Terence, Roman comic poet, born at Carthage; brought thence as a slave; educated by his master, a Roman senator, and set free; composed plays, adaptations of others in Greek by Menander and Apollodorus; they depict Greek manners for Roman imitation in a pure and perfect Latin style, and with great dramatic skill (185‒159 B.C.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Terceira * Tereus