Word: morerel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enrico Mafficini modeled his dialogue on the colloquial Latin of Plautus (died 184 B.C.), and from the first "Fuit quondam . . ." (Once upon a time), the adventures of Pinoculus move as swiftly as ever. He is set upon by bandits who demand his money or his life ("Emitte nummos aut morerel"), and later decide to hang him ("Suspendamus!"'). He is robbed, imprisoned ("Subito in carcarem mittite," cries the judge), encounters a "horridum serpentem," is nearly eaten alive by a fisherman who thinks he is a crawfish...
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