To what extent he is dependent on these originals, and how far he departed from them, we shall perhaps never know exactly. The plays of Plautus are all based on Greek originals. Of the Vidularia we possess only the fragments contained in the Codex Ambrosianus. Marx), Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Rudens, Trinummus (later than 194 B.C. The dates of the rest of the extant plays, here given in alphabetical order, are quite uncertain, namely, Amphitruo, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator (probably later than the Rudens, as shown by F. The Pseudolus and the Truculentus fall within the last seven years of his life. and the Stichus is proved by its didascalia to have been produced in 200 B.C. Of the extant plays the Cistellaria and the Stichus must be associated with the Miles as comparatively early works for the former was clearly produced before (though not long before) the conclusion of the Second Punic War, see l. Radermacher assigns the Asinaria to a date as early as 212 B.C. On the other hand it is hardly likely that all his comedies (which greatly exceeded in number the extant twenty) were produced during the last twenty years of his life. The defects of construction and the absence of “cantica” in the Miles also point to this as one of his early plays. occubant (present tense), which alludes to the imprisonment of Naevius, an event which cannot be proved to be earlier than 206 B.C. is the approximate date of the Miles gloriosus cf. The main body of his works belongs, so far as can be ascertained from the scanty evidence which we have, to the latter half of his life 206 B.C. ad circumagendas molas quae trusatiles appellantur operam pistori locasset) and in this pistrinum he wrote three of his plays (the Saturio, the Addictus and another).
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Having lost his money he returned to Rome penniless, and was driven to support himself by manual labour in a mill ( cum. At Rome he saved a little money, and embarked on some mercantile enterprise, probably abroad. Marx as indicating that Plautus was a member of the theatrical staff of Livius Andronicus. The words of Gellius in operis artficum scaenicorum, are interpreted by F.
According to this statement he left his native town at an early age and settled at Rome, where he got employment in a theatre, though it is not clear in what capacity.
3, 14 (based on Varro), the historical character of which is doubted by Leo ( Plautinische Forschungen, p. The only record that we possess as to his life is that contained in Aulus Gellius iii. The latter play was produced in 191 B.C. 50) that he was an old man when he wrote his Truculentus and Pseudolus. The date of his birth depends upon an inference based on the statement of Cicero ( De senectute, xiv. 11), the great comic dramatist of ancient Rome, was born at Sarsina in Umbria according to the testimony of Festus, who calls him Umber Sarsinas, and Jerome. PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS (originally perhaps Maccus cf.
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