Miles Gloriosus
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Miles Gloriosus (literally, "famous or boastful soldier", in Latin) is a stock character from the drama, specifically comedy, of classical Rome, and variations on this character have appeared in drama and fiction ever since.<ref>Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, p 172, ISBN 0-691-01298-9</ref> The character derives from the alazon or "braggart" of the Greek Old Comedy (e.g Aristophanes). Miles Gloriosus is also the name of a play by Plautus.
In Commedia dell'arte, the figure of Il Capitano is a miles gloriosus.
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