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The Diction of Roman Comedy - John Wright: Dancing in Chains: The Stylistic Unity of the Comoedia Palliata. (Papers and Monographs of the American School at Rome, 25.) Pp. viii + 230. Rome: American Academy, 1974. Cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

A. S. Gratwick
A. S. Gratwick
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University of St. Andrews
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The Classical Review , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , April 1978 , pp. 73 - 76
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1978

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1 Including only two citations of the Plautine fragments. A modern study to replace F. Winter's Bonn dissertation of 1885 thus remains a desideratum. In discussing the Boeotia attributed to Plautus and Aquilius (pp.81–5) Wright unfortunately misses the important parallel in Alciphron iii 1 Sch., first noticed by P. Lambecius in the 1640s and publicized by the Gronovii in their Cellius (Leyden, 1706). In spite of O. Ribbeck (Kolax, ASG 21 (1884), 35Google Scholar) and Leo, F. (Plaut. Forsch., 154)Google Scholar this parallel, which points to a common source in Menander's Boiotia, has never entered the main lore of Plautine scholars.

2 Strong clash in Plautus' and Terence's senarii is distributed thus with only about 1 percent mean deviation from play to play: