1) Play by Plautus 
[play] Rudens is a play by Roman author Plautus, thought to have been written around 211 BC. Its name translates from Latin as `The Rope`. It is a comedy, which describes how a girl, Palaestra, stolen from her parents by pirates, is reunited with her father, Daemones, ironically, by means of her pimp, Labrax. The story is, however, far more...