Cuius usum aput anticos quoque Graecos fuisse apparet, quod in tragoediis senes ab hac pelle vocantur diphtheriae et in comoediis qui in rustico opere morantur, ut aput Caecilium in Hypobolimaeo habet adulescens, aput Terentium in Heautontimorumeno senex.
That this usage obtained among the ancient Greeks also is evident from the fact that the old men who appear in the tragedies get their name of diphtheriae from the goat skin, and in the comedies those who are engaged in rustic labour, such as the young man in Caeciliuss Hypobolimaeus, and the old man in Terences Heautontimorumenos.
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