P. TERENTI

СОМОEDIAE

WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL
AN INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX

BY

WILHELM WAGNER PH.D.
EDITOR OF THE AULULARIA OF PLAUTUS.
AULULARIA

CAMBRIDGE:
DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.
LONDON: BELL AND DALDY.

1869.

PREFACE.

THE present edition of Terence has been my almost constant occupation during the last two years; I have worked at it in England, Germany, and Wales, at the various places where I have resided during this time, sometimes with all my books at my command, at others reduced to such few as I could conveniently carry about with me on my travels. Among the works which I have been in the habit of consulting throughout, I will here mention Bentley's edition of Terence in Vollbehr's reprint (Kiel, 1846), the Variorum edition published by A. Wolfgang and I. Hacke, Amsterdam 1686, which forms the groundwork of the more elaborate, but uncritical collections and commentaries in Westerhovius' editions, the larger published in two volumes in 4to. Hagae Comitum 1726, and the smaller ib. 1733: in writing my notes I have always had before me Stallbaum's reprint of the smaller edition, in six volumes, Leipzig 1830 and 1831. In order to obtain an acquaintance with modern English works on the

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