On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Plautus. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as dramatist or playwright and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Plautus in a sentence
Plautus meaning
A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
Synonyms of Plautus
Using Plautus
- The main meaning on this page is: A Roman comic playwright (c. 254 – 184 BC) of the Old Latin period.
- Useful related words include: titus maccius plautus, dramatist, playwright, genus plautus.
- In the example corpus, plautus often appears in combinations such as: of plautus, that plautus, in plautus.
Context around Plautus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plautus
- In this selection, "plautus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, maccius, originality, borrowed, writes and audience stand out and add context to how "plautus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include argues that plautus took the and based on plautus roman comedies. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plautus" sits close to words such as accumulates, admiralty and adventurers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plautus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Biography Not much is known about Titus Maccius Plautus' early life. (11 words)
Cole focuses on Plautus’ influence on the particular Pageant of Naaman. (11 words)
Plautus and Shakespeare Shakespeare borrowed from Plautus as Plautus borrowed from his Greek models. (14 words)
For instance, in the works of Athenaeus, Alciphron, and Lucian there are deceptions that involve the aid of a slave, and in Menander’s Dis Exapaton there was an elaborate deception executed by a clever slave that Plautus mirrors in his Bacchides. (42 words)
All of these characters have the same goal, to be with a younger woman, but all go about it in different ways, as Plautus could not be too redundant with his characters despite their already obvious similarities. (37 words)
Cato the Elder Considerably more is known about early Latin comedy, as 26 Early Latin comedies are extant – 20 of which Plautus wrote, and the remaining six of which Terence wrote. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Plautus and Shakespeare Shakespeare borrowed from Plautus as Plautus borrowed from his Greek models.
Despite this, the manuscript tradition of Plautus is poorer than that of any other ancient dramatist, something not helped by the failure of scholia on Plautus to survive.
One argument states that Plautus writes with originality and creativity—the other, that Plautus is a copycat of Greek New Comedy and that he makes no original contribution to playwriting.
Understanding of Greek by Plautus’ audience Of the approximate 270 proper names in the surviving plays of Plautus, about 250 names are Greek.
According to C. Stace, "slaves in Plautus account for almost twice as much monologue as any other character..
After West Side Story opened, Shevelove lamented the lack of "low-brow comedy" on Broadway and mentioned a possible musical based on Plautus' Roman comedies.
All of these characters have the same goal, to be with a younger woman, but all go about it in different ways, as Plautus could not be too redundant with his characters despite their already obvious similarities.
Also, Shakespeare uses the same kind of opening monologue so common in Plautus’s plays.
Although there are these discrepancies, Packman tries to give a pattern to the female role designations of Plautus.
Anderson 1995, p. 178. Anderson’s vehement reaction to the co-opting of Greek plays by Plautus seems to suggest that they are in no way like their originals were.
Anderson says that, “Plautus homogenizes all the plays as vehicles for his special exploitation.
Another difference between the audiences of Shakespeare and Plautus is that Shakespeare’s audience was Christian.
Biography Not much is known about Titus Maccius Plautus' early life.
But in Plautus’ Stichus the two young women are referred to as sorores, later mulieres, and then matronae, all of which have different meanings and connotations.
Cato the Elder Considerably more is known about early Latin comedy, as 26 Early Latin comedies are extant – 20 of which Plautus wrote, and the remaining six of which Terence wrote.
Cole focuses on Plautus’ influence on the particular Pageant of Naaman.
C. Stace argues that Plautus took the stock slave character from New Comedy in Greece and altered it for his own purposes.
Disputed originality Plautus was known for the use of Greek style in his plays, as part of the tradition of the variation on a theme.
For instance, in the works of Athenaeus, Alciphron, and Lucian there are deceptions that involve the aid of a slave, and in Menander’s Dis Exapaton there was an elaborate deception executed by a clever slave that Plautus mirrors in his Bacchides.
Further interwoven into the plays of Plautus and just as common as the use of proverbs is the use of Greek within the texts of the plays.
Common combinations with plautus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of plautus 18×
- that plautus 11×
- in plautus 10×
- plautus and 7×
- plautus is 6×
- and plautus 5×
- plautus was 5×
- by plautus 3×
- which plautus 3×
- plautus wrote 3×