<P> Publius Terentius Afer (/ təˈrɛnʃiəs, - ʃəs /; c. 195 / 185--c. 159? BC), better known in English as Terence (/ ˈtɛrəns /), was a Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent . His comedies were performed for the first time around 170--160 BC . Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him . Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome . All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived . </P> <P> One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me ." This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos . </P> <P> Terence's date of birth is disputed; Aelius Donatus, in his incomplete Commentum Terenti, considers the year 185 BC to be the year Terentius was born; Fenestella, on the other hand, states that he was born ten years earlier, in 195 BC . </P>

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