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[153]: _Mer._ 825 ff., _Rud._ 593 ff.

[154]: _Mosl._ 85 ff.

[155]: _Ps._ 1246 ff.

[156]: _St._ 683 to end.

[157]: _Ps._ 133 ff. For further pa.s.sages of the episodical type, cf.

_Bac._ 925 ff. (v. supra under "bombast," I. A. 1), _Poen._ 449 ff., _Rud._ 906 ff., _Trin._ 820 ff. (v. supra under "burlesque," I. A. 3).

[158]: Cf. further _Amph._ 463, 998, _Bac._ 1072, _Cap._ 69 ff., _Cas._ 879, _Cis._ 146, 678, _Men._ 880, _Mer._ 313, _Mil._ 862, _Most._ 280, 354, 708 ff., _Poen._ 921 f., _Ps._ 124, _St._ 224,446, 674 ff., _Truc._ 109 ff., 463 ff., 965 ff. Cf. infra II. B. 5.

[159]: In Donat. ed. Wessner.

[160]: V. _As., Bac., Cap., Cis., Cur., Ep., Men., Mer., Most., Per., Rod., St._ Cf. _Cas._ 1013 ff., _Poen._ 1370 f.

[161]: V. _Bac._ 235-367, _Cap._ 835-99, _Cis._ 203 ff., 540-630, 705 ff., _Cur._ 251-73 and pa.s.sim (this play is full of bandying of quips), _Ep._ 1 ff., _Men._ 137-81, 602-67, _Mer._ 474 ff., 708 ff., 866 ff., _Most._ 633 ff., 717 ff., 885 ff., _Per._ 1 ff., 201 ff., _Poen._ 210 ff., _Ps._ 653 ff.

and pa.s.sim, _Rud._ 485 ff. (the jokes here are unusually good), 780 ff., _St._ 579 ff., _Trin._ 39 ff., 843 ff., _Truc._ 95 ff.

[162]: Cf. Sosia im _Amph._ (esp. 659 ff.), Liba.n.u.s in _As._ 1 ff., Palinurus in _Cur._, Acanthio in _Mer._ (esp. 137 ff.), Milphio in _Poen._, Sceparnio in _Rud._ (esp. 104 ff.) and Trachalio, Pinacium in _St._ (esp. 331 ff.), Stasimus in _Trin._

[163]: _St._ 446 ff., Prol. _Cas._ 67 ff. For an exhaustive discussion of the 'truth to life' of the characters, v. LeGrand, _Daos_, Part I, Chap. V.

[164]: V. esp. 96 ff.

[165]: 603 ff.

[166]: Pyrgopolinices in _Mil._, Therapontigonus in _Cur._, the _miles_ in _Ep._, Anthemonides in _Poen._ Stratophanes in _Truc_, is not so violent.

[167]: Cappadox in _Cur._, Dordalus in _Per._, Lycus in _Poen._, Labrax in _Rud._ Similarly the _lenae_.

[168]: Introd. to ed. of _Ps._

[169]: 355. Cf. 360 ff., 974 ff.

[170]: _Hist. de la lit. lat._ Bk. II, Ch. III., Sec. 4. p. 307.

[171]: _Plaut. Stud._, p. 105.

[172]: _Daos_, pp. 557 f. Cf. 218 f.

[173]: Introd. to _Ps._ Cf. _Daos_, p. 452 ff.

[174]: E.g., _Amph._ 957, _Bac._ 844, _Cas._ 308, _Men._ 898, _Mil._ 1137, 1188, _Per._ 301, 543, _Poen._ 576, _Rud._ 1209, _St._ 400-1, _Trin._ 482.

[175]: Part II, Sec. I. B. 2.

[176]: P. 157.

[177]: Cf. _Daos_, p. 60.

[178]: Cf. in general the conclusions of LeGrand, _Daos_, p. 550, and his admirable a.n.a.lysis (Part II) of "La structure des comedies." He has recognized the existence of a number of the characteristics treated above, but his discussion is in different vein and with a different object in view.

[179]: _Cap._ 489, _Cur._ 483.

[180]: _Cur._ 269, et al.

[181]: _Mil._ 991.

[182]: _Ps._ 416, et al.

[183]: _Ps._ 1232.

[184]: _Ps._ 748. For a fairly complete collection, v. LeGrand, _Daos_, p. 44 ff. Cf. Middleton and Mills, _Students' Companion to Latin Authors_, p. 20 ff.

[185]: Cf. West in A.J.P. VIII. 15. Cf. note 1, Part II, supra.

[186]: Cf. _Amph._ 861 ff., _As._ 174 f., _Cap._ 778, _Cur._ 464, _Her._ 160, _Poen._ 1224.

[187]: Cf. _Daos_, Part I, Chap. III: Les personnages, and p. 303 ff.; Mommsen, _Hist._ pp. 141 ff.

[188]: Prol, 53 ff.

[189]: For a discussion of the relation of Plautus to his originals, v.

Schuster, _Quomodo Plautus Attica exemplaria transtulerit_; LeGrand, _Daos_, pa.s.sim; Ostermayer, _de hist. fab. in com. Pl._; Ritschl, _Par._ 271, etc. The efforts to distinguish Plautus from his models have so far been fragmentary and abortive and will not advance appreciably until a complete play that he adapted has been found. At any rate, the discussion has no real bearing on our subject, since we can consider only the plays as actually transmitted; their sources cannot affect our argument. The comparisons in _Daos_ seem to indicate that Plautus did not debase his originals so much as Mommsen, Korting, Schlegel and others had thought. Even in 1881, Kiessling (_a.n.a.l. Plaut._ II.

9) boldly expresses the opinion: "Atque omnino Plautus multo pressius Atticorum exemplarium vestigia secutus est quam hodie vulgo arbitrantur".

Cf. Kellogg in PAPA. XLIV (1913).

[190]: Euanthius, _de Com._ IV. 4.

[191]: For an interesting comparison of Plautus and Terence, v. Spengel, _uber die lateinische Komodie_, (Munich 1878).

[192]: The importance of the music is indicated by the transmission of the composer's name in all extant _didascaliae_, esp. those of Terence.

V. Klotz, _Altrom. Met._ p. 384 ff.