#Publius Terentius Afer

[tityre-tu-scurra]

I've been reading Adelphoe

Translation: Do you know what's not good, Bobby? / Being too rigid with sons.

[melimelomoi-blog]

Telling to myself "it's none of my business" doesn't work for me. I'm curious about everything, I'm a nosy bitch, I want to know all of it, no details left unsaid. I'm human, I consider nothing human alien to me.

[frimleyblogger]

Lost Word Of The Day (13)

to gnathonise - to toady or flatter #lostwords #obscurewords #logophilia

How much has the English language lost as a result in the decline in the familiarity with the classical literature of Ancient Greece and Rome? I began musing on this when I came across the verb gathonise which was used particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries to describe the actions a toady or someone who excels in the art of flattery. Gnatho was the name of a character in Eunuchus, a play…

[linusjf]

Publius Terentius Afer (Terence): Disposition of women

“I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won’t; when you won’t, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.” —Publius Terentius Afer (Terence).

[relevant-catnik]

Terence of Africa

So, hey, it’s Black History Month for a few days yet.  So why not share some love for the first documented African playwright?  The following images are from the Vatican’s Comedies of Terence.  

 Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) was born ~195/185 BCE and is one of only a handful of Roman playwrights with extant work.  He was brought to Rome as a slave, but later freed.  After writing 6 know/surviving plays, Terence disappeared and was presumed dead after he embarked on a sea voyage at the age of 25.

 While modern critics often consider Plautus to be the more prestigious of the surviving Roman comedians, Terence is far more crucial to the survival & reinstatement of theatre in the west.  After the fall of Rome, the church roundly condemned the practice of theatre. Actors were declared “infamous” and denied holy sacraments, and public performances of plays were forbidden.

 However, the Church still was the primary repository of education, and the business of the Church was in Latin.  Plays are made of dialogue - and Terence’s scripts contained a wealth of conversational Latin.  Therefore, while outwardly condemning theatre as pagan immorality, the Church used the plays of Terence in the convents and monasteries as a teaching tool.  In 10th century Germany, a nun named Hrostwitha of Gandersheim used Terence’s plays as a model to create her own original works, some of the earliest documented European plays after the Council of Elvira in the 4th century.

 There are multiple manuscripts (somewhere around 650 known!) of Terence’s plays from the middle ages, often beautifully illustrated.  While they typically show the characters in contemporary dress, the Vatican Terence ( Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3868, circa 9th c.) is illustrated in an archaic style and shows Roman fashions.  It is fully digitized & available online:   https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3868

[theemotionmachine]

I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.

Publius Terentius Afer

[crunchynoodle]

“Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

Translated: “I am human, I consider nothing that is human alien to me."

Attributed to Terence, (Publius Terentius Afer) , freed slave of Senator Terentius Lucanus

"I would never-"

You would if you were tired enough. You would if you were hungry enough. You would if your mind and body had been worn down enough, through pain or disease or toil or violent struggle. You might if you were put on the wrong medicine, or you got the wrong kind of head injury, or you were forced to choose between someone else and yourself. You might if your livelihood was staked on it, or all your hopes and dreams. You might if you didn't know what else to do, if it's what you were taught or if nobody taught you anything else.

I have not been worn down in most of these ways. I have lived a remarkably privileged life. But I have been worn down in some ways. And they were enough to teach me that in the wrong circumstances, any of us can become someone we don't want to be. It's worth keeping that in mind.

[walruna]

Nullum est jam dictum, quod non dictum sit prius

It's impossible to say something that hasn't already been said

- Publius Terentius Afer

[jedentageinzitat]

Nichts ist so leicht, dass es nicht schwer wird, wenn du es wider Willen tust.

Publius Terentius Afer

[tityre-tu-scurra]

So apparently Terentius was allowed to get his education even as a slay and then got freed by his owner Terentius Lucanus because he was smart and pretty. That's literally what his biography tells us. That he was pretty.

[scelestic-reveries]

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

Okay so that was a whole stuff around getting it uploaded to tumblr, they have removed uploading audio files for now and only way I could get it to link was to log on outside of the app, create a post to make a work around. It's not ideal, but it should download an mp3 file that will play within the app.

Thank you for sending in your quote even if you didn't make it easy with the latin and I hope it plays as it is meant to. Tumblr just never makes it easy.

[lyamsworld]

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Publius Terentius Afer

[cartermagazine]

“Humo sum, humani nihil a me alienum Pluto.” - Publius Terentius Afer, 170BC Translate: “I am a man, nothing human is alien to me.” Words from an enslaved man turned famous playwright. “We are all human; therefore l, nothing human can be alien to me.” - Maya Angelou https://www.instagram.com/p/CCdu1_DAira/?igshid=1anky3b8selyj

[scelestic-reveries]

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

[artfortheages]

Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head Fell carelessly behind.

Publius Terentius Afer

[d-i-x-i-t]

I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.

Publius Terentius Afer