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28s. net.) Professor Lindsay's main object in this treatise is

to show that Plautus echoed in his verse—notably in the hiatus—the everyday talk of a Roman in the second century before Christ, and that Plautine metre, a pre-adaptation of the Greek verse of Menander, has been gravely misunderstood by most authorities. Professor Lindsay elucidates a difficult and highly technical question in the painstaking fashion that one expects of him, and with an occasional touch of sly humour. " Our own belief is that the more one regards Plautus as an artist combining much of the skill of a Gilbert and a Sullivan the better for one's comprehension (and emendation) of this Musical Comedy of the Elizabethan Age of Rome."