| 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. |
| Plautus wrote for the masses, crafting simple plots populated by lively characters and full of exuberant energy. |
| On the afternoon of the same Sunday she returned to the antechapel and witnessed a play of Plautus. |
| 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. |
| In this way, for example, the canons of Salisbury quickly acquired their copies of Cicero and Plautus. |
