The Havton Timorvmenos of Terence: With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The fact is that the better classes in Rome had always a misgiving that there was some thing degrading and efi'eminate in stage plays; a. Feeling which lasted till very late times, and showed itself in the disapproval felt by many respectable people at the building of the first per manent theatre in Rome by Pompey On the other hand, the lower classes preferred the coarser and more tangible pleasures of the race-course, the prize-ring, and the arena.

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