6B Archaologis Attic£ Lib. 2. Cap. it?
&es cals ir^^m lv wax/a/;,the mosl excellent first,thenexE
tohim second3and nexc to bim third ( which was no (inall
.praise,accoiding to that os §>uin\ilian3&$ I remember, Htne-
stum eft in sictth&it tertiisve conststere) and no other. For
which cause I stippose the Poets before reciting, were wohC
to sacrifice, and pray sor the favour os the Judges and fpe-
arXocolaud. Gators, r AriHophan.
■ O^ru/x am TXTois ■moivtx.lsv -7B«V-»pssout,
%<u to!{ btalcut mm - - Where the Scholiasl interprets
osiWsu truly as it is to be underftood, iu^^utt) to (upplicatc
AKid good reason.For is they pleaftd not the people in red-
J,Rsnisp.248 cing.they were overwhelmed with ssones.To which ufe ** A-
vistoyhanes points}saying - in e/SaMe™; nay sometime would
shey hisse them3 which they terme nha^mr & cveirl^r, fome-
time ssamp them out os the Theater3whicfi they call afcs
t Lib,6.c. ip. xflK&vJby ' Pollux interpretedAMx\& r ur}is»ia( wmtsfet*, Ano»
p.20?. ther disserence is thatu the Comick Judges were puniflied is
cosf-n cte5 ^ judged not right,the Tragkk not fo. And sor these rea-
&$K$>9%~ ^ons nave some con je&ured,nay pofitively written,that their
Judges were of two lorts, old and new, in which matter, is
there be place sor a conjefturejmine i», that they cofounded
bothjniaking no odds between the Critick Judges of Tra-
gcedies and Gomcedie?.But of this. Reader, you may deter-
mine as your Authors (hall asford authority. Before Judges,
p 1 said, the Poets in emulation prefented their labours,and
*He!ntfius they who in their opinion loft the day.were faid * i%mv%Vi
Prokgom {jy Cafattbon interpreted mn flare. The time of exhibiting
iScSac.Poeii. ^ejr jMgxAitijNtte the holy daies of Bacchus called Diony-
fia in agris,or Lemajn the month Fofideen,on the Anihcsierias
or Disdain Lymnk, in the month Anlheficrien, on Diony-
fia in urbe in the month ElafheboUon, to which I find added
jPlatonep. the ?ana\hen*a by Ihralylus iny Laerims, which fome deny,
yet the fame write that when Sophocles exhibited but one3"n)
was at this feftivalU fay but one, becaufe it was a cuftome
among the Ports os ancient dates to cntcrtaioe their people
' witfa
,220.
&es cals ir^^m lv wax/a/;,the mosl excellent first,thenexE
tohim second3and nexc to bim third ( which was no (inall
.praise,accoiding to that os §>uin\ilian3&$ I remember, Htne-
stum eft in sictth&it tertiisve conststere) and no other. For
which cause I stippose the Poets before reciting, were wohC
to sacrifice, and pray sor the favour os the Judges and fpe-
arXocolaud. Gators, r AriHophan.
■ O^ru/x am TXTois ■moivtx.lsv -7B«V-»pssout,
%<u to!{ btalcut mm - - Where the Scholiasl interprets
osiWsu truly as it is to be underftood, iu^^utt) to (upplicatc
AKid good reason.For is they pleaftd not the people in red-
J,Rsnisp.248 cing.they were overwhelmed with ssones.To which ufe ** A-
vistoyhanes points}saying - in e/SaMe™; nay sometime would
shey hisse them3 which they terme nha^mr & cveirl^r, fome-
time ssamp them out os the Theater3whicfi they call afcs
t Lib,6.c. ip. xflK&vJby ' Pollux interpretedAMx\& r ur}is»ia( wmtsfet*, Ano»
p.20?. ther disserence is thatu the Comick Judges were puniflied is
cosf-n cte5 ^ judged not right,the Tragkk not fo. And sor these rea-
&$K$>9%~ ^ons nave some con je&ured,nay pofitively written,that their
Judges were of two lorts, old and new, in which matter, is
there be place sor a conjefturejmine i», that they cofounded
bothjniaking no odds between the Critick Judges of Tra-
gcedies and Gomcedie?.But of this. Reader, you may deter-
mine as your Authors (hall asford authority. Before Judges,
p 1 said, the Poets in emulation prefented their labours,and
*He!ntfius they who in their opinion loft the day.were faid * i%mv%Vi
Prokgom {jy Cafattbon interpreted mn flare. The time of exhibiting
iScSac.Poeii. ^ejr jMgxAitijNtte the holy daies of Bacchus called Diony-
fia in agris,or Lemajn the month Fofideen,on the Anihcsierias
or Disdain Lymnk, in the month Anlheficrien, on Diony-
fia in urbe in the month ElafheboUon, to which I find added
jPlatonep. the ?ana\hen*a by Ihralylus iny Laerims, which fome deny,
yet the fame write that when Sophocles exhibited but one3"n)
was at this feftivalU fay but one, becaufe it was a cuftome
among the Ports os ancient dates to cntcrtaioe their people
' witfa
,220.