miles gloriosus in English
noun
1
(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.
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1. 'A Mad-Cap Ruffian and a Swearing Jack': Braggart Courtship from Miles Gloriosus to The Taming of the Shrew TIME for The Apprentice to retire after its recent array of lying Braggarts and the deluded