Six comedies by a freed slave born in Africa, staged in Rome between 166 and 160 BC. His Latin was taught in schools for two thousand years, and “I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me” is his.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Comedies that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Henry Thomas Riley, 1853. Source: Gutenberg 22188.
The text here is Henry Thomas Riley’s prose translation, Bohn’s Classical Library, 1853, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 22188. His notes are not printed; the words he supplied stand in braces, as he printed them.
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