histrio

What great and painstaking effort was encompassed in its composition only one can know even partly who has been privileged to "peep behind the scenes" at the "properties of the literary _histrio_" -- the manuscript notes and memoranda, a few of which accompany this volume in facsimile.

The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

_Real-Encyclopadie_, s.v. _histrio_; Warnecke in _Neue

The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

_Real-Encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft_, s.v. _histrio_; Friedlander in Marquardt-Mommsen _Handbuch der romischen

The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

In answer to a question from Hegius, Agricola goes on to distinguish the words mimus, histrio, persona, scurra, nebulo; with quotations from Juvenal and Gellius.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

In any case he was something else to _a much greater degree_ — that is to say, an incomparable _histrio_, the greatest mime, the most astounding theatrical genius that the Germans have ever had, our _scenic artist par excellence_.

The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

_Scena autem, mundus versatilis_: _histrio et actor_

Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Professor Anthon, who quotes this passage, says that _histrio_ "here denotes a buffoon kept for the amusement of the company."

Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

But such is not the meaning of the word _histrio_.

Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

The general name at Rome for an actor was histrio; but the histrio is also contrasted by Cicero (_Pro Q. Roscio_, c. 10) with the comœdus, as the inferior compared with the higher professor of the art.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839

Certes, some man who understood the stage must have put the incidents together, and then left it to each illiterate histrio to find the words,

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838