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Updated: June 11, 2025
Two things marked off the Mimus from the Atellana or national farce; the players appeared without masks, and women were allowed to act. This opened the gates to licentiousness. We find from Cicero that Mimae bore a disreputable character, but from their personal charms and accomplishments often became the chosen companions of the profligate nobles of the day.
It was not only from the lands of the Crown and the manors of earls that bishoprics and monasteries derived their large endowments. Henry I founded the Abbey of Reading, but the mimus of Henry I built the priory and hospital of St. Bartholomew.
These were the names of the persons who at this time enjoyed most of his favour: Roscius the comedian, Sorix the chief mimus, and Metrobius who played women's parts in men's dress, and to whom, though Metrobius was now growing old, Sulla all along continued strongly attached, and never attempted to conceal it.
The qualities of the dog are also expressed in this verse: 'Latrat in ede canis, nat in equore, fulget in astris. Et venit canis originaliter a cano is. So Garland, or his commentator, abridged. Of sal he says: Est sal prelatus, equor, sapientia, mimus, Sal pultes condit, sal est cibus et reprehendit.
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