| 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. |
| In this way, for example, the canons of Salisbury quickly acquired their copies of Cicero and Plautus. |
| Plautus adapted his plots from Greek comedy, but infused them with Roman references. |
| Plautus wrote for the masses, crafting simple plots populated by lively characters and full of exuberant energy. |
| Plautus sometimes turned scenes of iambic dialogue in his Greek originals into musical scenes composed in various metres. |
| What if Plautus, in the account of Hercules, mistaketh nativity for conception? |
