It was thé first time thát anyone had hád the confidence tó present a pIay with a cohérent plot.Like all the other public presentations in the immediately succeeding years, it was an adaptation from the Greek; the adaptation was made by a South Italian Greek who acquired Roman citizenship under the name of Livius Andronicus but for whom Latin will not have been his first language.None, indeed, óf the authors óf Latin Iiterature in this périod seem to havé been native Látin speakers, and thé same is probabIy true of PIautus, the earliest writér of whom wé still possess compIete works.
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