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Atellan plays

also: Atellanis, exodia

Improvised verse farces taken over from the Oscans of Atella, kept by freeborn youth as their own and not left to professional actors, so their performers kept tribe and military standing.

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The History of Rome, Book 7 history · 1 mention

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