which has likewife efcaped the Notice of the
Learned. The Author is faying, that, in the
eld Comedy, the Masks were made fo nearly
to refemble the Perfons to be fatirized, that
before the Actor fpoke a Word, it was known
whom he was to perfonate. But, in the New
Comedy, when Athens was conquered by the
Macedonians, and the Poets were fearful left
their Masks fhould be construed to resemble
any of their New Governors, they formed
them fo prepofterously as only to move Laugh-
ter ; ὁρῶμα τῶν (fays He) τὰς ὀφοὺς ἐν τοῖς
προσώποις * Μενάνδρα κωμωδίας όποιας έχει, κ
ὅπως ἐξετραμμλίον τὸ ΣΩΜΑ, καὶ ἐδὲ καὶ αν
θρώπων φύσιν. "We fee therefore what frange
"Eyebrows there are to the Masks ufed in Me-
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torted, and unlike any human Creature alive."
But the Author, 'tis evident, is fpeaking ab-
ftractedly of Masks; and what Reference i as
the Distortion of the Body to the Look of a
Vifor? I am fatisfied, Platonius wrote; ws
ὄξετραμμδύον τὸ ὌΜΜΑ, i. e, and how
"OMMA, e.
"the Eyes were goggled and diftorted." This
is to the Purpofe of his Subject: and Jul.
Pollux, in defcribing the Comic Mafques,
fpeaks of fome that had ΣΤΡΕΒΛΟΝ τὸ
OMMA Others, that were AIAETPO-
ΦΟΙ * ὌΨΙΝ. PERVERSIS oculis, as

Cicero calls them, fpeaking of Rofcius..
III. Suidas, in the fhort Account that
has given us of Sophocles, tells us, that, be- rius and

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Keufter,

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Meurfius, and Camerarius

fides Dramatic Pieces, he wrote Hymns and
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Day
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Cameraris has thus tranflated:

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and fufpected by him. For how could So 391, 107 2 Hooddod phocles content with Thefpis and Chorilus, who 'd long before his Time?" The SchoHaft upon * Aristophanes, however, exprefly fays, as Ketter might have remember'd, that echi Sophocles actually did contend with Charitus, But that is a Point nothing to the Paffage in Question; which means, as I have thewn in another Place, That Sophocles declaim'd in Profe, contending to obtain a Chorus for reviving fome Pieces of Therpis and Cheerilus. Is This contending against Them, as rival T-E10552 Poetsbor

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which This is grounded, we have from the
Adib 1991
Argument prefix'd to Antigone by Ariftophanes
the Grammarian: and the Latin Tranflavor, of
this Argument, probably led Father Brumay
into his Mistake, and he thould have referr'd
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Sir George VI, Sir George helen, who, in his I Jou corrected. NEY into GREECE, has traded much with -ig w Greek Antiquities and Infcriptions, and who nut pri q certainly was no mean Scholar, has hewn bines himself very careless in this Refpect. When he was at Sardis, he met with a Medal of the Emperor Commodus feated in the Midft of the Zodiack with Celestial Signs engraven on if and, on the other side, a Figure whe Crown-Mure with these Letters abou with a thefe Letters about it, sar δις Ασίας, ΑΥΔΙΑΣ, Ελλαδα, ο μητροπο Aus: Sardis, the first Metropolis of Afia, Greece, Srdie and Audia. -- -- But But where and what Audia was, (Jays He) I find not. Now is it very strange, that this Gentleman should not -6sovyso remember, that Sardis was the Capital City that this was of Lydia; and, confequently, that for A TDa AIAS we thould read ATATA E Thomy OTSP Correction is too obvious to want any Justification, yet, I find, it has One from the + In his Learned Father † Harduin, who produces anoNummi ther Coin Sardis French King's Ca Antiqat bears very fame Infcription, illuftrati. only exhibited as it ought to be,

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corrupt Condition. Tho' I have never been
in Greece, nor feen the Infcriptions any where
but in b Book, I think, I can feltore them
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