Plautus

Bonnell Thornton died; an English poet, essayist and miscellaneous writer, and translator of Plautus.

Plautus wrote one hundred and thirty plays, not always for the stage, but for the reading public.

Plautus might be mistaken for a Greek, were it not for the painting of Roman manners, for his garb is essentially Greek.

The great excellence of Plautus was the masterly handling of language, and the adjusting the parts for dramatic effect.

Aristophanes gave him more pleasure than Sophocles, Plautus than Horace, whose merit he thought over-praised.