* Domina: ( Latin for " mistress ") The wife of Senex.

* Hysterium: ( Latin for " Hysterical ", or " Anxious ", the suffix "- um " makes the name neuter, and the character's gender is often mistaken throughout the piece ) The chief slave in the house of Senex.

In Ancient Rome, the title of Senex ( Latin for old man ) was only awarded to elderly men with families who had good standing in their village.

David Burns did not return for the film role of Senex, which was played in the film by Michael Hordern.

The new songs included in this production had been added during a 1971 Los Angeles production: " Echo Song " ( sung by Hero and Philia ), and " Farewell " ( added for Nancy Walker playing the role of Domina as she and Senex depart for the country ).

Surprised but game, Senex instructs Philia to wait in the house for him, and she does.

With the ruse thus revealed, the main characters run for their lives, resulting in a madcap chase across the stage with both Miles and Senex pursuing all three " Philia " s ( Domina, Hysterium, and the actual Philia — all wearing identical white robes and veils ).

Philia weds Hero ; Pseudolus gets his freedom and the lovely slave girl Gymnasia ; Gloriosus receives twin courtesans to replace Philia ; Erronius gets his children, and a happy ending prevails for all — except for poor Senex, stuck with his shrewish wife Domina.

The name for the genus Senecio is probably derived from Senex ( an old man ), in reference to its downy head of seeds ; " the flower of this herb hath white hair and when the wind bloweth it away, then it appeareth like a bald-headed man " and like its family, flowers of Senecio vulgaris are succeeded by downy globed heads of seed.

Sir Alan Lascelles used the pen-name " Senex " when writing to The Times in 1950 setting out the so-called Lascelles Principles concerning the monarch's right to refuse a prime minister's request for a general election.

He won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, for his performances as " Mayor Shinn " in The Music Man and as " Senex " in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Hysterium, desperate to keep him out of the house where his master is bathing, tells the old man that his house has become haunted — a story seemingly confirmed by the sound of Senex singing in his bath.

In many books there is a knowing, mystical mentor / teacher, associated with the Jungian archetype of Senex, or wise old man.

" Senex " is a name of a wise old character in the novel A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L ' Engle.

The 1963 production and its 1986 revival were staged at the Strand Theatre and the Piccadilly Theatre respectively, and featured Frankie Howerd starring as Pseudolus, Kenneth Connor as Hysterium, ' Monsewer ' Eddie Gray as Senex, Jon Pertwee as Marcus Lycus and Leon Greene as Miles Gloriosus.

In 1972 there was a critically well-received Broadway revival, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus ( followed later by Tom Poston in the role ), Lew Parker as Senex and Reginald Owen as Erronius.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

The cast featured Richard Kind as Pseudolus, Joel Blum as Senex, Stephen DeRosa as Marcus Lycus, Sean McCall as Hysterium, and Steve Wilson as Miles Gloriosus.

In the center is the house of Senex, who lives there with wife Domina, son Hero, and several slaves, including head slave Hysterium and the musical's main character Pseudolus.

One day, Senex and Domina go on a trip and leave Pseudolus in charge of Hero.

Unexpectedly, Senex returns home early from his trip, and knocks three times on his own door.

Philia comes out of the house, and, thinking that Senex is the Captain, offers herself up to him.

Hysterium arrives to this confusion, and tells Senex that Philia is the new maid that he has hired.

Pseudolus returns, having procured the necessary mare's sweat ; seeing that Senex has returned unexpectedly and grasping the need to keep him out of the way, Pseudolus discreetly sprinkles some of the horse-sweat onto him, then suggests that the road trip has left Senex in dire need of a bath.

Taking the bait, Senex instructs Hysterium to draw him a bath in the long-abandoned house of Erronius.

Complicating matters further, Domina returns from her trip early, suspicious that her husband Senex is " up to something low.

" She disguises herself in virginal white robes and a veil ( much like Philia's ) to try to catch Senex being unfaithful.

* Hero: Young son of Senex who falls in love with the virgin, Philia.

* Marcus Lycus: A purveyor of courtesans, who operates from the house to the left of Senex.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).

The Latin, for example, was not only clear ; ;

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

European alphabets, especially Latin and Cyrillic, have been adapted for many languages of Asia.

The largest alphabets in the narrow sense include Kabardian and Abkhaz ( for Cyrillic ), with 58 and 56 letters, respectively, and Slovak ( for the Latin script ), with 46.

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).