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en-wikipedia-org-6079		Plautus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	12642	1316	69	Their speech is littered with words such as pietas and aequus, and they struggle to make their father fulfill his proper role.[16] The stock parasite in this play, Gelasimus, has a patron-client relationship with this family and offers to do any job in order to make ends meet; Owens puts forward that Plautus is portraying the economic hardship many Roman citizens were experiencing due to the cost of war.[17] He says that the "verbosity of the Plautine prologues has often been commented upon and generally excused by the necessity of the Roman playwright to win his audience."[23] However, in both Menander and Plautus, word play is essential to their comedy.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6079.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6079.txt