Meaning of tabernariae | Babel Free

Definitions

Ancient Roman comedies dealing with the life of the lower classes.

historical, plural, plural-only

Examples

“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, […]”

“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.”

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