Note 137 — THE ART OF PAINTING;

“Aristotle, in the place referred to, (περι ποιητ. κ. μς.) does not mention any third dramatic poet by name. He does indeed put the case of a third poet, who might pursue a method different from the practice either of Sophocles or Euripides, and represent things as they are said, and believed, to be. In the same passage, (which is manifestly corrupt,) he mentions an observation of Xenophanes, who, I believe, was the person here in our author’s thoughts.”—Malone.