PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS. b. 254, d. 184 B.C. Roman comedian.
COMEDIES. Amphitryon, Epidicus and Rudens. Tr. by [Laurence Echard]. 1694.
MENAECMI. A pleasant comœdie. Written in Englishe by W. W[arner], 1595.
Formed type of Italian comedy of Renaissance. Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors' is an adaptation from Plautus's 'Menaechmi'. Dryden's 'Amphitryon' is adapted from Plautus through Molière.
'Sackville sought his comic models in Plautus'.
PLINY (GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS). The elder. b. 23, d. 79. Latin writer.
THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD, commonly called the Natural Historie of Pliny. Tr. by P. Holland, 1601.
THE SECRETS AND WONDERS OF THE WORLD. A Booke ryght rare and Straunge, contayning many excellent properties given to Man, Beasts, Foules ... Trees and Plants. Tr. 1585.
A SUMMARIE OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND WONDERS OF THE WORLDE, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of Pliny. Tr. by J. R. [1565].
An important source of our knowledge of early science.