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Andria (Terence)
the Andria
also: Andria, Andriam
Terence's comedy The Woman of Andros (166 BC), adapted from Menander. Cicero names it among the Greek-derived Latin plays Romans read without complaint, to rebut the disdain for his translated Greek speeches.
Reading notes
- On the Best Kind of Orators §18 Andria
Latin comedies and tragedies adapted from the Greek: the Andria of Terence (from Menander), the Synephebi of Caecilius Statius (from Menander), and the tragedies Andromacha, Antiope, and Epigoni (Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius). Cicero's point: Romans read these Latin versions gladly, so why disdain his translated speeches?
- Laelius, On Friendship §89 what my friend says in the \textit{Andria}
Terence's comedy the Andria (166 BC); the quoted line, “Compliance breeds friends, candor breeds hatred” (obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit), is spoken by the slave Sosia. Laelius calls Terence “my friend.”