Note 724 — Chapter IV · THE DISCOVERY OF MAN. SPIRITUAL DESCRIPTION IN POETRY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Strozzii Poetæ, fol. 232, in the fourth book of the Æolosticha of Tito Strozza. The lines run:
‘Ecce superveniens rerum argumenta retexit Mimus, et ad populum verba diserta refert. Tum similes habitu formaque et voce Menæchmi Dulcibus oblectant lumina nostra modis.’
The Menæchmi was also given at Ferrara in 1486, at the cost of more than 1,000 ducats. Murat. xxiv. 278.