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of Caricature
Hijivry
and Grotejyue
probably another in the other hand, Ib that he could {trike them together.
He wears the fuccus, or low {hoe peculiar to the comic aotors. This
butfoon was a favourite character among the Romans, who introduced
him confiantly into their feafis and {upper parties. The manducus was
another charatiter of this defcription, reprefented with a grotefque matk,
prefenting a wide mouth and tongue lolling out, and faid to have been
peculiar to the Atellane plays. A character in Plautus (Rud., ii. 6, 51)
talks of hiring himfelf as a manclucus in the plays.
" Q4111 f aliquo ad ludos me pro manduco lacem "
The mediaeval gl0H'es interpret manducus by joculatm", "a jogelor," and
add that the charaiieriiiic from which he took his name was the praiiiice
of making grimaces like a man gobbling up his food in a vulgar and
gluttonous manner.
Ficoroni gives, from an engraved onyx, a iigure of another burlelilue
performer, copied in our cut N0. I8, and which he compares to the
Roman Tam Fan].
Catanian dancer of his time (his book was publilhed in 1754.), who was
called a giangurgolo. This is confidered to reprefent the Roman mzmus,
a clalk of performers who told with mimicry and aelion fcenes taken from
common