Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Author(s): W. Beare
Source: The Classical Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul., 1928), pp. 106-111
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association
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not deter us from considering the possibility that Plautus made his plays more
lyrical as his command over metre and
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Mercator.
to current events.
fun, or to both.
For a very different treatment of the
his heart
refuse !'
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So kind to everyone! he
Must presently discover
Lo !
have said.
The essential humorous element is
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saucepan.'
which is Plautus.
Labrax. Labrax, the wicked slavedealer, whose plots against the heroine
are overthrown by Plesidippus, corresponds indeed to the dragon of romance,
the dragon which is defeated and slain
by the hero. But what are we to say
of a tale of chivalry in which, when all
is over, the heroine's father invites the
dragon to lunch ?
It may be argued that the romance of
the Rudens lies rather in its setting-the
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Terence.
flight:
discipline.
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again. W. BEARE.
AL~ lKpteipl &Od'va-roq. I must apologise to the Society for serving them up
a dish with which they must be already
sated, and one from which they doubt-
the second dispraise, of Quintus. However, the Dublin editors think other-
lative terms.
honeycomb.'
The first point I wish to raise on this
or a Owplov.
am about to offer.
fera.' Cicero distinctly says so in passages, some of which have been used.
and indeed in some cases misused, in
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