Metaque fervidis Evitata rotis. Horat. Od. i. 1. i.
The goal shunn'd by the burning wheels.
—Trans.
Ignotum tragicæ genus invenisse camœnæ
Dicitur, et plaustris vexisse poëmata Thespis,
Quæ canerent agerentque peruncti fæcibus ora.
Hor. de Art. Poët.
When Thespis first expos'd the tragic Muse,
Rude were the actors, and a cart the scene,
Where ghastly faces, smear'd with lees of wine,
Frighted the children, and amus'd the crowd.
Roscom. Art of Poet.
—Trans.
Post hunc personæ pallæque repertor honestæ
Æschylus, et modicis instravit pulpita tignis,
Et docuit magnumque loqui, nitique cothurno.
Hor. de Art. Poët.