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Document Reference	Pw V 545/1
Title	MS verse, unattributed prologue composed for Plautus' Amphitruo [performed at Westminster School 1704]; n.d.
Level	Piece
Content Description	Text consists of 18 lines in elegiac couplets. This is a prologue specially written for Plautus' Amphitruo, performed at Westminster School (1704; for date see Pw V 545). The text starts with the direction: 'Sosia loquitur'. The text is headed by a quotation from Virgil, Eclogue 10.2: Neget quis carmina Gallo? Title in printed text reads 'Prologus ad Amphitruonem'.
Title Of Work	Prologus
First Line of Poem	In nova cum Divûm mutentur corpora formae,
Last Line of Poem	Et placida possit fronte sedere Cato.
Language	Latin
Term	education, schools, Westminster School
Physical Description	For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, etc) of the MS in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 545.
Publication Note	Lusus Westmonasterienses (1730) pp 219-20

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA72708	Plautus; T. Maccius (c.250-184 BC); -; Roman dramatist	c.250-184 BC
NA72709	Vergilius Maro; P. (70-19 BC); Virgil; Roman poet	70-19 BC

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