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- noun Alternative form of
miles gloriosus .
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Off he goes, filling our ears with endless, colicky speeches about the honor of the Ninth and all that Miles Gloriosus codswallop, when the truth is that he just fancies a sliver of stuffed pike now and again.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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Off he goes, filling our ears with endless, colicky speeches about the honor of the Ninth and all that Miles Gloriosus codswallop, when the truth is that he just fancies a sliver of stuffed pike now and again.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991
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Miles Gloriosus_ is the title of one of the comedies of Plautus; and one of the stock characters of the ancient comedy is a conceited, swaggering, brainless soldier, who is perpetually boasting of his own valor and exploits, and who takes the most fulsome and ridiculous flattery as the due recognition of his transcendent merit.
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In the evening the _Miles Gloriosus_ was presented; it was followed by a _moresca_ in which ten shepherds with horns on their heads fought with each other.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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Terence, and _Le Brave_ (1567), an imitation of the _Miles Gloriosus_, in which the characters of Plautus are turned into Frenchmen, the action taking place at Orleans.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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_The Miles Gloriosus_ appeared about 206, the _Cistellaria_ about 202, _Stichus_ in 200, _Pseudolus_ in 191 B.C.; the _Truculentus_, like _Pseudolus_, was composed when Plautus was an old man, not many years before his death in 184 B.C.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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[15] See the introduction to his edition of Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, p. 11.
Was Christ Born in Bethlehem? 1851-1939 1898
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(The word means “tower and town taker.”) -- Plautus, _Miles Gloriosus_.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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Grisetti doesn't really come to life until he's playing dead -- standing in for Philia, whom Pseudolus is trying to pass off as a plague victim, lest the conquering hero Miles Gloriosus (Graham Rowat) claim her as his bought-and-paid-for bride.
TheaterMania.com 2010
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The fellow playing Miles Gloriosus (Stuart Ambrose) was properly villainous/hilarious.
news from me evanier 2010
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