If we stop here, it is natural enough to conclude, that in the Prologue to the Andrian, he is alluding to censures passed on some former play. But, if we look at the next nine lines we see that _in the prologue to the Andrian_, he repels a censure _not passed on any former production, but on the_ ANDRIAN _itself_. Listen, says he, to their objections, which are, in short, that in the composition of _this very Andrian_, he has made a confused mixture of two of Menander’s plays. What allusion is made to any former writings? None: the snarling criticisms of the older bard were directed _only_ against the _Andrian_. I imagine that the case was thus: Terence wrote the Andrian, and procured its representation, probably without any Prologue, (which was sometimes dispensed with, as we see in Plautus,) the play, and its author, were, probably, cried down and abused by this older bard and his admirers, who might envy the visible superiority of Terence, who _afterwards_ composed the Prologue in question, to answer their objections. The reader is referred for further proof, to Suetonius’s Life of Terence, a translation of which is prefixed to this play. NOTE 57. _To answer the snarling malice of an older poet._ According to Donatus, the name of this older bard was Lucius Lavinius: but there can be little doubt but that name is a corruption of Luscius Lanuvinus, the arch-enemy of Terence, whom he handles so roughly in his Prologue to the Eunuch. Luscius was a poet of considerable talent. Volcatius gives him the ninth place, “Nono loco esse facilè facio Luscium.” Luscius undoubtedly I make the ninth. NOTE 58. _Menander wrote the Andrian and Perinthian._ The _Perinthian_ (a fine comedy now lost) was so called from Perinthus, a town of Thrace, the name of which was afterwards changed to Heraclea, and that name is now corrupted to Herecli, or Erekli, its present appellation. Erekli is a town in the Turkish province of Romania, on the north of the sea of Marmora, and about sixty miles from Constantinople. It is a place of some consequence from its vicinity to the Turkish capital. For the _Andrian_, _vide_ Note 69. NOTE 59. _They censure Nævius, Plautus, Ennius._