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Plautus, engraving
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Author

Plautus

c. 254–184 BC · Comic playwright

The most popular playwright of Republican Rome, who turned Greek comedies into riotous Latin: clever slaves, braggart soldiers and twins mistaken for each other.

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20 works

Twenty comedies, in Latin beside English, speech by speech.

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