Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, in the Strand; W. JOHNSTON, in Ludgate- PREFACE. A N attempt to give a new translation of the Comedies of Terence will, I believe, scarce be thought to demand an apology. Ber nard and Hoole were obsolete even in the days of Echard; Echard and his co-adjutors, it is univerfally agreed, prefented as imperfect an image of Terence, as Hobbs of Homer, or Ogilby of Virgil; and those, who have fince employed themselves on this author, seem to have confined their labours to the humble endeavour of affifting learners of Latin in the construction of the original text. It is not, however, the intention of this Preface to recommend the present translation, such as it is, by depreciating the value of those that have gone before it; and I will fairly confefs, that of fuch of them, |