“Drink! live like the Greeks! eat! gorge!. (translator unknown)”

Mostellaria, Act I, scene 1, lines 61-62
Mostellaria (The Haunted House)

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Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !

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Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BC

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