TERENCE’S ANDRIAN. TERENCE’S ANDRIAN, A Comedy, in Five Acts, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE, WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY W. R. GOODLUCK, JUN. The Athenian and Roman plays were written with such a regard to morality, that Socrates used to frequent the one, and Cicero the other. SPECTATOR; No. 446. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1820. LONDON: Printed by W. CLOWES, Northumberland-court. PREFACE. If an apology for the following translation cannot be found in the work itself, it would be to little purpose to insert it in the Preface. I have attempted to present to the public the most celebrated dramatist of ancient Rome, in such a dress as may enable the English reader, learned and unlearned equally, to relish, in his own language, the beauties of this great poet. Though the original is composed in verse, I have employed prose in this translation, because the verse of Terence approaches so very nearly to prose, that in prose only is it possible to adhere faithfully to the words, and particularly to the style of our author; as we have in our language no measure of verse at all corresponding with that used by Terence.