Third edition of Schrevel’s ‘variorum’, which gives as much attention to the playwright’s earlier commentators (the fourth century A.D. grammarian, Aelius Donatus and the sixth century commentator Eugraphius) as to more recent commentators. The playwright Terence (d. 159 B.C.) was born into slavery at Carthage and brought to Rome, where he was freed, taking his old master’s name. His six comedies, which stand out for their particular naturalistic style, were admired right through the Middle Ages for their moral arguments, and were still on school curricula in the nineteenth century.
Dibdin II, 473; Schweiger, 1065.