Ismael; an oriental tale. With other poems

Note 17 — PARNASSUS[15];

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Æschylus, who may, I think, be called the Father of Tragedy, although Thespis was the first inventor of it.

Ignotum Tragicæ genus invenisse Camænæ, Dicitur, et plaustris vexisse poëmata Thespis, Quæ canerent agerentque peruncti fæcibus ora. Post hunc, personæ pallæque repertor honestæ Æschylus, et modicis instravit pulpita tignis, Et docuit magnumque loqui, nitique cothurno.”—Hor.

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