Terence, The Brothers

I. Lingua Latina

• Salvete, Salve
• Quid agitis?, Quid agis? optime, bene, satis bene, male
• Romam a principio reges habuerunt (Tacitus)
• vae victis (Livy)
• Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque (Ennius)
• Carthago delenda est (Cato the Elder)
• prandi, potavi, scortum accubui (Plautus)
• Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (Terence)

REMAINING FROM PREVIOUS DAYS:

• The Middle Republic
• Plautus

II. Terence, The Brothers

A. The playwright: Publius Terentius Afer, c. 190-159 BCE

B. The play

• How is this play like and unlike Plautus' Double Bind?
• Demea and Micio have opposite views about education. Who do you think is right? Who would a Roman of Terence's day think is right?

III. Slavery at Rome