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Menechʹmians

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Persons exactly like each other, as the brothers Dromio. So called from the Menœchmi of Plautus.

⁂ In the Comedy of Errors, not only the two Dromios are exactly like each others, but also Antiphŏlus of Ephesus is the facsimile of his brother. Antipholus of Syracuse.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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