Excerpt from De Aulularia Plauti Fabula: Iisque Scriptoribus, Qui Eam Imitati SuntCaecilio palmam Static do'mimico. Plautus secundus facile exsuperat oeteros. Geil. Noct. Att. XV. E. 24. Ceterum interdum Molleriuo quoque appellatur, velntì in epitaphio incipiente his verbis Hic faounde jacea facetiarum Molleri, arbiter et pater jocorum etc. Quod legitur in libro inscripto: Molière commenté etc. Paris. 1813, voi. I. P. 83. Mole ri contra nomen anfert in altero epitaphio latino, a... in sepulcro ipso inscriptum est: Ossa J. - B. Poquelin Mière Parisini etc, disserere equidem hanc ob rem ausus sum, quum animadver terem neminem unquam antea hanc rem investigasse unde certius appareat, quam vim artes atque litterae latinae in nostra usque tempora exercuerint, et quam arctis vinculis nosmet ipsi cum antiquissimis et Graecorum et Romanorum studiis ingeniisqne conjuncti simus.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.