AMPHITRUO

Meaning of AMPHITRUO in English

/am fi"trooh oh'/ , n.

a comedy (c200 B.C.) by Plautus.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

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