Amphitruo

American  

[am-fi-troo-oh] / æmˈfɪ truˌoʊ /

noun

1. a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus.

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Example Sentences

Not till then was the second half of the fable of Amphitruo performed, with unmistakable references to the future birth of a Hercules of the House of Este.

From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob

A fixed colloquial idiom: OLD princeps1 5 cites Plautus Amphitruo 204 'delegit uiros primorum principes' and Hor Ep I xvii 35 'principibus placuisse uiris non ultima laus est'.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear

I am the renowned Amphitruo, whose slave is Sosia; you know, the fellow that turns into Mercury at will.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace

The Amphitruo remains, even now, one of the most masterly specimens of this kind.

From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

The Amphitruo is somewhat difficult to class; if, as has been suggested above, it be assigned to the old comedy, it will be a Palliata.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas