[272] Eunuchus, Prologue.
[273] Prologue to Phormio, l. 5 etc.
[274] Eunuchus, 7.
[275] We have one or two Latin puns. Such as the play of words in amentium and amantium, verba and verbera; one or two cases of alliteration and asyndeton, e.g.—
'Hic est vietus, vetus, veternosus senex,'—
and
'Profundat, perdat, pereat, etc.;'
but such mannerisms, which abound in Plautus, are extremely rare in the younger poet.
[276] In the Heauton Timorumenos.
[277] 'This act was not worthy of you, Chaerea: for even if it is quite fitting that I should receive such an insult, it was not fitting that it should come from you.'