miles gloriosus
Noun
Meaning
a braggart soldier (a stock figure in comedy)
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As J. W. Draper notes, the gluttonous Falstaff shares many characteristics with a parasite such as Artotrogus from Miles Gloriosus.
For instance, the clever slave has important roles in both L’Avare and L’Etourdi, two plays by Molière, and in both drives the plot and creates the ruse just like Palaestrio in Miles Gloriosus.
“On a Patriotic Passage in the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus,” The American Journal of Philology 8.1(1887), p. 18. A. F. West believes that this is inserted commentary on the Second Punic War.
In his article “On a Patriotic Passage in the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus”, he states that the war “engrossed the Romans more than all other public interests combined”.
Limited records suggest that the first known university production of Plautus in England was of Miles Gloriosus at Oxford in 1522-3.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. p. 24. One good example is a piece of verse from the Miles Gloriosus, the composition date of which is not clear but which is often placed in the last decade of the 3rd century BC.