and vss. 156 ff.:
fuere Sicyoni iam diu Dionysia.
mercator venit huc ad ludos Lemnius,
isque hic compressit virginem, adulescentulus,
<vi>, vinulentus, multa nocte, in via.
For the differences between Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy, see [p. 39], above.
[230] Cf. his Preface to Bajazet.
[231] Cf. Ribbeck, Rheinisches Museum, XXX (1875), 145.
[232] Cf. Aristotle’s Poetics 1456a6 and 1453a19.
[233] Cf. ibid., 1451b25.