Curculio
“The Guzzler”; a comedy of Plautus with a slender plot, and written to
ridicule the ways of parasites. It was composed later than B.C. 193. It is noticeable as
having a sort of
parabasis (q.v.) in the fourth
act (sc. i.). An edition in Latin and German is that of Geppert
(Berlin, 1845).