| Plautus scattered songs through his plays and increased the humor with puns and wisecracks, plus comic actions by the actors. |
| Plautus calls an entertainment free from these despicable guests, hospitium sine muscis. |
| Plautus sometimes turned scenes of iambic dialogue in his Greek originals into musical scenes composed in various metres. |
| And must not the vigor, from what we have seen, have been intensified in Plautus? |
| Plautus wrote for the masses, crafting simple plots populated by lively characters and full of exuberant energy. |
| Plautus adapted his plots from Greek comedy, but infused them with Roman references. |
