. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fie. 312. they also used to pad their limbs. The remainder of the actorscostumes was also to a great extent borrowed from the Dionysianfeast, both with regard to shape and actors wore chitones and himatia oflight colour richly embroidered, and em-bellished by brilliant gold ornaments. Incomedy the dress of daily life was essentiallyreproduced, with the difference, however, thatthe old comedy caricatured this dress byattaching to it the frequently indecent em-blems of Dionysian worship, while thelater comedy retained the caricatured mask, but d
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fie. 312. they also used to pad their limbs. The remainder of the actorscostumes was also to a great extent borrowed from the Dionysianfeast, both with regard to shape and actors wore chitones and himatia oflight colour richly embroidered, and em-bellished by brilliant gold ornaments. Incomedy the dress of daily life was essentiallyreproduced, with the difference, however, thatthe old comedy caricatured this dress byattaching to it the frequently indecent em-blems of Dionysian worship, while thelater comedy retained the caricatured mask, but discontinued thegrotesque costume of older times. The monuments contain only
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