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[11] Now there are about one-hundred-and-thirty comedies in circulation under the name ‘Plautus’; [12] but Lucius Aelius (that most learned of men) thought only twenty-five of them were his. [13] Yet there is no doubt that those which do not appear to have been written by Plautus but are attached to his name were the work of poets of old and were revised and polished up by him, and that is why they have the flavour of Plautus’ style. [14] But Varro and many others have recorded that he wrote the Saturio, the Addictus, and a third comedy whose name escapes me now, in a bakery, when, after losing all the money he had earned in jobs connected with the stage in trade, he had returned penniless to Rome, and to earn a living had hired himself out to a baker to drive around the stones which are called ‘trusatiles’.
We would doubt whether the epitaph of Plautus was really by the poet, if Marcus Varro had not quoted it in the first book of On Poets:
‘Since the death of Plautus, Comedy has been in mourning because the stage is deserted: then Laughter, Play, and Wit, and countless rhythms all wept together’.
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epigramma Plauti, quod dubitassemus an Plauti foret, nisi a M. Varrone positum esset in libro de poetis primo:

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postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, Comoedia luget scaena deserta; dein Risus, Ludus Iocusque, et Numeri innumeri simul omnes conlacrimarunt.

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We would doubt whether the epitaph of Plautus was really by the poet, if Marcus Varro had not quoted it in the first book of On Poets: ‘Since the death of Plautus, Comedy has been in mourning because the stage is deserted: then Laughter, Play, and Wit, and countless rhythms all wept together’.


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