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Phormio is a Latin comic play by the early Roman playwright Terence, based on a now lost play by Apollodorus of Carystus entitled Epidikazomenos ("The...

Phormio or Phormion may refer to: (in date order) Phormio, an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War, victorious in 428 BC Phormion, a student...

his grandson Charles Francis Adams his excerpts from the Phormio, he remarked, "in these Plays of Terence ... Are not the Slaves Superior Beings to the...

mentioned by the Old Men as a good example of a hairy guy, together with Phormio, the Athenian admiral who swept the Spartans from the sea between 430 and...

'fortune favours the strong/brave', was used in Terence's 151 BC comedy play Phormio, line 203. Ovid extends the phrase at I.608 of his didactic work, Ars...

Terence with an English Translation by John Sargeaunt in Two Volumes (Phormio, The Mother-in-Law, The Brothers). Vol. 2. London and New York: William...

another two plays. Phormio: A successful Athenian admiral, he used to sleep rough on a soldier's pallet (line 347). He is mentioned in two other plays. Peisander:...

and partly from Diphilus. The original of Terence's Hecyra (as of the Phormio) is generally supposed to be, not by Menander, but Apollodorus of Carystus...

alludes to it as the sinful race from which Agoracritus sprang (line 445). Phormio: An admiral who had secured Athenian control of the sea early in the war...

with all of their generals and 430 other men killed. The Athenian admiral Phormio has two naval victories, the Naupactus and the Battle of Rhium at the mouth...

Chalcis—Chalcidians and their allies are defeated by Athens. 429 BC: Battle of Naupactus—Phormio defeats the Peloponnesian fleet. 429 BC: An outbreak of a plague kills...

scenici took up four days of the festival (Liv. xxiv. 43, 7). In 161 BC the Phormio of Terence was acted at these games. The classic work on the Ludi Romani...

Beautiful Armenia (1778) "Terence". USU.edu R. H. Martin (1959), Terence: Phormio, p. 23. These figures are taken from the database The Meters of Roman Comedy...

wrote 47 comedies and obtained the prize five times. Terence's Hecyra and Phormio were adapted from the Hekyra and Epidikazomenos of Apollodorus. Amphiareus...

in Plautine diction. From magis volo "want more". R.H. Martin, Terence: Phormio (London: Methuen, 1969). P. 86 n. 29. This list compiled from a number...

declare that the Athenians had broken the peace. The Athenian admiral, Phormio, continues the siege of Potidaea by blocking the entrance to the Gulf of...

favors the brave or Fortune favors the strong From Terence's comedy play Phormio, line 203. Also spelled fortis fortuna adiuvat. The motto of HMS Brave...

disengages from the dispute. The Roman playwright Terence's plays Eunuchus (The Eunuch) and Phormio are first performed. Envoys of Judas Maccabeus conclude...

Plautus, Psseudolus 13–14. De Melo (2007) Plautus, Mostellaria 524. Terence, Phormio, 742. Plautus, Poenulus 1089. Livy, Praefātiō 1. Gildersleeve & Lodge (1895)...

"Ecce Agnus dei". Richard Rutherford (2003). Introduction. Medea and Other Plays. By Euripides. Translated by John Davie. London: Penguin Group. p. 153....