Presente y futuro gnómico en Plauto

The author of this study discusses the atemporal uses of the verb in Latin from the gnomic perspective of the use of the Present-tense and the Future in Plautus. She also focuses on the fact that the gnomic Perfect does not appear until Catullus’ Poem 64, since the plautine style is more developed on the level of «parole» than on the level of «langue». The indifferent use of gnomic present/future in maxims, assertions and proverbs makes us think of a contextual neutralization, and, consequently, of a stylistic and literary variation in Plautus