The Swaggering Soldier by Plautus
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- The Swaggering Soldier - Plautus: Names and their meanings
- Palaestrio
- palaetra - 'wrestling ground' is appropirate as the slave os slippery and full of tricks as would have been an acnient wrestler who was covered in oil
- Pyrgo's slaves, originally Pleusicles'
- Pyrgopolynices
- purgos - 'tower' and polu/polis - 'city' and nike - 'voctory', the whole thong means 'mighty conqueror of fortresses
- Philocomasium
- philos - 'loveing' and komos - 'gay party'. Means 'loving gay party'
- Pyrgo's courtesan
- Periplectomenus
- periplekto - 'I embrace' / 'entwine', either embraces girls or is a major contributor to the play
- Acroteleutium
- ‘the highest end’, i.e., she’s the top or the best. It may be a reference to her expertise as a prostitute
- Hired courtesan by Palaestrio to be Peri's wife
- Milphiddippa
- Based on a play with the same slave name
- Artotrogus
- Artos - 'bread' and trogo - 'I chew'. 'Bread gobbler' is appropriate to a 'parasite' or 'hanger on'
- Slave of Pyrgo
- Sceledrus
- No known Greek word but could mean stupid / rascally / dirty
- Pleusicles
- True master of Palaestrio and lover of Philo
- made up of two words: the verb ‘to sail’ and the noun ‘glory’.
- Palaestrio
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