Note 14 — Chapter IV · TERENCE AND HIS SUCCESSORS
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Leo, Gesch. Lit., 218, assumes that Caecilius had used the prologue for personal criticism; Euanthius III. 2 says deos argumentis narrandis machinatos ceteri Latini ad instar Graecorum habent, Terentius non habet, which of course does not exclude an occasional use of the personal prologue. After Terence, Afranius sometimes employs superhuman prologues (Priapus, Sapientia, and Remeligo), but he seems also to have used the prologue for personal statements in the manner of Terence (lines 25-8).