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The female parts were also played by men, as the voice and general carriage of women would have been inadequate to the energy of tragic heroines. They display both beauty and variety. See the Onomasticon of Jul. Pollux.
Thomas Jack has departed into oblivion along with his Onomasticon: but this record of the friendly reception he and his book met with affords a delightful gleam of light upon the historian's waning days.
"Drill" is used in the same sense in Charleton's "Onomasticon Zoicon," 1668. The head is monstrously big, and the face broad and flat, without any other hair but the eyebrows; the nose very small, the mouth wide, and the lips thin.
A certain Thomas Jack, a schoolmaster in Glasgow, had composed in Latin verse a little book upon the ancient poets, called the Onomasticon Poeticum, and encouraged by the friendship already, as he says, shown to him by Buchanan, carried the book to him for revision. "I found him in the royal palace of Stirling, diligently engaged in writing his History of Scotland.
He is generally identified with Julius Pollux. Published an Onomasticon, or classified vocabulary; cf. Sections 16, 17. Published a collection of declamations, or school rhetorical exercises on set themes; cf. Section 17. Came from Egypt; cf. Section 24; Xois and Thmuis were in that country.
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