• I was a Roman 3rd and 2nd BCE Roman dramatist.
  • My comedies were often adaptations of lost originals of the Greek dramatist Menander of a century earlier.
  • I wrote about 130 plays, of which 20 still exist.
  • They feature such stock characters as the wise servant who knows more than his master.
  • This theme is echoed in P G Wodehouse’ Jeeves character.
  • Many of my plots have been adapted by others.
  • Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors is an adaptation of one of my plays.

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