Terence's Andrian, a comedy, in five acts

Chapter 51: Transcriber’s Note:

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A young Athenian’s attachment to a woman of foreign origin provokes his father’s opposition and sets off a chain of schemes by servants and friends. Through a series of comic misunderstandings, hidden relationships, and fabricated tests, characters maneuver to delay, disguise, and ultimately expose true identities and intentions. Drawing on Greek New Comedy conventions, the play emphasizes family authority, the cleverness of dependents, and the social and legal obstacles to marriage, resolving its tensions by means of revelation and reconciliation that restore social order and permit the desired union.

Transcriber’s Note:

Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged.

Note 108 has two footnotes that were lettered sequentially and were moved to the end of the Note. Missing anchor was added to Note 50. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, reverse order, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed. Punctuation and accent marks were normalized.

The following items were changed:

“his” to “this”
“praisng” changed to “praising”
“thing” added to text where not legible in the original, Note 114