Note 229 — Chapter I · THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGIOUS ORIGIN[223]
Reading edition
Cf. Plautus’ The Casket, vss. 89 f.:
per Dionysia mater pompam me spectatum duxit,
and vss. 156 ff.:
fuere Sicyoni iam diu Dionysia. mercator venit huc ad ludos Lemnius, isque hic compressit virginem, adulescentulus, <vi>, vinulentus, multa nocte, in via.
For the differences between Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy, see p. 39, above.