...hero, almost four hundred years after he had left it 18 . Nothin'g could give the people more^pleasure than this event. To commemorate it, they instituted...Sophocles, then a young man, brought his first piece on the theatre ; and Aphepsion the archon, perceiving that the audience were prejudiced and in parties,...

...and carried them to the ancient scat of that hero almost four hundred years after he had left itf. Nothing could give the people more pleasure than this...the archon, perceiving that the audience were not •Hnprejudiced, did not appoint the judges by lot in the usual manner. Tlie method he took was this:...

...and carried them to tbe ancient seat of that hero, almost four hundred years after he had left it.t Nothing could give the people more pleasure than this event. To commemorate it, they instituted game?, in which the tragic poets were to try their skill ; and the dispute was very remarkable. Sophoclesv...

...magistracy, Ol. Ixxvii. 4,., he represents this conveyance of Theseus' bones to have taken place.* CIMON. SOS Nothing could give the people more pleasure than this...poets were to try their skill ; and the dispute was particularly remarkable. Sophocles, then a young man, brought his first piece on the theatre: and Aphepsion...

...delivered to them four years before ; ^n the first year of the seventy-sixth olympiad. '..'•' " ' ' '/ Nothing could give the people more pleasure than this...audience were not unprejudiced, did not appoint the judges by lot in the usual manner'. The method he took was this : when Cimon and his officers had entered...

...and carried them to the ancient seat of that hero, almost four hundred years after he had left it. Nothing could give the people more pleasure than this...Sophocles, then a young man, brought his first piece on the theatre ; and Aphepsion, the archon, perceiving that the audience were not unprejudiced, did...

...and carried them to the ancient seat of that hero, almost four hundred years after he had left it.' Nothing could give the people more pleasure than this...were to try their skill; and the dispute was very remai¿able. Sophocles, then a young man, brought his first piece upon the theatre; and Aphepsion the...

...and carried them to the ancient seat of that hero, almost four hundred years after he had left it* Nothing could give the people more pleasure than this...were to try their skill; and the dispute was very remai-Kable. Sophocles, then a young man, brought his first piece upon the theatre; and Aphepsion the...

...received them wi*h the highest expressions of joy; and, to perpetuate the remembrance of this event, they instituted games in which the tragic poets were to try their skill, which became very famoi's, and contributed exceedingly to the improvement of the drama, by the wonderful...

...Ьего, almost four hundred years after he had left it.» Nothing could rive the people more pleaeure than this event. To commemorate it, they instituted...their skill; and the dispute was very remarkable. Sophoo.les, the» a young man, brought his first piece upon the theater; and Aphepsion, the archou,...