The Student's Companion to Latin Authors

John Stuart Mill · en
The play was produced at the Ludi Megalenses in B.C. 163, as is seen
from the didascalia, 'Incipit Heauton Timorumenos Terenti. Acta ludis
Megalensib. L. Cornelio Lentulo L. Valerio Flacco aedilib. curulib.
Egit Ambivius Turpio. Modos fecit Flaccus Claudi. Acta primum tibis
inparib., deinde duabus dextris. Graeca Menandru. Facta ii. M'
Iuventio Ti. Sempronio cos.'

The play is called 'stataria' in prol. 36,

                            'Date potestatem mihi
  statariam agere ut liceat per silentium.'

3. _Eunuchus_, 'contaminated' from Menander's Εὐνοῦχος and
his Κόλαξ. _Eun._ prol. 19,

                       'Nunc acturi sumus
  Menandri Eunuchum';

_ibid._ 30,

  'Colax Menandrist: in east parasitus colax
  et miles gloriosus: eas se non negat
  personas transtulisse in Eunuchum suam
  ex Graeca: sed eas ab aliis factas prius
  Latinas scisse sese, id vero pernegat.'

The didascalia shows that the piece was produced at the Ludi
Megalenses in B.C. 161, and from the MSS. we may conclude that it was
also acted in B.C. 146. The didascalia is, 'Incipit Eunuchus Terenti.
Acta ludis Megalensib. L. Postumio Albino L. Cornelio Merula aedilib.
curulib. Egit Ambivius Turpio. Modos fecit Flaccus Claudi. Tibis
duabus dextris _tota_. Graeca Menandru. Facta _iii._ M. Valerio C.
Fannio cos.'

Sueton. _vit. Ter._ p. 29, speaks of the success of the play,
'Eunuchus quidem his deinceps acta est meruitque pretium quantum nulla
antea cuiusquam comoedia, octo milia nummum.'

4. _Phormio_, the fifth comedy Terence composed, and the fourth
completely represented. It was first performed at the Ludi Romani,
B.C. 161. The Greek original was the Ἐπιδικαζόμενος of
Apollodorus of Carystus. _Phorm._ prol. 24,

                             'Adporto novam
  Epidicazomenon quam vocant comoediam
  Graeci, Latini Phormionem nominant,
  quia primas partis qui aget, is erit Phormio
  parasitus, per quem res geretur maxume,'

The didascalia is, 'Incipit Terenti Phormio. Acta ludis Romanis. L.
Postumio Albino L. Cornelio Merula aedilib. curulib. Egit L. Ambivius
Turpio. Modos fecit Flaccus Claudi. Tibis imparib. tota. Graeca
Apollodoru Epidicazomenos. Facta iiii. C. Fannio M. Valerio cos.

From notices in the MSS. it is probable that a second representation
took place in B.C. 141 at the Megalesian games.

5. _Hecyra_ is founded on a play by Apollodorus of Carystus, doubtless
called Ἡκυρά; cf. Donatus' preface, 'fabula Apollodori
dicitur esse Graeca.' The first attempted representation was in B.C.
165, at the Ludi Megalenses. _Hec._ prol. i. 1,

                            'Hecyra quom datast
  nova, ei novom intervenit vitium et calamitas,
  ut neque spectari neque cognosci potuerit:
  ita populus studio stupidus in funambulo
  animum occuparat.'

The second (unsuccessful) representation was at the ludi funerales of
Aemilius Paulus in B.C. 160. _Hec._ prol. ii. 38,