Meanings
- historicalpluralplural onlyAncient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.
All his plays bear Latin titles and their plots prove them to have been tabernariae. The fragments show a broad and popular tone, a bold, lively and fresh manner reminding one of Plautus, […]
1900, Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel, Ludwig von Schwabe, Teuffel's History of Roman Literature, volume 1, page 1671 more example
These Atellane plays were not praetextatae, i.e. comedies in which magistrates and persons of rank were introduced, nor tabernariae, the characters in which were taken from low life; they rather seem to have been a union of high comedy and its parody.
2022, William Smith, A Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Origin
- Latin[Term?]
- Englishtabernariae
From Latin [Term?].
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