"Plautus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of classical authors, many of which are of Aldine and Elzevir editions. Among the rarities in this department is a folio copy of Plautus, printed at Venice in 1518, ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... language.... If Jove would speak, etc. Cp. Ben Jonson's Discoveries: "that testimony given by L. Aelius Stilo upon Plautus who affirmed, "Musas si latine loqui voluissent Plautino sermone fuisse loquuturas". And Cicero [in Plutarch, Sec. 24] "said of the Dialogues of Plato, that Jupiter, if it were his nature to use ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... the coarse humour of Plautus; and Horace, in his turn, has been blamed for the free use he made of the ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... the bitter cold pinched his finger ends as if they had been caught in a door. The weight of the books pleased him for there was much good letters there—a book of Tully's epistles for himself and two volumes of Plautus' comedies for the Lady Mary. But what among his day's purchases pleased him most was a medallion in silver he had bought in Cheapside. It showed on the one side Cupid in his sleep and on the other Venus fondling a peacock. ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... it, as the saying is, and then you take a walk. It lends itself to the gross pleasantries loved of the populace; especially when they are formulated by the shameless genius of an Aristophanes or a Plautus. What merriment over a simple allusion to the sonorous bean, what guffaws from the throats of Athenian sailors or Roman porters! Did the two masters, in the unfettered gaiety of a language less reserved ...
— Social Life in the Insect World • J. H. Fabre
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