Word: plautus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Plautus was the Neil Simon of Rome. When the tired businessman of the Eternal City trudged home from his officina on one of the seven hills in his sweat-stained toga and quaffed a quick goblet of Falernian, his wife probably said, "Carissime, in thealrum eamus...
...these cataclysms. So unique is the Wodehouse brand of humor, however, that to describe it is as thankless and bootless as describing the taste of the perfect martini. Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) can be compared to no other novelist, living or dead. His literary ancestor, instead, is the Roman dramatist Plautus, and, like Plautus, he is the manufacturer of a thousand comically crossed connections...
...song is not through the cleverness of the rhyme but by what you're saying. The biggest laugh in Forum is the line in the warriors' song: "I am a parade." That's a brilliant line-and it's not mine, it's Plautus...