claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the Roman people. But the gossip, not discouraged by Terence, lived and throve; it crops up in Cicero and Quintilian, and the ascription of the plays to Scipio had the honour to be accepted by Montaigne and rejected by Diderot. See also Translation Metres of Roman comedy Codex Vaticanus 3868 List of slaves Roman Africans Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi Trochaic septenarius References Further reading Augoustakis, A. and Ariana Traill eds. (2013). A Companion to Terence. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden/Oxford/Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Boyle, A. J., ed. (2004). Special Issue: Rethinking Terence. Ramus 33:1–2. Büchner, K. (1974). Das Theater des Terenz. Heidelberg: C. Winter. Davis, J. E. (2014). Terence Interrupted: Literary Biography and the Reception of the Terentian Canon. American Journal of Philology 135(3), 387–409. Forehand, W. E. (1985). Terence. Boston: Twayne. Goldberg, S. M. (1986). Understanding Terence. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Karakasis, E. (2005). Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Papaioannou, S., ed. (2014). Terence and Interpretation. Pierides, 4. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pezzini, G. (2015). Terence and the Verb ‘To Be’ in Latin. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. Sharrock, A. (2009). Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence. W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. External links The six plays of Terence at The Latin Library (in Latin). At Perseus Digital Library: Andria. Hecyra. Heautontimorumenos. The Eunuch. Phormio. The Brothers. 15th-century scripts from Hecyra and Eunuchus, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries. Lewis E 196 Comediae at OPenn Terence's works: text, concordances and frequency list (in Latin). Donatus: Commentum Terenti, vol 1. Leipzig 1902. The Life of Terence, part of Suetonius's De Viris Illustribus, translated by John C. Rolfe. P. Terenti comoediae cum scholi Aeli Donati et Eugraphi commentariis, Reinhold Klotz (ed.), Lipsiae, sumptum fecit, E. B. Schwickert, 1838, vol. 1, vol. 2. SORGLL: Terence, Eunuch 232-264 , read in Latin by Matthew Dillon. Latin with Laughter: Terence through Time. 2nd-century BC Berber people 2nd-century BC births 150s BC deaths 2nd-century BC Romans 2nd-century BC Latin writers Ancient Roman comic dramatists Berber writers Old Latin-language writers Republican era slaves and freedmen Romans from Africa Terentii Deaths due to shipwreck at sea