Some editions read in this line, instead of nostra amico ⁠— nostra antico , our ancient Terence; but the epithet would be more appropriate to Plautus, who was the earlier writer. ↩

Plautus, Caecilius, and Terence, the three principal Latin dramatists; Varro, “the most learned of the Romans,” the friend of Cicero, and author of some five hundred volumes, which made St. Augustine wonder how he who wrote so many books could find time to read so many; and how he who read so many could find time to write so many. ↩

Persius, the Latin satirist. ↩

Homer. ↩