tter to Quintus.
Cicero On Oratory and Orators.
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, The Nature of the Gods,
and The Commonwealth.
Juvenal.
Xenophon.
Homer's Iliad.
Homer's Odyssey.
Herodotus.
Demosthenes. 2 Vols.
Thucydides.
AEschylus.
Sophocles.
Euripides. 2 Vols.
Plato (Select Dialogues).

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CONTENTS.

COMEDIES OF TERENCE: IN VERSE.

The Andrian 367
The Eunuch 408
The Self-Tormentor 451
The Brothers 494
The Step-Mother 535
Phormio 568

THE
COMEDIES
OF
TERENCE.

TRANSLATED INTO
FAMILIAR BLANK VERSE,
BY GEORGE COLMAN.

Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim:
Scilicet uni aequus virtuti atque ejus amicis.
Quin ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorant
Virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli,
Nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donec
Decoqueretur olus, soliti.

HORACE.

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THE ANDRIAN.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

PROLOGUE.
SIMO.
PAMPHILUS.
CHREMES.
CHARINUS.
CRITO.
SOSIA.
DAVUS.
BYRRHIA.
DROMO.
SERVANTS, ETC.

GLYCERIUM.
MYSIS.
LESBIA.
ARCHYLLIS.

SCENE, ATHENS.

PROLOGUE.

The Bard, when first he gave his mind to write,
Thought it his only business, that his Plays
Should please the people: but it now falls out,
He finds, much otherwise, and wastes, perforce,
His time in writing Prologues; not to tell
The argument, but to refute the slanders
Broach'd by the malice of an older Bard.
And mark what vices he is charg'd withal!
Menander wrote the Andrian and Perinthian:
Know one, and you know both; in argument
Less diff'rent than in sentiment and style.
What suited with the Andrian he confesses
From the Perinthian he transferr'd, and us'd
For his: and this it is these sland'rers blame,
Proving by deep and learned disputation,
That Fables should not be contaminated.
Troth! all the knowledge is they nothing know:
Who, blaming; him, blame Naevius, Plautus, Ennius,
Whose great example is his pre