Plautus
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Plautina Rudente · the Latin comic dramatists
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman comic playwright whose Pseudolus is cited as early evidence of the lex Plaetoria.
(1) The lex Plaetoria, or Laetoria, was as old as Plautus, who about 186 b.
Ancient Law
Roman comic playwright whose plays are cited as illustrations of the Stipulation in use.
But the serviceableness of the stipulation is most vividly illustrated by referring to the actual examples in the pages of the Latin comic dramatists.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman comic playwright, cited for the dialogue in his play Rudens on the common sea and private catch.
Et in Plautina Rudente servo dicenti, ‘Mare quidem commune certost omnibus’, assentit piscator, addenti autem, ‘In mari inventust communi’ recte occurrit:
Meum quod rete atque hami nancti sunt, meum potissimumst.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman playwright cited for a maxim on rebuking a friend.
This is evident as far as verbal reproof goes, from the maxim of Plautus, that “to bestow merited reproof upon a a friend is useful, upon certain occasions, though by no means a grateful office.