Asinaria (The One with the Asses) is a comic play by the Latin playwright Titus Maccius Plautus known as one of the great works of Roman comedy. It is famed for containing the phrase Lupus est homo homini non homo quom qualis sit non novit. (One man to another is a wolf not a man when he doesn’t know what sort he is)
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Plautus
character in play
Argyrippus (Demaenetus's son), Artemona (Demaenetus's wife), Cleareta (a procuress), Demaenetus (an old man), Leonida (a slave), Philaenium (A prostitute)
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