Phormio

Name: Phormio
Author: Terence Publius

by Terence Publius

Roman farce of a parasitic soldier and romantic entanglements unfold

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Terence Publius

Terence refined Roman comedy with greater psychological depth and more elegant Latin than Plautus, drawing directly on Menander. His six surviving comedies were canonical school texts throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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