Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afris poëtae lepidissimi comoediae sex Anglo-Latinae in usum ludi-discipulorum, quo Feliciùs venustatem linguae Latinae ad sermonem quotidianum exercendum assequantur / a Carolo Hoole ... = Six comedies of that excellent poet Publius Terentius, an African of Carthage, in English and Latine : for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine tongue for common discourse / by Charles Hoole ...

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Title: Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afris poëtae lepidissimi comoediae sex Anglo-Latinae in usum ludi-discipulorum, quo Feliciùs venustatem linguae Latinae ad sermonem quotidianum exercendum assequantur / a Carolo Hoole ... = Six comedies of that excellent poet Publius Terentius, an African of Carthage, in English and Latine : for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine tongue for common discourse / by Charles Hoole ...
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Publication: London :: Printed for the Company of Stationers,; 1663.
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Subject terms: Latin drama (Comedy)
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The Argument or Plot of Phormio, by Caius Sulpicius Apollinaris.
DEmipho the brother of Chremes was gon into another countrey,
Having left his son Antipho at Athens:
Chremes had closely a wife and a daughter at Lemnus,
And another wife at Athens, and a son that entirely loved
 [line 5]  A singing-wench: the mother comes from Lemnus
To Athens; she dieth, and the maid alone (Chremes was absent)
Takes charge of the burial: when Antipho fell in love with her,
Having there got a sight of her, he by means of a parasite took her to wife.
 [line 10]  His father and Chremes being returned chafed at it••; afterwards they gave
The parasite thirtie pounds, that he himself might
Have her to wife: the singing-wench is bought with the •…•…ie.
Antipho retaineth his wife being owned by his uncle.