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of feminine vocal tones, unless another jest is intended, is indicated<br />
by Rud. 233 :<br />
Certe vox muliebris auris tetigit meas.<br />
And Quintilian admonishes the youth who is taking lessons from<br />
a comic actor in voice-production not to carry his precepts so far<br />
as to imitate the female falsetto, the senile tremolo, the obsequiousness<br />
of the slave, the stuttering accents of intoxication or the<br />
intonations of love, greed, fear.94<br />
<strong>IN</strong>here Donatus gives instructions as to the vocal expression with<br />
which certain lines are to be delivered, as in the case of his comments<br />
on gesture, they are almost painfully evident from the context.<br />
He cites for instance irony,95 anger,96 exhaustion,97 amaze-·<br />
ment,98 sympathy,99 pity.loO He appears as the lineal ancestor of<br />
the modern "coach" of amateur theatricals in somewhat naively<br />
remarking101 that upon leaving Thais for two days, Phaedria must<br />
pronounce "two days" as if "two years" were written.<br />
Another phase of the delivery of the dialogue that deserves<br />
passing mention is song and musical accompaniment. Livy's<br />
anecdote102 of the employment by Livius Andronicus of a boy to<br />
sing for him while he gesticulated is almost universally accepted as<br />
as exceptional instance, prompted by the failing of Livius' voice<br />
through age.I03 We are now fairly well informed of the tripartite<br />
division of the dialogue into canticum or song proper, recitative,<br />
and diverbium or spoken utterance,I04 with the incidental accompaniment<br />
of the tibia. Though there may be some dispute as tJ<br />
941. 11.1-2 .<br />
95Donat. ad And. 505, Eun. 224, 288, 403, Ad. 187, 395.<br />
"A d And. 194, 301, Eun. 467, 986, Hee. 98, 439, 640, Ad. IOI. Cf. Ad. 96:<br />
cum admiratione indignantis ; 97 : intento digito et infestis in Micionem oculis.<br />
97Ad Eun. 1055.<br />
9sAd And. 633, Eun. 233, 451, Hee. 63, Ad. 259.<br />
'9Ad Pharo 145.<br />
looAd Ad. 200.<br />
IOIAd Eun. 187. I02VII. 2.8-1 0.<br />
]03Cf. Diom. 49 1. 23 ff., K; Ribbeck, Rom. Trag. p. 634, believes that this<br />
was the rule, but he is apparently alone in the opinion. Cf. Bodensteiner<br />
in Bursian's Jahresberieht CVI, p. 162 ff., who agrees with the proof of van<br />
Eck, Quaest. Seen. Rom. (Amsterdam 1892), that it was an isolated instance.<br />
IO' We are not even remotely concerned with metrical analysis. For that<br />
phase, with a discussion as to the effect of the various metrical systems, see<br />
Klotz, Grundzuge der altromisehen Metrik, esp. p. 370 ff. Cf. Duff, A Lit. Hist.<br />
of Rome, p. 196. Note Donat. de Com. VIII. 9 and Dioffi. 49 1.23 K.<br />
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