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Acted at the Roman Sports,
L. Postumius Albinus, and L. Cornelius Merula, Curule Ædiles: Principal Actors L. Ambivius Turpio and L. Attilius Prænestinus: The Musick, composed for Unequal Flutes, by Flaccus, Freedman to Claudius: Taken entirely from the Epidicazomenos of Apollodorus: Acted four times, C. Fannius, and M. Valerius, Consuls.
Year of Rome 592Before Christ 159
Donatus says “At the Megalesian Games:” but he is certainly wrong. For this Comedy was played after the Eunuch had been brought on the stage, though in the very same year; it could not consequently be at the same festival on which the Eunuch was played, but some succeeding one. The Megalesian Games happened in April, and the Roman Sports in the month of September. Dacier.
Facta Quarto. The words quarto and quartùm have afforded matter of much dispute. When Pompey was just about to consecrate the Temple of Victory, a difficulty arose how he should express his third Consulship? whether it ought to be Consul tertio, or Consul tertium? The learned men of Rome were divided in their opinions about it, and even Cicero left the question undecided; for in order to satisfy all parties, he directed it should be thus abbreviated, Consul tert. Facta quarto here can mean nothing else but that the Phormio was acted four times in one year, to distinguish its merit; and not, as Donatus interprets, that it was Terence's fourth play in order of Composition. Dacier.
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