last few leaves slightly frayed in upper corner), £52 [24c] printed by John Lagatt and are to be sold by James Boler, 1629'. this is stuck to the inside of the velum cover of the book 'Terence in English. . Fabulae comici facetissimi et elegantissimi poetæ Terentii omnes Anglicae factæ & hac noua forma editæ: opera ac industria, R.B. in Axholmensi insula Lincolnsherij Epwortheatis.' by Terence (c.190-159 BC) (record 3090678). Terence, full name Publius Terentius Afer, became after Plautus the greatest Roman comic dramatist, the author of six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin and deeply influenced the development of Western comedy. Terence was born in North Africa. As a child he was taken to Rome as a slave to a Roman senator who educated him and later freed him and whose name, Terentius, he adopted. Terence, as a translator and adaptor of Greek comedy, expressed in Latin the comedy of manners. He based his plays on those of the Athenian playwright Menander (3/4th cent.BC), he won his fame partly because his plays have made known to succeeding generations those of Menander (few of which survived).