3. Festivals and localities.—References to these are rarer. Examples are: Mil. 691,
‘Da, mi vir, Calendis meam qui matrem moenerem’;
Trin. 545,
‘Campans genus’;
Trin. 609,
‘Tam modo, inquit Praenestinus.’
Mil. 359,
‘Credo ego istoc exemplo tibi esse pereundum extra portam’;
a reference to the Esquiline gate, outside which slaves were executed.
4. Private life.—These references are mostly to the lower classes, especially slaves, with whom Plautus was very familiar. Hence words referring to household duties, as promus, suppromus, cella, cellarius, verna, pulmentum (from Mil.) To their patois also belong phrases for cheating, like emungere, intervortere, sarcinam imponere, ducere, ductare, circumducere, and the very large number of words relating to punishment, as: furcifer, verbero, supplicium virgarum, varius virgis, talos frangere, crux, verberea statua (Pseud. 911); gymnasium flagri (Asin. 297). Cf. also Epid. 17,