Non obscura fama est adiutum Terentium in scriptis a Laelio et Scipione, eamque ipse auxit numquam nisi leviter refutare conatus, ut in prologo Adelphorum:  Nam quod isti dicunt malevoli, homines nobiles Hunc adiutare assidueque una scribere; Quod illi maledictum vehemens esse existumant, Eam laudem hic ducit maxumam, quom illis placet Qui vobis univorsis et populo placent, Quorum opera in bello, in otio, in negotio Suo quisque tempore usus est sine superbia.
It is common gossip that Scipio and Laelius aided Terence in his writings, and he himself lent colour to this by never attempting to refute it, except in a half-hearted way, as in the prologue to the Adelphoe:  For as to what those malicious critics say, that men of rank aid your poet and constantly write in concert with him; what they regard as a grievous slander, he considers the highest praise, to please those who please you all and all the people, whose timely help everyone has used without shame in war, in leisure, in business.
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