We form a strange idea of men of so great and so versatile talents as Naevius and Plautus, if we refer such things to their free choice : this strange and clumsy " exterritorial " character of Roman comedy was undoubtedly due to causes very different from
considerations.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.3. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
