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What does Plautus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
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In this way, for example, the canons of Salisbury quickly acquired their copies of Cicero and Plautus.
Plautus scattered songs through his plays and increased the humor with puns and wisecracks, plus comic actions by the actors.
Some of them probably heard the jests at the expense of their dialectal peculiarities which Plautus introduced into his comedies.
On the afternoon of the same Sunday she returned to the antechapel and witnessed a play of Plautus.
Plautus adapted his plots from Greek comedy, but infused them with Roman references.
Plautus sometimes turned scenes of iambic dialogue in his Greek originals into musical scenes composed in various metres.

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