=PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS.= _b._ 254, _d._ 184 B.C. =Roman comedian.= COMEDIES. Amphitryon, Epidicus and Rudens. _Tr._ by [Laurence Echard]. 1694. MENAECMI. A pleasant comœdie. Written in Englishe by W. W[arner], 1595. Formed type of Italian comedy of Renaissance. Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors' is an adaptation from Plautus's 'Menaechmi'. Dryden's 'Amphitryon' is adapted from Plautus through Molière. 'Sackville sought his comic models in Plautus'. =PLINY= (=GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS=). _The elder._ _b._ 23, _d._ 79. =Latin writer.= THE HISTORIE OF THE WORLD, commonly called the Natural Historie of Pliny. _Tr._ by P. Holland, 1601. THE SECRETS AND WONDERS OF THE WORLD. A Booke ryght rare and Straunge, contayning many excellent properties given to Man, Beasts, Foules ... Trees and Plants. _Tr._ 1585. A SUMMARIE OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND WONDERS OF THE WORLDE, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of Pliny. _Tr._ by J. R. [1565]. An important source of our knowledge of early science. 'Doubtless Pliny's "Encyclopædia" is ultimately responsible for much of the confused natural history of the Middle Ages, and not only Chaucer, but also the sixteenth century Euphuists, with their egregious similitudes, are almost certainly in his debt'. =PLINY, CAIUS.= (=CAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS.=) _The younger._ _b._ 61 A.D., =Latin author and orator.= THE LETTERS OF PLINY THE CONSUL, with occasional remarks by Wm. Melmoth, 1746. The 'Letters of Pliny' are the most precious relics of Roman epistolary correspondence that have come down to us. The model for the modern letters of Horace Walpole and Pope. =PLUTARCH.= _b._ 50, _d._ 120. =Greek philosopher and moralist.= The greatest biographer of antiquity. THE EDUCATION or BRINGING UP OF CHILDREN. _Tr._ out of Plutarch. By Syr T. Eliot [1535]. THE GOVERNAÑCE OF GOOD HELTHE, by the most excellent phylosopher Plutarche [1530]. HOWE ONE MAY TAKE PROFITE OF HIS ENMYES, _translated_ out of Plutarche [by Sir T. Elyot] [1535]. THE LIVES OF THE MOST NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANS COMPARED TOGETHER BY PLUTARKE. _Tr._ [from the French of Amyot] by Thomas North, 1579. THE PHILOSOPHIE, COMMONLY CALLED THE MORALS. _Tr._ by P. Holland, 1603. A RIGHT NOBLE HISTORY OF THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER AND SOME OF THEIR LIVES. Written by ... P. etc., 1569. Shakespeare used North's tr. of Plutarch's 'Lives' freely for his plots as is seen in _Coriolanus_, _Julius Caesar_. P. also initiated the biographical essay, of whom we have the best exponent in Macaulay. Has formed a model for all later writers. =POEMA MORALE.= (Moral Ode.) _Ed._ Text and _Tr._ R. Morris, 'Old English Homilies', 1878. =POLISH ANTHOLOGIES: COLLECTIONS.= BOWRING, Sir JOHN. _Tr._ SPECIMENS OF THE POLISH POETS. 1827. =POLIZIANO, ANGELO= (=POLITIAN=). _b._ 1454, _d._ 1494. =Italian classical scholar and poet.= HISTORY OF HERODIAN. _Tr._ ... by N. Smyth. [1550.] ORFEO.