No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Hospes nullus tám in amici hospitium devorti potest, quin, ubi triduom continuom fuerit, iam odiosus siet.

Plautus

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Topic

Wearing out one's welcome Hospitality Guests and visitors

Speaker

Pleusicles

Author

Plautus

Source

Miles Gloriosus

Medium

Play

Language

Latin

Time

200 BC 200s BC 3rd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Italy Europe

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Original Citation

Plautus. Miles Gloriosus. c. 206 BC, Rome, Italy, act 3, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Plautus. Miles Gloriosus, edited by Mason Hammond, Arthur W. Mack, and Walter Moskalew. Harvard University Press, 1997, act 3, sc. 1.

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Author

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Current Citation

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