Author

Titus Maccius Plautus(c. 254–184 BCE)Inferred

Titus Maccius Plautus is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Extracts from De Maistre, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedQuotedMentioned
Present in: Manuscripts

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Plaute était surement aussi applaudi, lors qu'il disait: / Du haut de sa sainte demeure, / Un Dieu toujours veillant nous regarde marcher, / Il nous voit, nous attend, nous observe à toute heure. / Et la plus sombre nuit ne saurait nous cacher.”

Extracts from De Maistre

When Fuller engaged with Titus Maccius Plautus

No datable encounters with Plautus, Titus Maccius have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Extracts from De Maistre

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“Plaute était surement aussi applaudi, lors qu'il disait: / Du haut de sa sainte demeure, / Un Dieu toujours veillant nous regarde marcher, / Il nous voit, nous attend, nous observe à toute heure.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Extracts from De Maistre." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred The specific play is not named. Plautus is named by De Maistre who quotes a verse about God's all-seeing vigilance from on high ('Du haut de sa sainte demeure, / Un Dieu toujours veillant nous regarde marcher'). The specific Plautine play is not identified.

De Maistre introduces the verse with 'Plaute était surement aussi applaudi, lors qu'il disait' — Plautus is named explicitly and the verse attributed to him. The specific Plautine play is not identified.