A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

[115]. Ep. II. i. 69.

[116]. Liv. vii. 2.

[117]. Brut. 72.

[118]. B. C. 240.

[119]. Noct. Att. See also Quinct. I. O. x. 2, 7.

[120]. See Bothe, Poetæ Scen. Roman. Trag.

[121]. For the slight differences between a Greek and Roman theatre, the reader is referred to Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities, sub voce.

[122]. Ep. ad Fam. vii. 1.

[123]. Roman critics divide comedy into Comœdia Palliata, in which the characters, and therefore the costume, were Greek; and Togata, in which they were Roman. Comœdia Togata was again subdivided into Trabeata, or genteel comedy, and Tabernaria, or low comedy. The Fabulæ Prætextatæ were historical plays, like those of Shakspeare.

[124]. Klussman, Frag. Næv.