SOURCE: "Methods of Composition" in The Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment, Princeton University Press, 1952, pp. 177-208.
In the following excerpt from his highly-regarded study of Roman comedy, Duckworth explains the notion of contaminatio (imitation of earlier authors) as it applies to Terence.
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