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Plautus paints his characters with broad strokes, often after a stock-model, always with a view to the gross effect from a distance and on the whole; Terence handles the psychological development with a careful and often excellent miniature-painting, as in the -Adelphi- for instance, where the two old men the easy bachelor enjoying life in town, and the sadly harassed not at all refined country-landlord form a masterly contrast.
The standing masks, of which there was a certain fixed number viz., eight masks for old men, and seven for servants from which alone in ordinary cases at least the poet had to make his choice, further favoured a stock-model treatment.
Plautus paints his characters with broad strokes, often after a stock-model, always with a view to the gross effect from a distance and on the whole; Terence handles the psychological development with a careful and often excellent miniature-painting, as in the -Adelphi- for instance, where the two old men the easy bachelor enjoying life in town, and the sadly harassed not at all refined country-landlord form a masterly contrast.
The standing masks, of which there was a certain fixed number viz., eight masks for old men, and seven for servants from which alone in ordinary cases at least the poet had to make his choice, further favoured a stock-model treatment.
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