It appears that it was otherwise from the poet Terence, in the prologue to his Andria, when he writes, ‘Favor us, attend with a fair mind, and learn what’s going on here, so that you can see what hope is left: whether the new comedies which he writes are to be seen or driven off.’ He also says in the prologue of The Eunuch, ‘Therefore it is fair for you to recognize and pardon it if new poets do the things which the ancients did.
Nam id secus esse patet ex Terentio poeta, in Andriae comoediae prologo, cum ait: “Favete, adeste aequo animo et rem cognoscite, Ut pernoscatis ecquid spei sit reliquum, Posthac quas faciet de integro comoedias, Spectandae an exigendae sint vobis prius”.