单词	miles gloriosus
释义	miles gloriosus /ˌmiːleɪz ˌɡlɔːrɪˈəʊsəs / /ˌmʌɪliːz/ noun (plural milites gloriosi /ˌmɪlɪteɪz ˌɡlɔːrɪˈəʊsiː/) (In literature) a boastful soldier as a stock figure.The Plautine mode of comedy was based upon stock characters, including the crafty servant or the braggart soldier (miles gloriosus), which often figured in early English comedy.... So, here's to Fredric Koeppel, a veritable Diogenes among the milites gloriosi of the wine world. In fact, most of the things Epicharmus is claimed to have contributed to Attic comedy (parasites, cooks, milites gloriosi, philosophic charlatans) either are not really found in his work, or, if they were, are not found in Old Comedy but first in Middle. Origin Latin, from the title of a comedy by Plautus.
随便看	with the best will in the world with the exception of with the pedal to the metal with the sun (with) tongue in cheek withy with young witless witlessly witlessness witling witloof witness witness box witness mark witness stand witted witten Wittenberg witter Wittgensteinian Wittgenstein, Ludwig witticism wittily wittiness

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