Excerpt from The Hauton Timorumenos of Terence: With Introduction and Notes 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 Pompeyz. On the other hand, the lower classes preferred the coarser and more tangible pleasures of the race-course, the prize - ring, and the arena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.