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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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Plautus scattered songs through his plays and increased the humor with puns and wisecracks, plus comic actions by the actors.
Plautus wrote for the masses, crafting simple plots populated by lively characters and full of exuberant energy.
What if Plautus, in the account of Hercules, mistaketh nativity for conception?
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.
And must not the vigor, from what we have seen, have been intensified in Plautus?

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