Roman playwright
195 BCE to 159 BCE
Publius Terentius Afer (195/185–159 BCE), better known in English as Terence, is a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent.
His comedies are performed for the first time around 170–160 BCE.
Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brings Terence to Rome as a slave, educates him and later on, impressed by his abilities, frees him.
Terence apparently dies young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome.
All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.
One famous quotation by Terence reads: Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto, or "I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me."
This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos.
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