A History of Roman Classical Literature.

by R. W. Browne

[165]. Ep. ad Pison. 202.

[166]. From Tzur, צוֹר.

[167]. Colman illustrates the preface to his translation of Terence with an engraving from a bas-relief in the Farnese Palace, in which these flutes are introduced. The original represents a scene in the Andria, and contains Simo, Davus, Chremes, and Dromo, with a knotted cord.

[168]. I. O. ii. 10.

[169]. Donatus says, “Diverbia (the dialogues) histriones pronuntiabant; cantica (the soliloquies) vero temperabantur modis non a poetâ sed a perito artis musicæ factis.”

[170]. Cic. de Orat. iii. 45.

[171]. Ibid. 41.

[172]. Phorm. Prol. 18; Ecl. iii. 96.

[173]. A. U. C. 527; B. C. 227.

[174]. A. U. C. 570; B. C. 184. See Cic. Brut. 15.