[200] Cf. Pseud. 720:—

'Horum causa haec agitur spectatorum fabula,

Hi sciunt qui hic adfuerunt; vobis post narravero.'

[201] Pseud. 401-2.

[202] Bacchid. 214.

[203] De Senec. 14.

[204] E.g. graphicus, doulice, euscheme, morus, logos, techinae, prothyme, basilicus, etc., etc.

[205] Truculentus, 55-57. Weise condemns the passage as spurious. But whether written by Plautus or not it is in the spirit of the Plautine comedy. In a passage of the Poenulus (act iii. 1. 21) another reference is made to the sense of security enjoyed since their victory:—

'Praesertim in re populi placida, atque interfectis hostibus,

Non decet tumultuari.'