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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.

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