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Question 107. Why do the Romans call the artists who
appear in the worship of Bacchus histriones?
Solution. Is it for the reason which C. Rufus tells us?
For he says, that in ancient time, C. Sulpicius and Licinius
Stolo, being consuls, a pestilence raging in Rome, all the
actors upon the stage were cut off; wherefore, upon the
request of the Romans, many and good artists came from
Etruria, among whom he that excelled in fame and had
been longest experienced on the public stages was called
Histrus, and from him they named all the stage-players.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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