Gell. xvi. 7, 1, ‘Laberius in mimis, quos scriptitavit, oppido quam verba finxit praelicenter.’ Examples are manuatus est for furatus est; abluvium for diluvium.
(b) His use of plebeian expressions.
Gell. xix. 13, 3, ‘quae a Laberio ignobilia nimis et sordentia in usum linguae Latinae intromissa sunt.’
(c) His references to philosophy.
Cf. l. 17,
‘nec Pythagoream dogmam doctus’;
l. 72,
‘Democritus Abderites physicus philosophus,’ etc.
For views on Laberius cf. Hor. Sat. i, 10, 5,
‘Nam sic et Laberi mimos ut pulchra poemata mirer.’