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Terence only meant to say, that he had doubled the characters; instead of one old man, one young gallant, one mistress, as in Menander, he had two old men etc. He therefore adds very properly: novam esse ostendi, which certainly could not have been implied, had the characters been the same in the Greek poet.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Hamburgische Dramaturgie