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发帖数: 759 | 1 CHAP. 11.--THAT THE GREEKS ADMITTED PLAYERS TO OFFICES OF
STATE, ON THE GROUND THAT MEN WHO
PLEASED THE GODS SHOULD NOT BE CONTEMPTUOUSLY TREATED BY
THEIR FELLOWS.
It was a part of this same reasonableness of the Greeks
which induced them to bestow upon the actors of these same
plays no inconsiderable civic
honors. In the above-mentioned book of the De Republica, it
is mentioned that 恠chines, a very eloquent Athenian, who
had been a tragic actor in
his youth, became a statesman, and that the Ath |
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