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Excerpt from The Original Element in Plautus
I wish, said the teacher to the student, that you were working at an artist, and not at a hack like Plautus. The student, puzzled and discouraged, consulted other authorities as to the precise meaning of hack, and found that it meant a literary drudge, who is much overworked, and therefore a person habitually tired. Now, whatever other failings may be ascribed to Plautus, he certainly never shows signs of being tired; and although he is often casually set down as being nothing better than a mechanical translator from Greek into Latin, yet a perusal of his plays suggests that many of them are the work neither of a hack nor of a single artist, but of several artists, of whom Plautus was indubitably one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
