Record

Document Reference	Pw V 545/2
Title	MS verse, unattributed epilogue composed for Plautus' Amphitruo [performed at Westminster School 1704]; n.d.
Level	Piece
Content Description	Text consists of 18 lines in elegiac couplets. The epilogue starts with the direction: Sosia loquitur. This is an epilogue specially written for a performance at Westminster School (1704) of Plautus' Amphitruo, and has allusions to Queen Anne, Louis XIV, Philip V, and to British possession of Gibraltar.
Title Of Work	Epilogus
First Line of Poem	Iam labor in fine est, petit Aethera Jupiter, et Te
Last Line of Poem	Alcide, clavam nunc gerit Anna tuam
Language	Latin
Term	wars, Spanish Succession 1701-1713
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.
Related Material	University of Nottingham Library: Pw V 546 (variant copy of text)
Publication Note	Lusus Westmonasterienses (1730) pp 220-21

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA72708	Plautus; T. Maccius (c.250-184 BC); -; Roman dramatist	c.250-184 BC
NA18608	Anne (1665-1714); Queen of Great Britain and Ireland	1665-1714
NA432	Louis XIV (1638-1715); King of France; (the Sun King)	1638-1715
NA18625	Philip V (1683-1746); King of Spain	1683-1746