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1732 AFRI COMOEDIAE SEX by TERENCE PRIZED VELLUM BINDING ANTIQUE P.TERENTII

$ 263.99

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Year Printed: 1732
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Binding: Vellum
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Subject: Literature & Fiction
  • Language: Latin
  • Topic: Europe

    Description

    P.TERENTII
    AFRI COMOEDIAE SEX
    Curavit Arrn. Henr. Westerhovius, The Hague, I. van der Kloot, 1732
    LATIN TEXT
    [6], 1322, [46]
    Size 5 by 8 1/4"
    Binding with the central Minerva stamp ("Hagae comitis") of the Latin school of The Hague, together with corner acorns within double fillet border on both sides, gilt spine with the acorn ornament repeated in 5 compartments
    With engraved frontispiece by E.LO. Creite after I.C. Boetius, engraved title vignette.
    THE COLLECTION OF 6 COMEDY PLAYS BY THE ANCIENT ROMAN PLAYRIGHT P TERENTII, COMMONLY KNOWN AS TERRENCE.
    ORIGINAL PRIZED  VELLUM BINDING
    Very good condition, some soiling of vellum
    With letterpress school prize filled out in pen, awarded to Johannes de Meyer, dated 1755, signed in pen by 4 "Haganae Schlolae Curatores" and rector R. Ouwens.
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    Publius Terentius Afer (c.?195/185 – c.?159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic.
    His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC.
    Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease.
    He was supposedly on his way to explore and find more plots to base his comedies on. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by Shakespeare.
    One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos
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