Definitions for "Terence"
dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC)
Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was a comic playwright of the Roman Republic. His date of birth is disputed; Aelius Donatus, in his incomplete Commentum Terenti, considers the year 185 BC to be the year Terentius was bornAeli Donati Commentum Terenti, accedunt Eugraphi Commentum et Scholia Bembina, ed. P. Wessner, 3 Volumes, Leipzig, 1902, 1905, 1908; Fenestella, on the other hand, states that he was born ten years earlier, in 195 BC.Sulla vita suetoniana di Terenzio, G.