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Hi, everybody! I was reading Plautus' play Trinummus ("The Three Coins"). Though it's not epicurean and there aren't specific epicurean characters, I found an interesting quote. I think it can be the description of an epicurean person: Hic homost omnium hominum praecipuos, voluptatibus gaudiisque antepotens: ita commoda quae cupio eveniunt, quod ago adsequitur, subest, subsequitur, ita gaudiis gaudium suppeditat. According to Perseus Translation: This individual is the very first of all men; exc…