Praeterea in auditorio hoc genus spectari debet non pavimenti marmoratio nec proscaenii contabulatio nec scaenae columnatio, sed nec culminum eminentia nec lacunarium refulgentia nec sedilium circumferentia, nec quod hic alias mimus halucinatur, comoedus sermocinatur, tragoedus vociferatur, funerepus periclitatur, praestigiator furatur, histrio gesticulatur ceterique omnes ludiones ostentant populo quod cuiusque artis est, sed istis omnibus supersessis nihil amplius spectari debet quam convenientium ratio et dicentis oratio.
Moreover, in a setting such as this, what deserves observation is not the marble of the floor, the boards of the proscenium, the columns of the stage, the loftiness of the roof, the brilliance of the ceiling panels, or the curvature of the seating, nor the fact that this is the place where at other times the mime rambles, the comic actor prattles, the tragic one declaims, the acrobat risks his neck, the conjurer picks purses, the dancer gesticulates, and all the other artists display their own particular skill to the populace. Putting all of that aside, nothing deserves observation so much as the quality of the assembled audience and the words of the speaker.
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