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The attention given to the acoustic arrangements of the Greeks may be inferred from Vitruv. v. 5, 8. H. N. xxxv. 4, 23; Val. Among the few minor poems preserved from this epoch there occurs the following epigram on this illustrious actor: -Constiteram, exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur.
It is on the actor Roscius, who, when a boy, was renowned for his beauty, and is favourably compared with the rising orb of day: "Constiteram exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito e laeva Roscius exoritur. Pace mihi liceat, caelestes, dicere vestra: Mortalis visust pulcrior esse deo." This piece, as may be supposed, has met with imitators both in French and Italian literature.
"Infelix ego, non illo qui tempore natus, Quo facilis natura fuit; sors O mea laeva Nascendi, miserumque genus!" &c. but we now see that unless Mr. Andrew Becket had also been produced at that early period, we should have derived no extraordinary degree of satisfaction from witnessing the first appearance of Shakespeare's plays, since it is quite clear that we could not have understood them.
The attention given to the acoustic arrangements of the Greeks may be inferred from Vitruv. v. 5, 8. H. N. xxxv. 4, 23; Val. Among the few minor poems preserved from this epoch there occurs the following epigram on this illustrious actor: -Constiteram, exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur.
And feeling that our ways were now divided, he continued: Hie locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas. Dextera, quae Ditis magni sub moenia tendit Hac iter Elysium nobis; at laeva malorum Exercet poenas et ad impia Tartara mittit. "I cannot kill myself at present, but as soon as I feel able I shall do so."
Amastri Pontica et Cytore buxifer, Tibi haec fuisse et esse cognitissima Ait phaselus: ultima ex origine Tuo stetisse dicit in cacumine, Tuo imbuisse palmulas in aequore, Et inde tot per inpotentia freta Erum tulisse, laeva sive dextera Vocaret aura, sive utrumque Iuppiter Simul secundus incidisset in pedem; Neque ulla vota litoralibus deis Sibi esse facta, cum veniret a mari Novissimo hunc ad usque limpidum lacum.