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Archaologid Attic<e Lih. "h.Cap.ll. 89
With more plaies then one. Mos cutem. Itagiamm Gr<eco-
tum fuit Axhenis, ut tnedo fmgulii cemmittertm sabidas, mode
plureJjsaies * Cafaubm: Sometime in the sameyearc three, z. DeSatyrics
and then was it called 7sihoyia: sometime soure,& then they Poei1 P-1?*-
fliled it Tt7s «A.o?/«,* Ttf $ 'AtIa^ Ag^^Ttt Iz&hH-n T E T P A- ,, . $
AoriA. Whereos.saies mint Author3the sourth was a Saty- ciu^
ricall play,the three others now treating os the sortunes os
one and the same man,as those os ALsckylus.mmedtheresore
Orejlia} to wit, AjasAy-vtv. Xentpi&i. zvs&t'isa. Which are all
extantjthe fourth was Proteus Satyricut. At other times they
were not of the lame subjeft , as that os Erisides. Medea.
Phikdetes. Visiys.Tke sourth was OseW , saies the Author
of the argument to Medea. Where the interpreter seems to
me not to reach to the expression os the Greek word ©s«sa.i,
ScLrjt&iMessores, Saiyros; he ought to have rendredit thus,
Mejsores > ■DrammaSatyricm. For that the word bears this
sence-is sufficiently dilucidated by c Cafauben That the grea- ^ ^ ^
lest ta»k os a&ion lay on rheChow,is as apparent as the Sun
atnoone. The number os them in Comcedies were twenty
foure,and six jttga (each )ugum consisting os soure; but sct^t
soure.each soix@~ ljx men)in Tragedies sisty;untill the time
os Acetyl k his Eumenides, the number os which fo terrified
the People^ that the children and younger sort sainted; and c Author vi-
the women sussered aborrion;sor which reafon, faies Pollux.'txMchyh.
the number was lesfened ( which some deny) by law. They
were by the A ^brought to sisicene, fjyej»g«: I say i«g<>,be-
caufe they were divided into s^'xas> & (vyi. Zvjv was when
the Chorus entred by three3& then it was called fotf
#./©-,by rile2T!)7@-5VPh?n they came on the stage kj ranke,
sive at a time;Sk this they terme ^ sofpguft. Sometime one os
them entred alone, which they fay j^8 %v&. Os interlocutor!
the ancients sor the moft part never had above threejbut if a
sourth spake, that they named <®^a^«pHjij|u*;and if the Chorus
supplied the part of a sourth aftor, it was ftiled 4\j)-T/.bmov.
To (peak os the feverall vei ses os Tragccdies, is aSum agere^
M and
With more plaies then one. Mos cutem. Itagiamm Gr<eco-
tum fuit Axhenis, ut tnedo fmgulii cemmittertm sabidas, mode
plureJjsaies * Cafaubm: Sometime in the sameyearc three, z. DeSatyrics
and then was it called 7sihoyia: sometime soure,& then they Poei1 P-1?*-
fliled it Tt7s «A.o?/«,* Ttf $ 'AtIa^ Ag^^Ttt Iz&hH-n T E T P A- ,, . $
AoriA. Whereos.saies mint Author3the sourth was a Saty- ciu^
ricall play,the three others now treating os the sortunes os
one and the same man,as those os ALsckylus.mmedtheresore
Orejlia} to wit, AjasAy-vtv. Xentpi&i. zvs&t'isa. Which are all
extantjthe fourth was Proteus Satyricut. At other times they
were not of the lame subjeft , as that os Erisides. Medea.
Phikdetes. Visiys.Tke sourth was OseW , saies the Author
of the argument to Medea. Where the interpreter seems to
me not to reach to the expression os the Greek word ©s«sa.i,
ScLrjt&iMessores, Saiyros; he ought to have rendredit thus,
Mejsores > ■DrammaSatyricm. For that the word bears this
sence-is sufficiently dilucidated by c Cafauben That the grea- ^ ^ ^
lest ta»k os a&ion lay on rheChow,is as apparent as the Sun
atnoone. The number os them in Comcedies were twenty
foure,and six jttga (each )ugum consisting os soure; but sct^t
soure.each soix@~ ljx men)in Tragedies sisty;untill the time
os Acetyl k his Eumenides, the number os which fo terrified
the People^ that the children and younger sort sainted; and c Author vi-
the women sussered aborrion;sor which reafon, faies Pollux.'txMchyh.
the number was lesfened ( which some deny) by law. They
were by the A ^brought to sisicene, fjyej»g«: I say i«g<>,be-
caufe they were divided into s^'xas> & (vyi. Zvjv was when
the Chorus entred by three3& then it was called fotf
#./©-,by rile2T!)7@-5VPh?n they came on the stage kj ranke,
sive at a time;Sk this they terme ^ sofpguft. Sometime one os
them entred alone, which they fay j^8 %v&. Os interlocutor!
the ancients sor the moft part never had above threejbut if a
sourth spake, that they named <®^a^«pHjij|u*;and if the Chorus
supplied the part of a sourth aftor, it was ftiled 4\j)-T/.bmov.
To (peak os the feverall vei ses os Tragccdies, is aSum agere^
M and