ve years after the
Andria, A.U.C. 592.]

[Footnote 932: About 80 pounds sterling; the price paid for the two
performances. What further right of authorship is meant by the words
following, is not very clear.]

[Footnote 933: The "Adelphi" was first acted A.U.C. 593.]

[Footnote 934: This report is mentioned by Cicero (Ad Attic, vii. 3), who
applies it to the younger Laelius. The Scipio here mentioned is Scipio
Africanus, who was at this time about twenty-one years of age.]

[Footnote 935: The calends of March was the festival of married women.
See before, VESPASIAN, c. xix.]

[Footnote 936: Santra, who wrote biographies of celebrated characters, is
mentioned as "a man of learning," by St. Jerom, in his preface to the book
on the Ecclesiastical Writers.]

[Footnote 937: The idea seems to have prevailed that Terence, originally
an African slave, could not have attained that purity of style in Latin
composition which is found in his plays, without some assistance. The
style of Phaedrus, however; who was a slave from Thrace, and lived in the
reign of Tiberius, is equally pure, although no such suspicion attaches to
his work.]

[Footnote 938: Cicero (de Clar. Orat. c. 207) gives Sulpicius Gallus a
high character as a finished orator and elegant scholar. He was consul
when the Andria was first produced.]

[Footnote 939: Labeo and Popilius are also spoken of by Cicero in high
terms, Ib. cc. 21 and 24. Q. Fabius Labeo was consul with M. Claudius
Marcellus, A.U.C. 570 and Popilius with L. Postumius Albinus, A.U.C. 580.]

[Footnote 940: The story of Terence's having converted into Latin plays
this large number of Menander's Greek comedies, is beyond all probability,
considering the age at which he died, and other circumstances. Indeed,
Menander never wrote so many as are here stated.]

[Footnote 941: They were consuls A.U.C. 594. Terence was, therefore,
thirty-four years old at the time of his death.]

[Footnote 942: Hortulorum, in the plural number. This term, often found
in Roman authors, not inaptly describes the vast number of little
inclosures, consisting of vineyards, orchards of fig-trees, peaches, etc.,
with patches of tillage, in which maize, legumes, melons, pumpkins, and
other vegetables are cultivated for sale, still found on small properties,
in the south of Europe, particularly in the neighbourhood of towns.]

[Footnote 943: Suetonius has quoted these lines in the earlier part of
his