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Wake's original description is as follows, as in REED: Oxford, 1:307-8: "Cujus argumenti factus est delectus, non tantum quod splendida pomposaque representationum varietate, tantis spectatoribus delectationem affluentem ministraret; sed quod materia etiam videretur Aulicis, Academicisque auribus, animisque perquam accomodata.
Hinc factum est, ut rudi fortasse populo, & spectatoribus, quippe qui scurra saepius, quam poeta, delectentur, salsior sit Plautus visus: peritis certe auribus, & sapienti lectori, nihil Terentio festivius videri debet.
Specifically, the dog's almost magical ability to distinguish friend from foe, "fierce as he may be with the others, so gently does he run up to friends with ears down and tail wagging" ("torvus ut adversus reliquos, sic blandus amicis / auribus abiectis tremulaque occurrere cauda," 53-54), suggests that he must bear "some trace of our intelligence" (sensus vestigia nostri, 51).
 
 
 
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