Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law


Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law
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 Megalensian Games; Sextus Julius Caesar and Cneius Cornelius Dolabella being Curule Aediles. The whole was not then acted. Flaccus, the freedman of Claudius, composed the music to a pair of flutes. It was composed wholly from the Greek of Menander.11 It was performed the first time without a Prologue. Represented a second time; Cneius Octavius and T. Manlius being Consuls.12 It was then brought out in honor of L. Aemilius Paulus, at his Funeral Games, and was not approved of. It was repeated a third time; Q. Fulvius and L. Marcius being Curule Aediles. L. Ambivius Turpio performed it. It was then approved of.13