[ [399] P. 123.

[ [400] P. 45, & 367.

[ [401] P. 45.

[ [402] P. 125.

[ [403] P. 110.

[ [404] No more than he himself was aware. He observes, if, as St. Jerome says, it is a Copy of common Life, for the Improvement of the Audience, it need not be mix'd with Mirth, were it not for the Sake of pleasing them.

[ [405] Vossius takes Care to tell us, that this Definition is suited to the Old Comedy; and gives us others from Camerarius and Jul. Scaliger, that comprehend the New.

[ [406] De Poetica, cap. V.

[ [407] In Poet. Arist. p. 58, 59.

[ [408] L. I. Sat. X. 14.