cuius decora pernicitas vetusto ex more Curetum Lydorumque, a quibus Tusci originem traxerunt, novitate grata Romanorum oculos permulsit, et quia ludius apud eos ister appellabatur, scaenico nomen histrionis inditum est.
His graceful agility, after the ancient manner of the Curetes and Lydians from whom the Tuscans drew their origin, charmed the eyes of the Romans with its welcome novelty; and because a dancer was called ister in Etruria, the name of histriones was given to actors.
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