A few examples of them will suffice.
Plautus
MILITARY SWAGGER
PYRGOPOLINICES, ARTOTROGUS, and SOLDIERS
Pyrgopolinices. Take care that the luster of my shield is more bright than the rays of the sun when the sky is clear, that, when occasion comes, the battle being joined, ’mid the fierce ranks right opposite it may dazzle the eyesight of the enemy. But I must console this saber of mine, that it may not lament nor be downcast in spirits, because I have thus long been wearing it keeping holiday, though it so dreadfully longs to make havoc of the enemy. But where is Artotrogus?
Artotrogus. Here he is; he stands close by the hero, valiant and successful, and of princely form. Mars could not dare to style himself so great a warrior, nor compare his prowess with yours.
Pyrgopolinices. Him you mean whom I spared on the Gorgonidonian plains, where Bumbomachides Clytomestoridysarchides, the grandson of Neptune, was the chief commander?
Artotrogus. I remember him; him, I suppose you mean, with the golden armor, whose legions you puffed away with your breath, just as the wind blows away leaves or the reed-thatched roof.
Pyrgopolinices. That, by my troth, was really nothing at all.
Artotrogus. Faith, that really was nothing at all in comparison with other things I could mention (aside) which you never did. If any person ever beheld a more perjured fellow than this, or one more full in vain boasting, let him have me for himself: I’ll become his slave.
Pyrgopolinices. What are you saying?