person
Chremes (in Terence)
Chremes
also: Chremes, Terentianus ille Chremes, the Chremes of Terence
The old man in Terence's Heauton Timorumenos who speaks the famous line that nothing human is foreign to him. Cicero cites him for the maxim while qualifying our concern for others' affairs.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §1.3 the Chremes of Terence
Chremes is the meddlesome old neighbor in Terence's comedy Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor). His famous line about not wanting the newcomer to overwork himself is quoted as a model of busybody concern.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.65 the \textit{[Greek: heauton timoroumenos]}
The title (Greek for 'the self-tormentor') of a comedy by Terence; the line quoted is spoken by the old man Menedemus, who resolves to make himself wretched as punishment. Cicero uses it to show that grief is a matter of deliberate will.