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exhibits a goat, with this legend, AINION. The chap. 
extraordinary boldness of the relief caused > 
by the die exceeds that of any other example 
in the whole series of antient Grecian coinage. 
Sometimes the medals of ^nos have the 
same head of Mercury, wearing the Petasm 
instead of the Fez ; and sometimes the Fez 
is represented pointed, like the Ionian mitre 
upon Grecian statues. An approximation to 
this latter form may be observed in the sort 
of cap worn by Harlequin, upon our stage ; 
the whole Pantomime of Harlequin having ^^"^1^ 
been origfinallv derived from Greece, whence English 
^ •' Panto- 
it was imported into Italy ; and still preserves, mime. 
among modem nations, a very curious mytho- 
logical representation, founded upon the dramas 
of the Antients °. Thus we see Harlequin, upon 
(2) Pantomime, even in its limited sense, or that particular species 
of drama, in which the actors, by "movements, signs, and gesti- 
culations, without the aid of speech, expressed any event, or a 
whole story, was known in Itali/ in the time of yJugustus: and that 
this species of drama was derived from Greece, no scholar will 
dispute. The reader is referred to the work of Ficoroni " de Flguris 
et Larvis Scenicis," Romce, \'oO, for proof that the painted faces 
of our Clowns,^ as uniformly represented with their large mouths, are 
imitations of antient Masks ■• also, for other information, to 
Calliachi " de Ludis Scenicis," and Fdllo " de Histrimiihus et Mimis." 
Fabricius, Thesaur. voce Histrio, gives a curious passage from 
Demosthenes. The Pantomimes of the Antients, like those of 
Modern Italy, were more frequently speaking than 7nute performances. 
A curious Inscription is preserved by Ficoroni, as taken from the 
pedestal of a statue of a celebrated Comedian of this class of Actors = 
M-AVRELIO 
