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- ante 184 BC, Titus Maccius Plautus (author), Friedrich Leo (editor), Miles Gloriosus in Plauti Comoediae (1895), act II, scene i, Prologue, lines 8–9:
- Alazon Graece huic nomen est comoediae, // id nos Latine gloriosum dicimus.
- “Alazon” is the name, in Greek, of this Comedy; the same we call in Latin, “the Braggart” (Gloriosus). ― translation from: Henry Thomas Riley, Miles Gloriosus, or The Braggart Captain in The Comedies of Plautus (1912), act II, scene i, the prologue