Plautus

[ plaw-tuhs ]

noun

1. Ti·tus Mac·ci·us [tahy, -t, uh, s , mak, -see-, uh, s], c254–c184 b.c., Roman dramatist.

Plautus

/ ˈplɔːtəs /

noun

1. PlautusTitus Maccius?254 bc?184 bcMRomanTHEATRE: dramatist Titus Maccius (ˈtaɪtəs ˈmæksɪəs). ?254–?184 bc , Roman comic dramatist. His 21 extant works, adapted from Greek plays, esp those by Menander, include Menaechmi (the basis of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors ), Miles Gloriosus, Rudens, and Captivi

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Bonnell Thornton died; an English poet, essayist and miscellaneous writer, and translator of Plautus.

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Plautus wrote one hundred and thirty plays, not always for the stage, but for the reading public.

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Plautus might be mistaken for a Greek, were it not for the painting of Roman manners, for his garb is essentially Greek.

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The great excellence of Plautus was the masterly handling of language, and the adjusting the parts for dramatic effect.

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Aristophanes gave him more pleasure than Sophocles, Plautus than Horace, whose merit he thought over-praised.

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