Sed ferret aequo animo hanc nominum communionem, si mimos spectavisset: animadverteret illic paene simili purpura alios praesidere, alios vapulare; itidem si munera nostra spectaret: nam illic quoque videret hominem praesidere, hominem depugnare; togam quoque parari et voto et funeri, item pallio cadavera operiri et philosophos amiciri.
But he would not have minded others sharing this name, had he ever observed mimes. There he would have noticed that those who take the chair and those who take a beating are dressed in nearly identical purple robes; and similarly if he had observed our public games, for there too he would have seen one man presiding and one man fighting it out; and also that togas are worn both for prayer and for mourning, and again that a cloak is used to hide corpses and to clothe philosophers.
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