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Miles gloriosus

noun
1.
A braggart soldier (a stock figure in comedy).





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... Plautus, and Ennius)—Ver. 18. Ennius was the oldest of these three Poets. Naevius a contemporary of Plautus. See a probable allusion to his misfortunes in the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus, ...
— The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes • Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence


Words linked to "Miles gloriosus" :   swellhead, egotist, egoist


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