Plautus' Metrical Characterization |
Common terms and phrases
Adulescens aequom Alcumena amabo Amphitruo anapaests ancilla anger atque audience Aulularia bacchiacs Bacchides begins Captivi Casina catalectic choriambs comic comic interpretation complaint contrast cretics decet dialogue dignitas Duckworth early plays edepol effect Ennius Eunomia evident exaggeration example female characters gladium gravitas habet haec hercle heroic hodie hunc iambic octonarii iambs instances interpretation intrusion intus istuc lament Leaena Lindsay lines lubet lyric Lysidamus Matrona Megadorus meis Menaechmi Mercury meter metrical mihi mocking modo monologue mood Nature of Roman neque nisi nunc omnis opsecro Pacuvius Pardalisca passage percent percentage Persa Phaedromus Plautine Plautus Pseudolus quae quam quia quid quidem quod quom Ribbeck Roman Comedy scene Sedgwick Selenium Senex septenarius sermo gravis servi Servus soror Sosia Stichus strong emotion sunt Tetram tibi tone tragedy trochaic trochees Turpilius Tyndarus unemotional uxorem vitam volo