Terence Definition

tĕrəns
noun
A masculine name: dim. Terry.
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Synonyms:
  • Publius Terentius Afer
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proper name
(L. name Publius Terentius Afer) 195?-159? b.c.; Rom. writer of comedies.
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Carthaginian-born Roman playwright. His plays, including Phormio and Adelphi, are largely based on Greek comedies and feature fine dialogue and subtle humor.
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Terence Sentence Examples

  • The plots of Plautus also are more varied than those of Terence.

  • He is also appealed to, with Plautus and Ennius, as a master of his art in one of the prologues of Terence.

  • The titles of most of them, like those of Plautus, and unlike those of Caecilius and Terence, are Latin, not Greek.

  • As a dramatist he worked more in the spirit of Plautus than of Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius or Terence; but the great Umbrian humorist is separated from his older contemporary, not only by his breadth of comic power, but by his general attitude of moral and political indifference.

  • Virgil, Statius, Terence, Juvenal, Horace, Persius and Lucan are specially named as entering into a course of training which was rendered more stimulating by a free use of open discussion.

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