Quintilian praises the peroration of Priam's speech begging Achilles for the body of Hector, and Cicero gives a rhetorical analysis of the speech of the old man in the Andria of Terence, where the arrangement is especially appropriate to the character of the speaker.

[309] Alluding most likely to the "Andria" of Terence, which had been translated [thrice] before this play was acted; the first time

The old man in the Andria of Terence arranges briefly and conveniently the subjects with which he wishes his freedman to become acquainted "And thus the life and habits of my son And my designs respecting his career, And what I wish your course towards both to be, Will be quite plain to you.

Yet those same men read the Andria and the Synephebi; and are not less fond of Terence and Caecilius than of Menander.

So I propose that to-morrow we ride out towards the nearest Spanish garrisons, Andria or Barletta, and have a little fighting if possible."

It was a merry party of young gentlemen who galloped over the country at daybreak, and it so chanced that the same idea had occurred to a Spanish knight of Andria, Don Alonzo of Soto-Mayor, who wished to exercise his company of men-at-arms.

The watch was sounded, and the absence of the Albanian was also discovered, whereupon Bayard sent off in instant pursuit and Don Alonzo was overtaken within two miles of Andria, where he had dismounted to fasten the girth of his saddle which was broken.

The Spanish captain sent back an insolent answer, saying that he would not withdraw anything he had said, and that he would prove his words in mortal combat within twelve days, two miles from the walls of Andria.

(Greek, andria or andreia, "manliness.") ANDREW, gardener, at Ellangowan, to Godfrey Bertram the laird.

DA'VUS, a plain, uncouth servitor; a common name for a slave in Greek and Roman plays, as in the Andria of Terence.

The proverb is used by Terence, Andria, 1, 2, 23.

Fifty lines in Homer; Companion proofs; Schleiermacher; the prologue and first scene of Terence's comedy of Andria; two Nos. of N. Nickleby, and walked round the Common with Julia twice.

Finished the Andria and to-day began the Adelphi.

Davus in Andria is but a rough sketch of Moliere's valet, and the whole plot is so bungling in comparison.

But the latter had no thought of the pulpit, and from the time that he acted in the "Andria" of Terence, at Westminster School, his hope was all for the stage.

Plautus is not quite so regular as Terence in the scheme of his designs, or in the distribution of his acts, but he is more simple in his plot; for the fables of Terence are commonly complex, as may be seen in his Andria, which contains two amours.

FOOTNOTES: [Greek: Tolma alogistos andria philetairos enomisthae ... to de sophron tou anandrou proschaema, kai to pros apan xyneton epi pan argon to de emplaektos oxuandros moira prosetethae ...

It is worth noticing in this connexion that a German translation was projected by no less a person than Notker, and since they are coupled by him with the Andria, we may reasonably infer that in this case at least the writer's concern, if not distinctively literary, was at any rate educational.

Amorosi sospiri Amorous War Amyntas (Randolph) Amyntas (Watson) Amyot, Jacques Anacreon Ancona, Alessandro D' Andria Andromana Angeli, Nicolò degli Anglia Anne of Denmark Annunzio, Gabriele d' Anthology (Greek) Antona-Traversi, Camillo Antonius Apollo and Daphne Apologia contre l'autor del Verato Apology for Poetry Apuleius Aquilano, Serafino Arber, Edward Arcades Arcadia, Academy of the Arcadia (Sannazzaro)

[Note 7: Davus sum non Oedipus, Andria, Act I, Scene II.

The quotation, transposed by Martyr from the singular into the plural number, is from Terrence, Davus being a comic character in the comedy of Andria.]