14/38 The Octavia, ascribed to one of the Senecas, still remains a very unfavorable specimen of Roman tragedy.] [Footnote 63: In the time of Quintilian and Pliny, a tragic poet was reduced to the imperfect method of hiring a great room, and reading his play to the company, whom he invited for that purpose. de Oratoribus, c. 9, 11, and Plin.Epistol.vii. 17.)] [Footnote 64: See the dialogue of Lucian, entitled the Saltatione, tom. |