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In comedy, on the other hand, over and
above the methods adopted to distinguish between
slaves, pimps, parasites, rustics, soldiers, harlots,
maidservants, old men stern and mild, youths moral
or luxurious, married women and girls, we have
the important rôle of the father who, because at
times he is excited and at others call, has one
eyebrow raised and the other normal, the custom
among actors being to turn that side of the face to
the audience which best suits the role.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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