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Publius Terentius Afer, better known as Terence, was an African Roman playwright during the Roman Republic.His comedies were performed for the first time around 166-160 BC.Terence was born in or near Carthage or in Greek Italy to a woman taken to Carthage as a slave.His cognomen Afer suggests he lived in the territory of the Libyan tribe called by the Romans Afri near Carthage prior to being ...