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Adnotativncvlae Plavtinae1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. M. Lindsay
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Amph. prol. 90–91. In the Amphitruo Plautus runs great risk of giving oflence by bringing Jupiter on the stage. In the prologue (spoken by Mercury) he conciliates the audience by saying that this Jupiter is no god but a mere actor. (‘Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am a lion fell’):

26 sqq. Etenim ille quoi(u)s hue iussu uenio Iuppiter

Non minu' quam uostrum quiuis formidat malum: (i.e. a flogging, the penalty for bad acting, Cist. 785)

Humana matre natus, humano patre,

Mirari non est aequom sibi si praetimet.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1920 , pp. 49 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1920

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1 Since many inquiries have been made, it is well to take this opportunity of recanting the profession in the preface to my large edition of the Captiui: ‘I hope in time to edit other plays of this author.’ If the palaeography of the Truculentus yields its secrets to investigation, the edition of this play may be attempted. But probably of no other.