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Plautus (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
The sparse biographical details on Titus Maccius Plautus (PLAW-tuhs) are drawn from historians and writers such as Livy and Cicero. From his birthplace, Sarsina, a mountainous rural region of Italy, where the native tongue was Umbrian, Plautus escaped, joining a traveling group of players (probably as an actor). He learned the technical intricacies of the profession, acquired a mastery of Latin—and perhaps some Greek—and became the...
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