[1036]. Poll. iv. 118.
[1037]. It behoved the actors, however, to take care of their gold and jewels, since it would appear that thieves found their way even to the stage.—Aristoph. Acharn. 258.
[1038]. Poll. iv. 118.
[1039]. Dion. Chrysost. i. 231. Scalig. Poet. i. 13.
[1040]. Poll. iv. 119, sqq.
[1041]. Scalig. Poet. i. 13.
[1042]. When actors displeased the audience they were sometimes compelled to take off their masks and face those who hissed them, which was regarded as a serious punishment. Duport. ad Theoph. Char. p. 308. We ought, perhaps, to understand Lucian cum grano, when he informs us that actors who performed their parts ill were scourged. Piscator, § 33. On the derivation of the word persona, Aul. Gell. v. 7. Cf. Aristoph. Poet. c. 5. Scalig. Poet. i. 13, on the derivation of πρόσωπον. Etym. Mag. 691. 1.
[1043]. Vid. Cassiod. iv. 51. Plin. xlvii. 10. Solin. cxxxvii. Lucian. de Saltat. § 27. De Gymnast. § 23. A tragic poet, Hieronymos, exposed himself to ridicule by introducing into one of his pieces a mask of frightful aspect. Aristoph. Acharn. 390.
[1044]. Cf. Suid. v. φλοιός. t. ii. p. 1073. Diog. Laert. iv. p. 27.
[1045]. Plin. xxxvii. 56.