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 1 I   |           Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and Dithyrambic poetry,
 2 I   |       poetry, and also Tragedy and Comedy; but between them originally
 3 II  | distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing
 4 II  |           Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men
 5 III |      invention both of Tragedy and Comedy. The claim to Comedy is
 6 III |           and Comedy. The claim to Comedy is put forward by the Megarians—
 7 IV  |        laid down the main lines of comedy, by dramatizing the ludicrous
 8 IV  |         bears the same relation to comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey
 9 IV  |      tragedy. But when Tragedy and Comedy came to light, the two classes
10 IV  |       lampooners became writers of Comedy, and the Epic poets were
11 IV  |            it may, Tragedy—as also Comedy—was at first mere improvisation.
12 V   |                                  V~Comedy is, as we have said, an
13 V   |            are well known, whereas Comedy has had no history, because
14 V   |          were till then voluntary. Comedy had already taken definite
15 VI  |            hexameter verse, and of Comedy, we will speak hereafter.
16 IX  |     Alcibiades did or suffered. In Comedy this is already apparent:
17 XIII|             It is proper rather to Comedy, where those who, in the