Quintus Consentius[32] writes, that he died at sea, as he was returning from Greece, with one hundred and eight plays, translated from Menander[33]. Other writers affirm, that he died at Stymphalus, a town in Arcadia, or in Leucadia[34], in the consulate of[35] Cneus Cornelius Dolabella and Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, and that his end was hastened by extreme grief for the loss of the comedies which he had translated, and some others which he had composed himself, and sent before him in a vessel which was afterwards wrecked. He is said to have been of a middle stature, well-shaped, and of a dark complexion. He left one daughter, who was afterwards married to [36]a Roman knight, and bequeathed to her a garden of [37]XX jugera, near the Appian Way, and close to the [38]Villa Martis: it is therefore surprising that Portius should write thus: ――――nihil Publius Scipio profuit, nihil ei Lælius, nihil Furius: Tres per idem tempus qui agitabant nobiles facillime, Eorum ille opera ne domum quidem habuit conductitiam: Saltem ut esset, quo referret obitum domini servulus. “His three great friends, Scipio, Lælius, and Furius, give him no assistance, nor even enable him to hire a house, that there might at least be a place where his slave might announce to Rome his master’s death.” Afranius[39] prefers Terence to all the comic poets, saying, in his Compitalia[40]. Terentio non similem dices quempiam. “Terence is without an equal.” But Volcatius places him not only after [41]Nævius, [42]Plautus, and [43]Cæcilius, but even after [44]Licinius. [45]Cicero, in his ΛΕΙΜΩΝ, writes of Terence thus, Tu quoque qui solus lecto sermone, Terenti, Conversum, expressumque Latina voce Menandrum In medio populi sedatis vocibus effers, Quicquid come loquens, ac omnia dulcia dicens. “And thou, also, O Terence, whose pure style alone could make Menander speak the Latin tongue, thou, with the sweetest harmony and grace, hast given him to Rome.” Also Caius Julius Cæsar[46], Tu quoque tu in Summis, O dimidiate Menander, Poneris et merito, puri sermonis amator, Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adjuncta foret vis Comica ut æquato virtus polleret honore, Cum Græcis neque in hac despectus parte jaceres, Unum hoc maceror, et doleo tibi deesse Terenti. “And thou, also, O thou half Menander, art justly placed among the most divine poets, for the purity of thy style. O would that humour had kept pace with ease in all thy writings; then thou wouldest not have been compelled to yield even to the Greeks; nor could a single defect have been objected to thee. But, as it is, thou hast this great defect, and this, O Terence, I lament.” THE ANDRIAN, A Comedy, ACTED AT THE MEGALESIAN GAMES[47];