Terentia
Wife of M. Cicero, the orator, to whom she bore two children, a son and a daughter. She was a woman of sound sense and great resolution; and her firmness of character was of no small service to her weak and vacillating husband in some important periods of his life.
Terentius, Publius, or Terence. A native of Africa, celebrated for the comedies he wrote.
He was twenty-five years old when his first play was produced on the Roman stage. Terence is admired for the purity of his language and the elegance of his diction. He is supposed to have been drowned in a storm about B. C. 159.