Cistellaria is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus.
The play was adapted from a lost comedy by Menander called Synaristosai ("The Women Who Lunched Together").
The same passage mentions "your allies old and new", which may be a reference to the treaty of alliance made with the Aetolian League in 209.
However, it is not thought that the act-divisions go back to Plautus's time, since no manuscript contains them before the 15th century.
[3] Also, the acts themselves do not always match the structure of the plays, which is often more clearly shown by the variation in metres.