Note 9 — Chapter I · THE FALL OF THE THEATRES
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Incerti (fourth century) ad Terentium (ed. Giles, i. xix) ‘mimos ab diuturna imitatione vilium rerum et levium personarum.’ Diomedes (fifth century), Ars Grammatica, iii. 488 ‘mimus est sermonis cuiuslibet imitatio et motus sine reverentia, vel factorum et dictorum turpium cum lascivia imitatio.’