[Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers, including many single words of Greek in the footnotes: Œ, œ [“oe” ligature] χρέμπτομαι If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the latin-1 version of the file instead. This translation of Terence was published in an omnibus volume, also containing the 1765 Colman translation (text only, omitting notes and commentary). Since there is no shared material, the two versions have been released as separate e-texts. More information about the Riley translation and its publishing history is given at the end of this e-text. In the original text, words and phrases supplied by the translator were printed in _italics_. In this e-text they are shown in {braces}. Italics in the notes and commentary are shown conventionally with _lines_. Each play is a free-standing unit with its own footnotes.] The COMEDIES of TERENCE. Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes. By HENRY THOMAS RILEY, B.A., Late Scholar of Clare Hall, Cambridge. To which is added the blank verse translation of GEORGE COLMAN. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square. 1896. Harper’s NEW CLASSICAL LIBRARY. Comprising Literal Translations of Cæsar. Virgil. Sallust. Horace. Terence. Tacitus. 2 Vols. Livy. 2 Vols. Cicero’s Orations. Cicero’s Offices, Lælius, Cato Major, Paradoxes, Scipio’s Dream, Letter to Quintus. Cicero On Oratory and Orators. Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, The Nature of the Gods, and The Commonwealth. Juvenal. Xenophon. Homer’s Iliad. Homer’s Odyssey. Herodotus. Demosthenes. 2 Vols. Thucydides. Æschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. 2 Vols. Plato (Select Dialogues). 12mo, Cloth, $1.00 per Volume. Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. _The above works are for sale by all booksellers, or they will be sent by HARPER & BROTHERS to any address on receipt of price as quoted. If ordered sent by mail, 10 per cent. should be added to the price to cover cost of postage._ PREFACE. In this Version of the Plays of Terence the Text of Volbehr, 1846, has been followed, with the few exceptions mentioned in the Notes. The Translator has endeavored to convey faithfully the meaning of the author, and although not rigorously literal, he has, he trusts, avoided such wild departures from the text as are found in the versions of Echard, Cooke, Patrick, and Gordon.