Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

The line encapsulates a recurrent Plautine mood: conviviality as social glue, where pleasure is doubled by both drink (“wine”) and language (“sweet words”). In Plautus’s comedies, feasting and verbal wit often go together—banquets, toasts, flirtation, and persuasive speech are arenas where characters negotiate status, desire, and reconciliation. Read broadly, the quote suggests that celebration is not only material but rhetorical: goodwill is performed through gracious talk as much as through shared consumption. It also hints at the comic ideal of easing tension through convivial pleasures and charming speech, a hallmark of Roman stage comedy.