There are vicissitudes in all things.

Omnium rerum, heus, vicissitudo est.

Terence

The Eunuch

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Topic

Randomness

Speaker

Parmeno

Author

Terence

Source

The Eunuch

Medium

Play

Language

Latin

Time

161 BC 160s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Africa Roman Republic

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Citation

Terence. Eunuchus [The Eunuch]. 161 BC, Megalesian Games, Rome, Italy, act 2, sc. 2.

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Baruch Spinoza
Source
Ethics
Medium
Treatise
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Current Citation

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