Possible Clues:

• Roman comic dramatist
• Inspiration for 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'
• Playwright who inspired 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'
• Author not half enthralled by positive Roman writer of old
• Roman dramatist, forerunner of preterite tense in usual works
• Dramatist set to entertain Los Angeles, then the whole of America
• Usual small part revised by playwright
• Roman comic dramatist, two hundred BC
• Dramatist in Latin American city entering place to west
• Comic Roman dramatist