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 ...

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.

Phormionis Argumentum, C. Sulpitio Apollinari Authore.

CHremetis frater aberat peregrè Demipho, Relicto Athenis Antiphone filio; Chremes clàm habebat Lemni uxorem at filiā, Athenis aliam conjugem, & amantem uni••è [line 5] Gnatum fidicinam: mater e Lemno advenit Athenas, moritur; virgo sola (aberat Chremes) Funus procurat: ibi eam visam Antipho Cùm amaret, operâ parasiti uxorem ac∣cipit. [line 10] Pater & Chremes reversi fremere; dehinc mi∣nas Triginta dant parasito, ut illam conjugem Haberet ipse: argento emitut fidicina. U••orem retinet Antipho à patruo ag••i••am.