The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 14. [Lives of the Poets]

By Tranquillus, C. Suetonius

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Title:	The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 14. [Lives of the Poets]
Author:	Tranquillus, C. Suetonius
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt: Publius Terentius Afer, a native of Carthage, was a slave, at Rome, of the senator Terentius Lucanus, who, struck by his abilities and handsome person, gave him not only a liberal education in his youth, but his freedom when he arrived at years of maturity. Some say that he was a captive taken in war, but this, as Fenestella [925] informs us, could by no means have been the case, since both his birth and death took place in the interval between the termination of the second Punic war and the commencement of the third [926]; nor, even supposing that he had been taken prisoner by the Numidian or Getulian tribes, could he have fallen into the hands of a Roman general, as there was no commercial intercourse between the Italians and Africans until after the fall of Carthage [927]. Terence lived in great familiarity with many persons of high station, and especially with Scipio Africanus, and Caius Delius, whose favour he is even supposed to have purchased by the foulest means. But Fenestella reverses the charge, contending that Terence was older than either of them. Cornelius Nepos, however, (532) informs us that they were all of nearly equal age; and Porcias intimates a suspicion of this criminal commerce in the following passage.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 14. [LIVES OF THE POETS], 1 -- C. Suetonious Tranquillus, 1 -- THE LIFE OF TERENCE, 1 -- THE LIFE OF JUVENAL, 4 -- THE LIFE OF PERSIUS, 5 -- THE LIFE OF HORACE, 6 -- THE LIFE OF PLINY. [984], 8 -- FOOTNOTES:, 8