Heauton Timorumenos

The Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) is a comedy in Latin by Publius Terentius Afer, a dramatist of the Roman Republic. It was first performed in 163 BC, according to the consular chronology, and is the third of Terence's six surviving comedies according to the didascaliae. Some scholars, such as L. Gestri and R. Blum, have argued from the prologues that it should occupy fifth place. The play is based on a Greek comedy of the same name by Menander, of which only fragments survive, so it is hard to tell how much of Terence's version is translation and how much invention. In the prologue Terence says he has made the plot of the original