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Three brief scraps of the Tarcntilla also survive. Com. 73 W (85 R 3 ) , uereor serio, might have been spoken by o n e of the sons, nervous at the thought o f his father's arrival, or perhaps b y one o f the fathers, w o r r y i n g about what his son was doing to his reputation; cf. Trin. 738-739, uerum hoc ego uereor tie istaec pollicitatio / te in crimen populo ponat atque mfamiam. Serio does not appear w i t h uereor in Plautus, though it is coupled with tnetuo in Rud. 1045-1046, serio edepol ...

T h e viciousncss of his words reminds us of the Plautine — and R o m a n — tendency to imagine a bordello whenever res lettottiae are mentioned. 40 Thievery, the standard activity o f a cocus (cf. Pseud. 851-852), is described in Inc. 30 a-c W (121-1212 R 3 ) ; cocus edit N e p t u n u m Cererem et Venerem expertam Vulcanom Liberumque absorbuit pariter. For a similar mock-epic use of the gods' names, cf. Rud. 761, Volcanum adducam, is Venerist aduorsarins. T h e fragments as they stand are complete e n o u g h to show that many of the situations and cliches, as well as the 40 Fraenkel, EPP 140-141.

2fl Mueller (supra p. 15. n. 3) 45. Livius was the inventor of the trochaic septeuarias, but it is undeniable that in his handling of this meter, as with tlie senarius, he does not deviate f r o m the norms w e extrapolate f r o m Plautine usage. 29 There is n o evidence that Livius was responsible for the introduction of lyric meters into Latin comedy. There is a nice set o f cretics among the tragic fragments (Trag. 20-22 W [20-22 R 3 ], f r o m the Equos Troimms): dd mild / hdsc(e) opes qitds peto, qitcis precox!

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