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"Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet."
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Titus Maccius 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 Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.
"Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet."
"[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus."
"The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless."
"Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit."
"Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?"
"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."
"Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres."
"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."
"Te de aliis, quam alios de te suavius est fieri doctos."
"Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !"
"Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus."
"Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem."