Note 275 — Chapter VII · TERENCE AND THE COMIC POETS SUBSEQUENT TO PLAUTUS.

We have one or two Latin puns. Such as the play of words in amentium and amantium, verba and verbera; one or two cases of alliteration and asyndeton, e.g.—

and

but such mannerisms, which abound in Plautus, are extremely rare in the younger poet.