Plautus
Plau'tns, [Fr. Plaute, plot ; It. Plauto, plow'to,]
(Marcus Acciusor Attius,) the most celebrated of the
Roman comic poets, was a native of Sarsina, in Umbria.
It is supposed that he was born about 254, or, as some
say, in 224 B.C. In his youth he served a baker by
grinding corn with a hand-mill. Little is known of his
history. According to Cicero,...
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Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BC), commonly known as
Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His
comedies are among the earliest surviving intact works in
Latin literature. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre
devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius
Andronicus. The word Plautine (pronounced /ˈplɔːtaɪn/) is us...
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Plautus, T. Maccius
The most celebrated comic poet of Rome. He was a native of Sarsina, a small village in Umbria. He used to be called M. Accius Plautus,
but his real name, as Ritschl has shown, was T. Maccius Plautus. The date of his birth is uncertain, but it may be placed about B.C.
254. He probably came to Rome at an early age, since he dis...
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