kai oude kata anthropon physin+.
"We see therefore what strange Eyebrows there are to the Masks used in_
Menander_'s Comedies; and how the _Body_ is distorted, and unlike
any human Creature alive." But the Author, 'tis evident, is speaking
abstractedly of _Masks_; and what Reference has the _Distortion_ of the
_Body_ to the Look of a _Visor_? I am satisfied, _Platonius_ wrote; +kai
hopos exestrammenon to OMMA+, _i.e._ "and how the _Eyes_ were _goggled_
and _distorted_." This is to the Purpose of his Subject: and _Jul.
Pollux_, in describing the Comic Masques, speaks of some that had
+STREBLON to OMMA+: Others, that were +DIASTROPHOI ten OPSIN+.
PERVERSIS _oculis_, as _Cicero_ calls them, speaking of _Roscius_.
[Sidenote: _Camerarius_ and _Keuster_, mistaken.]
III. _Suidas_, in the short Account that he has given us of
_Sophocles_, tells us, that, besides Dramatic Pieces, he wrote
Hymns and Elegies; +kai logon katalogaden peri tou Chorou pros
Thespin kai Choirilon agonizomenos+. This the Learned _Camerarius_
has thus translated: _Scripsit Oratione soluta de _Choro_ contra
_Thespin_ & _Choerilum_ quempiam._ And _Keuster_ likewise
understood, and render'd, the Passage to the same Effect. He
owns, the Place is obscure, and suspected by him. "For how could
_Sophocles_ contend with _Thespis_ and _Choerilus_, who liv'd long
before his Time?" The Scholiast upon [C]_Aristophanes_, however,
expresly says, as _Keuster_ might have remember'd, that _Sophocles_
actually did contend with _Choerilus_.
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