Plautus
Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus, commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine /ˈplɔːtaɪn/ refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPlaywright
home faults looks
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
fire flames smoke
Flame is very near to smoke.
men good-man guilt
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
guilt trifles esteem
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
house jam guests
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.
mother hunger suspects
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
ingrates ingratitude
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
insults-you insult speak
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
jest turns earnest
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
eating morrow
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.
thinking immortal disgrace
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
men common helping
It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.
learning life-is thorough
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
smell perfume wells
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.