Note 1042 — Chapter VIII · THEATRE (continued).

When actors displeased the audience they were sometimes compelled to take off their masks and face those who hissed them, which was regarded as a serious punishment. Duport. ad Theoph. Char. p. 308. We ought, perhaps, to understand Lucian cum grano, when he informs us that actors who performed their parts ill were scourged. Piscator, § 33. On the derivation of the word persona, Aul. Gell. v. 7. Cf. Aristoph. Poet. c. 5. Scalig. Poet. i. 13, on the derivation of πρόσωπον. Etym. Mag. 691. 1.