Four of his six plays were adaptations of comedies by the Greek  playwright Menander, while two of them were in turn later ad
Four of his six plays were adaptations of comedies by the Greek  playwright Menander, while two of them were in turn later adapted  by Moliere. Born in Carthage and brought to Rome as a slave, he  met his untimely death while on a trip to Greece, presumably in  search of even more texts by Menander. FTP, name this comic  playwright of the second century B.C., whose works tended to be  more restrained than those of his predecessor Plautus.
Four of his six plays were adaptations of comedies by the Greek  playwright Menander, while two of them were in turn later adapted  by Moliere.