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Suétone · Unknown

of wood, made only for the occasion. Hence, even today, the custom remains that scaffolding is set up by the producers of theatrical games. The scene which was made was either revolving or sliding. It was revolving when, suddenly, the whole thing was turned by certain machines and showed another aspect of the painting. It was sliding when, with the panels drawn this way and that, the interior appearance of the painting was uncovered. Whence he skillfully touched upon both, saying: Let it depart with turning fronts: embracing individual things with individual speeches. Which Varro and Suetonius commemorate.
As Suetonius Tranquillus says, the game itself which they commonly call the Pyrrhic a warlike dance is called the Troia Game of Troy: the origin of which he expressed in his book On the Games of Boys.
In the earliest times, as Tranquillus asserts, everything that is done on the stage was acted in comedy. For both the pantomime and the flute-player sang in comedy.
Book on bodily defects. The hirqui inner corners of the eyes are the corners of the eyes, according to Suetonius Tranquillus, in his work On Bodily Defects.