Tricky slave (redirect from Servus callidus)
his own interests. In the New Comedy, the tricky slave (dolosus servus or servus callidus) aimed to get his freedom by assisting his young master in love...
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in his plays. One tool that Plautus used for the expression of his servus callidus stock character was alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of...
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Slavery in ancient Rome (redirect from Servus publicus)
line 80). Holt Parker, "Crucially Funny or Tranio on the Couch: The Servus Callidus and Jokes about Torture," Transactions of the American Philological...
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family one. Helping him to overcome the various difficulties is the servus callidus (tricky slave) or the parasite (penniless man who helps him in exchange...
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retracts his intent to take a spoken-for Milphidippa. Palaestrio (servus callidus 'clever slave'): slave to Pyrgopolynices, he was originally Pleusicles'...
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citing CIL 6.975. Peralta 2023, p. 173, citing Asinaria 716, where the servus callidus Libanus demands to be worshipped as Salus and Fortuna Obsequens. Miano...
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