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Plautus

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Plau·tus  (plôts), Titus Maccius 254?-184 b.c.
Roman comic playwright whose works influenced Shakespeare and Molière.
Plautus [ˈplɔːtəs]
n
(Biographies / Plautus, Titus Maccius (?254 bc-?184 bc) M, Roman, THEATRE: 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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Noun1.Plautus - comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC)
Titus Maccius Plautus
2.Plautus - a genus of Alcidae
genus Plautus
bird genus - a genus of birds
Alcidae, family Alcidae - web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas: auks; puffins; guillemots; murres; etc.
dovekie, little auk, Plautus alle - small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions
Translations
Plautus [ˈplɔːtəs] n → Plauto
Plautus [ˈplɔːtəs] n → Plauto


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Meanwhile students at the universities, also, had been acting Plautus and Terence, and further, had been writing and acting Latin tragedies, as well as comedies, of their own composition.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
there were Naevius, and Andronicus, and Plautus, and Terentius.
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