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<Heauton Timorumenos> - Terence

       

 Terence, a first century mosaic

from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos

Publius Terentius Afer (195/185–159 BC), better known in English as Terence, was a playwrigt of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heauton_Timorumenos 

One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

"나는 인간이라네, 그리고 난 인간적인 것들 중 나와 상관없는 것은 아무 것도 없다고 생각하네."

- 테렌티우스




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