In the whole repertory of the Plautine and post-Plautine comedy, there is not, so far as we know, matter for a single action of damages.

In the whole repertory of the Plautine and post-Plautine comedy, there is not, so far as we know, matter for a single action of damages.

The -litteratores- of the following century reckoned up as many as 130 such "Plautine pieces"; but of these a large portion at any rate were merely revised by Plautus or had no connection with him at all; the best of them are still extant.

p. 285); but, as not only the authors of the Plautine prologues, but Plautus himself on various occasions, make allusions to a sitting audience (Mil.

The verse is blank, diversified by a single sonnet, but the piece is again a hybrid of an earlier typea love-knot solved by the discovery of consanguinitywith certain elements of Plautine comedy added.

Were it not for these points of similarity, I should have supposed Gosse to have been misled by the pastoral-sounding title of Randolph's Plautine comedy into confusing it with the Amyntas.