[58]
which is styled ἠθοποιί̂α or, as some prefer μίμησις
may be counted among the devices which serve to
excite the gentler emotions. For it consists mainly
in banter, though it may be concerned either with
words or deeds. If concerned with the latter, it
closely resembles ὑποτύπωσις while the following
passage from Terence1 will illustrate it as applied
to words: “I didn't see your drift. 'A little girl
was stolen from this place; my mother brought her
up as her own daughter. She was known as my
sister. I want to get her away to restore her to her
relations.'”
1 Eun. I. ii. 75.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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