[953]. Plut. de Aud. Poet. § 3. Plat. de Rep. t. vi. pp. 125–127. This philosopher, it is clear, entertained a less elevated idea of art than some modern writers, who define it as follows: “Art is a representation (μίμησις), i. e. an energy by means of which a subject becomes an object,”—(Müller, cited by Mr. Donaldson, Theatre of the Greeks, p. 4,)—in other words, by which a nominative becomes an accusative.
[954]. Mus. Cortonens. tab. 60.
[955]. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 548.
[956]. See the figure of Alexandria in the Gemme Antiche Figurate of Agostini.
[957]. Poll. iv. 142.
[958]. Vid. Schol. Aristoph. Nub. 289. 343. 442.
[959]. Poll. iv. 141, seq.
[960]. De Rep. t. vi. p. 125.
[961]. Sch. Aristoph. Eq. 150.
[962]. Athen. x. 33.