Plautus

[ US /ˈpɫaʊtəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a genus of Alcidae
  2. comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC)
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How To Use Plautus In A Sentence

  • Whether in fact these scenes are the most strongly contrasted in Plautus we do not know without comprehensive examination of all his septenarii.
  • I seem to recall seeing apage! used this way in Plautus as well, but I can't recall where. Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
  • [53] The prologue to the Poenulus of Plautus (verse 49) which mentions 'limites' and a 'finitor', may well be as old as Plautus himself. Ancient Town-Planning
  • Whilst they give their wives too much liberty to gad abroad, and bountiful allowance, they are accessory to their own miseries; animae uxorum pessime olent, as Plautus jibes, they have deformed souls, and by their painting and colours procure odium mariti, their husband's hate, especially, — [6280] cum misere viscantur labra mariti. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • (Livy xxxix, 9-17), and the comedies of Plautus and Terence, in which the pandar and the harlot are familiar characters. Satyricon
  • Acci fuit, ut his consulibus xl. annos natus Ennius fuerit: cui si aequalis fuerit Livius, minor fuit aliquanto is, qui primus fabulam dedit, quam ei, qui multas docuerant ante hos consules, et Plautus et The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Once at least he seems to have confused the date of an author's _floruit_ and that of his death, making Plautus die in B.C. 200 instead of B.C. 184 (p. 8). The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • In this way, for example, the canons of Salisbury quickly acquired their copies of Cicero and Plautus.
  • Maître Charmolue drew forth an appalling document, and commenced reading with much gesticulation and the exaggerated emphasis of the Bar a Latin oration, in which all the evidences of the trial were set out in Ciceronian periphrases, flanked by citations from Plautus. III. End of the Crown Piece Changed into a Withered Leaf. Book VIII
  • Whilst they give their wives too much liberty to gad abroad, and bountiful allowance, they are accessory to their own miseries; animae uxorum pessime olent, as Plautus jibes, they have deformed souls, and by their painting and colours procure odium mariti, their husband's hate, especially, — [6280] cum misere viscantur labra mariti. Anatomy of Melancholy
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