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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 243

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efore the termination of the evening. The plays of Terence, though of Greek origin, were moulded after afashion of his own, and what little of the material he borrowed wasalmost immaterial to the value of his productions. He received for ono * Chapter xix., p. 202. 210 COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. [CHAP.… … Terence reading his Play to Csecilius. embarked, according to some authorities, for Greece—as our dramatistsembark occasionally for Boulogne—to lay in a new stock of pieces forfuture translation. Other authorities assert that he went to Asia,taking a number of translations with him, and was never…

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