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Title: The Comedies of TerenceAuthor: TerenceTranslator: George ColmanRelease date: September 21, 2007 [eBook #22695]Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Title: The Comedies of Terence
Author: TerenceTranslator: George Colman
Author: Terence
Translator: George Colman
Release date: September 21, 2007 [eBook #22695]
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COMEDIES OF TERENCE ***
This translation of Terence was published by Harper & Brothers as the second part of an omnibus volume also containing the 1853 Riley translation (prose, with notes and commentary). The Riley portion has been released asa separate e-text.This e-text includes readings from the 1768 second edition of Colman, shown along the right side of the screen. In general, only differences in wording are included; variations in spelling and punctuation were disregarded, and stage directions are omitted unless significant. It is not known whether the Harper’s text was based on the first edition of Colman or some later edition. Where the Harper text was clearly in error, the 1768 reading was substituted in the main text. Errors are marked with mouse-hover popups:—Shared errors.—Errors in the Harper text, corrected from the 1768 edition. In some plays, quotation marks were also supplied from the 1768 edition.—Errors in the1768 edition.Page numbers in the left margin are from the 1896 Harper text, which is generally identical to the original 1859 printing and may have been set from the same plates. Page numbers in the right margin are from the 1768 Colman edition.All illustrations are from the 1768 Colman edition.
This translation of Terence was published by Harper & Brothers as the second part of an omnibus volume also containing the 1853 Riley translation (prose, with notes and commentary). The Riley portion has been released asa separate e-text.
This e-text includes readings from the 1768 second edition of Colman, shown along the right side of the screen. In general, only differences in wording are included; variations in spelling and punctuation were disregarded, and stage directions are omitted unless significant. It is not known whether the Harper’s text was based on the first edition of Colman or some later edition. Where the Harper text was clearly in error, the 1768 reading was substituted in the main text. Errors are marked with mouse-hover popups:
—Shared errors.—Errors in the Harper text, corrected from the 1768 edition. In some plays, quotation marks were also supplied from the 1768 edition.—Errors in the1768 edition.
Page numbers in the left margin are from the 1896 Harper text, which is generally identical to the original 1859 printing and may have been set from the same plates. Page numbers in the right margin are from the 1768 Colman edition.
All illustrations are from the 1768 Colman edition.
Frontispiece: Two men with bust of Terence
THECOMEDIESOFTERENCE.LITERALLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE,WITH NOTES.By HENRY THOMAS RILEY, B.A.,LATE SCHOLAR OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE.TO WHICH IS ADDEDTHE BLANK VERSE TRANSLATION OFGEORGE COLMAN.NEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,FRANKLIN SQUARE.1896.
CICERO’S OFFICES, LÆLIUS, CATO MAJOR, PARADOXES, SCIPIO’S DREAM, LETTER TO QUINTUS.
CICERO ON ORATORY AND ORATORS.
CICERO’S TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS, THE NATURE OF THE GODS, AND THE COMMONWEALTH.
PLATO (SELECT DIALOGUES).
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The Andrian
The Eunuch
The Self-Tormentor
The Brothers
The Step-Mother
Phormio
THECOMEDIESOFTERENCE.TRANSLATED INTOFAMILIAR BLANK VERSE,BY GEORGE COLMAN.Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim:Scilicet uni æquus virtuti atque ejus amicis.Quin ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorantVirtus Scipiadæ et mitis sapientia Læli,Nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donecDecoqueretur olus, soliti.Horace.
Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim:Scilicet uni æquus virtuti atque ejus amicis.Quin ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorantVirtus Scipiadæ et mitis sapientia Læli,Nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donecDecoqueretur olus, soliti.Horace.
Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim:Scilicet uni æquus virtuti atque ejus amicis.Quin ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorantVirtus Scipiadæ et mitis sapientia Læli,Nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donecDecoqueretur olus, soliti.
Primores populi arripuit populumque tributim:
Scilicet uni æquus virtuti atque ejus amicis.
Quin ubi se a vulgo et scena in secreta remorant
Virtus Scipiadæ et mitis sapientia Læli,
Nugari cum illo et discincti ludere, donec
Decoqueretur olus, soliti.
Horace.
comic masks