Adelphi: The Brothers


Adelphi: The Brothers
By P. Terentius Afer
Translated by: Henry Thomas Riley
Ney York Harper and Brothers 1874


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Introduction
   THE SUBJECT.
   THE TITLE OF THE PLAY.
   THE SUMMARY OF C. SULPITIUS APOLLINARIS.

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Introduction
 

Scene production

THE TITLE OF THE PLAY.

PERFORMED at the, Funeral Games of Aemilius Paulus,14 which were celebrated by Q. Fabius Maximns and P. Cornelius Africanus. L. Atilius Praenestinus and Minutius Prothimus performed it. Flaccus, the freedman of Claudius, composed the music for Sarranian flutes.15 Taken from the Greek of Menander, L. Anicius and M. Cornelius being Consuls.16