plotus

1.

plautus ( plōt- ), a, um, adj.

I.

Flat, broad: plauti appellantur canes, quorum aures languidae sunt ac flaccidae et latius videntur patere, Paul. ex Fest. p. 231 Müll.:

conchae plautiores,

Tert. Pall. 3.—

II.

Among the Umbrians, flat-footed:

(plotos appellant) Umbri pedibus planis (natos... unde et Maccius) poëta, quia Umber Sarsinas erat, a pedum planitie initio Plotus, postea Plautus coeptus est dici,

Fest. p. 238 Müll.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 239 ib.

2.

Plautus, i, m. [flat-foot, v. 1. plautus], an Umbrian surname. —So, T. Maccius (or Maccus) Plautus, a celebrated Roman comic poet, a native of the Umbrian village Sarsina. —(On the name Maccius, instead of the earlier reading Accius or Attius, v. Ritschl, De Plauti poëtae nominibus, in his Parergon Plautinorum I. pp. 3-43;

and respecting his life and writings,

id. ib. pp. 47 - 579), Cic. Brut. 15, 60; Quint. 10, 1, 99.—

B.

Transf., the works of Plautus, a comedy of Plautus:

adporto vobis Plautum linguā non manu,

Plaut. Men. prol. 3.—Hence,

II.

Plautīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Plautus, Plautian:

pater,

i. e. a father in a play of Plautus, Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 2, 2 fin.:

numeri et sales,

Hor. A. P. 270:

sermo,

Quint. 10, 1, 99:

stilus,

Gell. 3, 3, 13: prosapia, i. e. poor, mean, because Plautus was said to have worked in a mill, Min. Fel. Octav. 14.— Sup.:

versus Plautinissimi,

most Plautus-like, altogether in Plautus's manner, Gell. 3, 3, 4.