Terence's Andrian, a comedy, in five acts

by Terence

——nihil Publius

Scipio profuit, nihil ei Lælius, nihil Furius:

Tres per idem tempus qui agitabant nobiles facillime,

Eorum ille opera ne domum quidem habuit conductitiam:

Saltem ut esset, quo referret obitum domini servulus.

“His three great friends, Scipio, Lælius, and Furius, give him no assistance, nor even enable him to hire a house, that there might at least be a place where his slave might announce to Rome his master’s death.”

Afranius[39] prefers Terence to all the comic poets, saying, in his Compitalia[40].

Terentio non similem dices quempiam.
“Terence is without an equal.”

But Volcatius places him not only after [41]Nævius, [42]Plautus, and [43]Cæcilius, but even after [44]Licinius. [45]Cicero, in his ΛΕΙΜΩΝ, writes of Terence thus,

Tu quoque qui solus lecto sermone, Terenti,