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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-07-30 18:26:12+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The plot of “Mostellaria”, a comedy by early roman playright Plautus, follows a young man who goes wild after his father leaves on a business trip: he spends all of his money, trashes the house while throwing a party and invents a ghost story as a cover up when his father abruptly returns