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Show (20 The like providence had they for the The atre.. No(b) Poér under the age of 3o0r 4 years wasallow'd to prefent any Play to b alted. Seldens Marmora, and other Chronologers inform us thac 4e/chylus had th victory, when he was 40 years old; An Euripides not till he was 43. The dramatick Poet was ftyled Comedodidafialusy an Tragadodidafiulus, as one fhould fay, Co medy-dottor an Tragedy-doitor W fin too the Word didafcalia, with the Titles o | ;fl@'flm L‘.:‘( ll‘c «t KL" ] ‘r jif "' | 10anr hasig hag cone' ervi g 4 [ f .?, r d. W L b (0 Terence's Comedies; which afterwards th Latins came to imitate, as Cicero in Brat Livius qu primus fabulam Docuit; And Hor --=-vel qui Docnere Tooates So to Write Play, in the opinion of 4riffophanes,.C omoac-didafealia, isof all things the moft difficulr Viore(c)ot their publick money was {pen about the Chorus, and other charges and de corations of their Theatre, than in all thei Wars with the Kings of Per/ia Ani when broughtto theirlaftextremity thatno other Bank remain'd for them,wherewithto carry ona War,wichout which Wa they could not longer expe& to be a Peo ple, the delicate turn us'd by Demofthenes in ftarting the motion ; for applying thi Theatre-mone -to the War, is obferv'd as (d ) Mafterpiece of addrefs by the Orators Did I fa (quoth Demofthenes (b) Sehol, Arifto Opyn. 1 the The (c) Demitr, Libaniys atre Patrog) WEIE 1 1) t A gp \n‘)hi? |