In this work's final scene the title character, whose praises are sung by a ward whose name means "bread eater," is faced with the threat of having his testicles lopped off and used for necklace beads by the cook Cario.  A ring given to the title character by the handmaid Milphidippa sets up the plot that brings about the title character's humiliation, in which he falls for the feigned adulterous advances of the prostitute Acroteleutium, who pretends to be the wife of th
In this work's final scene the title character, whose praises are sung by a ward whose name means "bread eater," is faced with the threat of having his testicles lopped off and used for necklace beads by the cook Cario.  A ring given to the title character by the handmaid Milphidippa sets up the plot that brings about the title character's humiliation, in which he falls for the feigned adulterous advances of the prostitute Acroteleutium, who pretends to be the wife of the elderly Periplectomenus.  That scheme, as well as one involving the construction of a fictitious twin to facilitate the romance between Philocomasium and Pleusicles, is executed by the title character's clever slave, Palaestrio.  FTP, name this play about Pyrgopolynices, through which Plautus created the stock character of a boastful military man.
In this work's final scene the title character, whose praises are sung by a ward whose name means "bread eater," is faced with the threat of having his testicles lopped off and used for necklace beads by the cook Cario.  
Miles Gloriosus or The Braggart Soldier or The Swaggering Solider