Heautontimorumenos: The Self-Tormenter


Heautontimorumenos: The Self-Tormenter
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.

IT is from the Greek of Menander. Performed at the Megalensian Games; Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Valerius Flaccus being Curule Aediles. Ambivius Turpio performed it. Flaccus, the freedman of Claudius, composed the music. The first time it was performed to the music of treble and bass flutes; the second time, of two treble flutes. It was acted three times; Marcus Juventius and Titus Sempronius being Consuls.11
HEAUTONTIMORUMENOS;

THE SELF-TORMENTOR.