prolŏgus, i, m., = πρόλογος.
I Lit., a preface or introduction to a play , a prologue , Ter. Phorm. 14: in prologis scribundis operā abutitur, id. And. 5: in Hydriae (Menandri) prologo, Quint. 11, 3, 91: in prologo Adelphorum, Suet. Vit. Ter. 2.—
II Transf., the player who delivers the prologue : oratorem esse voluit me, non prologum, Ter. Heaut. 11; id. Hec. 1 (prō-, v. Wagn. ad Ter. Heaut. 11).