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LILJA, Saara, Terms of Abuse in Roman Comedy. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki, 1965. 117p. Sewn. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. Series: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Series B, Tom, 141,3. (Rare).'The first two chapters consider the Latin vocabulary of abuse first from a linguistic point of view, and then with reference to its social context. A final chapter suggests some 'conclusions with regard to Greek Comedy'. Pages 101-17 contain a useful alphabetical list, with play and line references, of nearly 300 terms of abuse from Plautus and Terence, and nearly 50 from the 'Dyscolus' and longer fragments of Menander. (…).' (R.H. MARTIN in The Classical Review (New Series), 1966, p.357). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 55.00 (Antiquarian)