Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
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Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
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Plautus, Titus Maccius.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and T. Child ...,
1694.
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"Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55016.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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descriptionPage 144
Scene the First.
Pag. 116. l. 6, &c. If Jove shou'd come down, he and his eleven Gods together, they cou'dn't save poor Pilgarlick from going to Pot.] Here Epidicus was really in a very sad Condition, and the Stage embarrass'd with all the Diffi∣culties that cou'd be; yet soon after, our Poet finds a way to bring all off, even when the Spectators were al∣most brought to Despair. The doing of this well, does not only shew the greatest Art of a Poet, but gives the Spectators the greatest pleasure too; and this is the most taking part of a Play, and indeed, there is nothing like Surprizes, if they be natural.
Ibid. l. 17. The two old Cullies.] Duo defloccati senes. The word, Defloccatus, signifies, Worn out, or, Bald; Epidicus call'd 'em so, because he had fleec'd 'em, and consequently, Cully is the proper Term in our Lan∣guage.
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