School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ionysus. [Dionysia.] Now as the Greekdrama arose out of these festivals, it is highlyprobable that some mode of disguising the PES. 283 face was as old as the drama itself. Choe-rilus of Samos, however, (about b. c. .500)is said to have been the first who introducedregular masks. Other writers attribute theinvention of masks to Thespis or Aeschylus,though the latter had probably only themerit of perfecting and completing thewhole theatrical apparatus and masks covered, like the masks of mo-dern times, only the face, but they appea
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ionysus. [Dionysia.] Now as the Greekdrama arose out of these festivals, it is highlyprobable that some mode of disguising the PES. 283 face was as old as the drama itself. Choe-rilus of Samos, however, (about b. c. .500)is said to have been the first who introducedregular masks. Other writers attribute theinvention of masks to Thespis or Aeschylus,though the latter had probably only themerit of perfecting and completing thewhole theatrical apparatus and masks covered, like the masks of mo-dern times, only the face, but they appearmore generally to have covered the wholehead down to the shoulders, for we alwaysfind the hair belonging to a mask de-scribed as being a part of it; and this musthave been the case in tragedy more espe-cially, as it was necessary to make the headcorrespond to the stature of an actor,which was heightened by the cothurnus. The annexed cut represents the grotesquemask of a Satyr, together with a tragicmask, which are contained in the , MASKa. PES (TToyy), a foot. The Greeks andRomans, like most other nations, took theirstandards of length originally from the dif-ferent parts of the human body, and thenames which were thus given to the mea-sures were retained after the measures them-selves had been determined with greaternicety. The probable value of the Roman foot is11^-1496 inches English. 284 PES. The following tables exhibit the Romanmeasures of length, with their values inEnglish feet and inchds: — Inches. •7281 •9708 2-9124 11 •6-196 2 •.5620 5-4744 Inches. ] 1 •64965- 124 10^ 2488- 4965- 952 1. Ordinary Measures. Pedes. Feet. Digitus 15 )» Uncia 1Vi jj Palm us )» Pes . 1 j» Palmipes . l\ 1 Cubitus . H 1 2. Land Aleasures. Pes . GradusPassusDecempedaActus .Mille or Milliarium } Pedes. Yards. Ft. 1 » 55 2h j» 2 5 1 1 10 3 ?j 120 38 2 5000 1618 j» The Greek foot was probably equal to1^01125 English feet, or inches. The
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