Amphitryon (Plautus play) (English Wikipedia)

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Plautus (1912). The Comedies of Plautus. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley. G. Bell and Sons.
Plautus; Translated by Paul Nixon (1916). Plautus, I, Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives. Loeb Classical Library. ISBN 978-0-674-99067-8.
Constance Carrier (1970). Palmer Bovie (ed.). Five Roman Comedies. E.P. Dutton.

This play has 113 lines of iambic octonarii, according to Moore's database The Meters of Roman Comedy Archived 2022-09-22 at the Wayback Machine, compared with only 323 in all the other nineteen plays together. In general Plautus makes much less use of iambic octonarii than Terence, who has about 200 on average per play.

For details of the metres used in each line, see the Database by Timothy J. Moore of The Meters of Roman Comedy, Washington University in St Louis.

This play has 113 lines of iambic octonarii, according to Moore's database The Meters of Roman Comedy Archived 2022-09-22 at the Wayback Machine, compared with only 323 in all the other nineteen plays together. In general Plautus makes much less use of iambic octonarii than Terence, who has about 200 on average per play.