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... Thais and others of her class ! A close study of Terence will enable any reader to amplify these remarks to any extent , and to verify for himself what I can here state only briefly , that both in the grouping and in the treat- ment of ...
... Thais and others of her class ! A close study of Terence will enable any reader to amplify these remarks to any extent , and to verify for himself what I can here state only briefly , that both in the grouping and in the treat- ment of ...
Page 80
... parasitus . LACHES senex . PARMENO servus . PHAEDRIA adolescens . PYTHIAS ancilla . SANGA lixa . SOPHRONA nutrix . THAIS meretrix . THRASO miles . INTRODUCTION . PAMPHILA and Chremes were the children of an FABULAE INTERLOCUTORES. ...
... parasitus . LACHES senex . PARMENO servus . PHAEDRIA adolescens . PYTHIAS ancilla . SANGA lixa . SOPHRONA nutrix . THAIS meretrix . THRASO miles . INTRODUCTION . PAMPHILA and Chremes were the children of an FABULAE INTERLOCUTORES. ...
Page 81
... Thais as her younger sister . When Thais grew up she re- moved to Athens with a lover of hers , who at his death left her all his property . She then kept company with a soldier named Thraso , who went to Caria after living with her a ...
... Thais as her younger sister . When Thais grew up she re- moved to Athens with a lover of hers , who at his death left her all his property . She then kept company with a soldier named Thraso , who went to Caria after living with her a ...
Page 82
... Thais ' maid , pays off old scores by driving Parmeno to divulge the whole matter to Laches , father of Chaerea and Phaedria . The result is of course a happy explanation on all sides . Thais is taken under Laches ' protection , and ...
... Thais ' maid , pays off old scores by driving Parmeno to divulge the whole matter to Laches , father of Chaerea and Phaedria . The result is of course a happy explanation on all sides . Thais is taken under Laches ' protection , and ...
Page 87
... Thais ' conduct . She is on and off with him , hot and cold ; shuts him out and then sends for him . He will not bear it , and yet he 5 Parmeno mo- cannot be away from her . ralizes excellently on the chances of love , and the certainty ...
... Thais ' conduct . She is on and off with him , hot and cold ; shuts him out and then sends for him . He will not bear it , and yet he 5 Parmeno mo- cannot be away from her . ralizes excellently on the chances of love , and the certainty ...
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Page 76 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
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