Andria (comedy)

Andria ('The Woman from Andros' or 'The Lady of Andros') is a Roman comedy adapted by Terence from two Greek plays by Menander, the first being Samia and the other being Perinthia. It was the first play by Terence to be presented publicly, and was performed in 166 BC during the Ludi Megalenses. It became the first of Terence's plays to be performed post-antiquity, in Florence in 1476. It was adapted by Machiavelli, whose Andria was likewise the author's first venture into playwriting and was the

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"Flos ipsus."

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"Hoc tempore Obsequium amicos, Veritas odium parit."

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"Egregia forma atque aetate integra."

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"Hinc illae lacrimae."

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"Davos sum, non ."

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"Facile omnes quom valemus recta consilia aegrotis damus."

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"Verum illud verbum est, vulgo quod dici solet, Omnes sibi malle melius esse quam alteri."

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"Amantium irae amoris integratiost."

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"Faciuntne intellegendo ut nil intellegant?"

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"Scripsit comoedias sex, ex quibus primam "Andriam" cum aedilibus daret, iussus ante Caecilio​ recitare, ad cenantem cum venisset, dictus est initium quidem fabulae, quod erat contemptiore vestitu, subsellio iuxta lectulum residens legisse, post paucos vero versus invitatus ut accumberet cenasse una, dein cetera percucurrisse non sine magna Caecilii​ admiratione."

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"Sororem falso creditam meretriculae genere Andriae, Glycerium, vitiat Pamphilus gravidaque facta dat fidem uxorem sibi fore hance; namque aliam pater ei desponderat, gnatam Chremetis, atque ut amorem comperit, simulat futuras nuptias, cupiens suos quid haberet animi filius cognoscere. Davi persuasu non repugnat Pamphilus. sed ex Glycerio natum ut vidit puerulum Chremes, recusat nuptias, generum abdicat. mox filiam Glycerium insperato adgnitam hanc Pamphilo, aliam dat Charino coniugem."

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"Nicholas Udall; John Higgins, Flovvres or eloquent phrases of the Latine speach, gathered ont [sic of al the sixe comœdies of Terence] (London: imprinted by Thomas Marshe, 1581)"

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"Thomas Kyffin, Andria the first comoedie of Terence, in English (London: printed by T[homas] E[ast] for Thomas VVoodcocke, 1588)"

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", The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse (London: printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt ..., W. Johnston ..., W. Flexney ..., R. Davis ..., T. Davies ..., 1765)"

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"Henry Thomas Riley, The Comedies of Terence, and the Fables of Phædrus (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853)"

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"John Sargeaunt, Terence I: The Lady of Andros · The Self-Tormentor · The Eunuch, LCL 22 (London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1912)"

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"Heus, proxumus sum egomet mihi."

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