[14] Epigram attributed to Plato.
[15] This history of the three ages of comedy, and their different characters, is taken in part from the valuable fragments of Platonius.
[16] It will be shown, how, and in what sense, this was allowed.
[17] Perhaps the chorus was forbid in the middle age of the comedy. Platonius seems to say so.
[18] Despréaux Art Poét. chant. 8.
[19] The year of Rome 514, the first year of the 135th Olympiad.
[20] Praetextae, Togatae, Tabernariae.
[21] Suet. de Claris Grammat. says, that C. Melissus, librarian to Augustus, was the author of it.
[22] Homer, Odyssey.
[23] Orat. pro Archia Poeta.