[ [389] Poet. L. I. c. 9.
[ [390] Inst. Poet. L. II. c. 5.
[ [391] Auctio Davisiana.
[ [392] Poet. L. I. c. 9.
[ [393] Περι ὑψουϛ, c. V.
[ [394] As to the prior Antiquity of Comedy or Tragedy, History must be our only Guide; for I think it cannot be suppos'd that either of them existed, before Mankind knew what State and Magnificence was. Both had their Rise from the Songs at the Feasts of Bacchus. Susarion is said to be the Inventor of the first, and Thespis of the latter. So Marm. Arundel. &c. And yet Horace says, Successit vetus his Comœdia, having spoken before of Tragedy and Satire; which is reconcil'd by supposing Epicharmus (who liv'd later than Thespis) the Inventor of Comedy in Horace's Judgment, because he was the first Writer of it. See Bentley's Answer to Boyle, p. 238, 199, 200.
[ [395] Lib. I. Sat. IV. ℣ 1.
[ [396] ℣ 281.
[ [397] Inst. L. II. c. 27. p. 139, 140.
[ [398] Poetic. L.I. c. V. p. 27.