| Plautus sometimes turned scenes of iambic dialogue in his Greek originals into musical scenes composed in various metres. |
| Plautus adapted his plots from Greek comedy, but infused them with Roman references. |
| Plautus calls an entertainment free from these despicable guests, hospitium sine muscis. |
| Menander's plays are mainly known through the works of the Roman dramatists Plautus and Terence, who translated and adapted them, along with other stock plots and characters of Greek New Comedy, for the Roman stage. |
| Whether in fact these scenes are the most strongly contrasted in Plautus we do not know without comprehensive examination of all his septenarii. |
| In this way, for example, the canons of Salisbury quickly acquired their copies of Cicero and Plautus. |
