Top 10 similar words or synonyms for philocomasium

palaestrio    0.728036

pyrgopolynices    0.706075

pleusicles    0.645112

periplectomenus    0.640594

daemones    0.620690

pullo    0.617286

vorenus    0.611724

pseudolus    0.608928

sceledrus    0.606101

bacchis    0.602505

Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for philocomasium

Article Example
Miles Gloriosus (play) Palaestrio comes up with a plan to tell Pyrgopolynices that Philocomasium has a twin sister, Honoria, who is visiting Ephesus with her lover and mother and staying with Periplectomenus. Should Sceledrus make accusations, then Palaestrio will just refute the claim, and say it’s her twin. Periplectomenus goes back inside to tell Philocomasium what has happened and to tell her the plan. Meanwhile, Philocomasium goes through the hole in the wall back into Pyrgopolynices' house, emerging from it shortly afterwards with Palaestrio and Sceledrus. Philocomasium tells Sceledrus that she had a dream that her twin sister had arrived from Athens. Sceledrus has his doubts, so Philocomasium goes back into Pyrgopolynices' house, then through the hole in the wall and comes out of the other house as her twin sister Honoria. Meanwhile, Sceledrus stands guard outside Pyrgopolynices' house. Philocomasium comes out of Periplectomenus' front door, giving orders to slaves inside. She challenges Sceledrus when he addresses her as Philocomasium, and her manner is that of a free woman. She says her name is Honoria and that she has arrived the previous night from Athens, and wants to try to find her twin sister Philocomasium. Sceledrus is now convinced. He promises Palaestrio that he will not speak of this again. Just then Periplectomenus comes out and is furious at Sceledrus and how he has treated his “lady guest.” He threatens to whip him but gets over it right away. Sceledrus, who still thinks he’s been tricked that there is a plot to get Pyrgopolynices to sell him to another master, decides to say nothing for the moment.
Miles Gloriosus (play) Philocomasium ("virgo" ‘maiden): Athenian girl and lover of Pleusicles, she is abducted by Pyrgopolynices. A cunning and intelligent woman, she masquerades as her own twin sister to aid in her escape from Pyrgopolynices.
Miles Gloriosus (play) • Palaestrio ("servus callidus" ‘clever slave’): slave to the Pyrgopolynices upon being sold to him by pirates who captured him after he set off to rescue Philocomasium, he is actually Pleusicles' slave. The only one who knows the full extent of the lies told to move the plot along, Palaestrio orchestrates the entire scheme to return Philocomasium to Pleusicles. Ultimately he convinces Pyrogopolynices to give up Philocomasium in order to marry a rich divorcee—really a prostitute he hired, Acroteleutium. The dramatic irony created by Palaestrio’s asides adds interest and humor to the already hilarious predicament he expertly solves. Palaestrio consistently breaks the fourth wall to explain what is going on in the show to the audience.
Miles Gloriosus (play) The title of the play, "The Swaggering Soldier", suggests that the hero is Pyrgopolynices, the Miles Gloriosus. Nothing could be further from the truth. The play’s true hero comes from the unlikeliest of places—a slave . Before the play’s start, Pyrgropolynices steals Philocomasium from her home, mother, and lover, Pleusicles. Palaestrio, Pyrgopolynices’ slave and the play’s true hero, seeks to right his master’s wrong and reunite Philocomasium with her true love. He masterminds a plan to trick his fellow slave Sceledrus and his master Pyrgopolynices so that Philocomasium and Pleusicles can live happily ever after. Exploiting the stupidity of Sceledrus and Pyrgopolynices, Palaestrio succeeds. In this play Plautus shows his audience that anyone can be a hero, regardless of their situation.
Miles Gloriosus (play) • Pleusicles ("adulescens" ‘young man’): a young man from Athens who has enlisted the help of his former slave, Palaestrio, to take back his girlfriend, Philocomasium, from the man who has taken her, Pyrgopolynices. In the duping of Pyrgopolynices he plays the role of sailor. His only part in the plan hatched by Palaestrio and Periplectomenus is to serve as the vessel who will return Philocomasium to Athens. Love-struck and a bit addled he almost blows the entire scheme. Palaestrio’s cleverness and Pyrgopolynices’ stupidity keep all rolling along and he successfully wins back his girl.