In Athens, old Simo wants his son Pamphilus to marry the daughter of his neighbour Chremes, but Pamphilus loves Glycerium, a girl from Andros who is about to bear his child. The slave Davus spins schemes to save the affair, until a stranger’s revelation untangles everything. This 1820 prose translation adds Suetonius’s life of Terence.
The first comedy of Rome’s most elegant playwright, a model for centuries of European stage comedy. Download the free EPUB.