Excerpt from De Tragicorum Anachronismis, Inquiritur Quo Modo e Tragicorum Scriptis Aequalium Graecorum Vitae Tam Publicae Quam Privatae Notitia Erui Possit: Dissertatio Litteraria Quam Annuente Summo Numine Ex Auctoritate Rectoris Magnifici Dr. E. Mulder
Materies, proprie posteriora aetate aliena, ita intérdum poetis tractata et conformata est, ut imaginem quam dam exprimerent eorum quae, quo tempore fabula agebatur, maxime spectatoribus cordi essent aut ut tecte hominem omniìòus notum significarent. Quae temporum translatio nobis utilissima esset ad tempus, quo fabula docta sit, constituendum si scrutantes eo possemus pervenire ut certi aliquid dècerni posset et contra... huins modi anachronismi vestigia facilius indagaremus si de anno, quo haec illave fabula acta sit satis constaret. Hino viri doctissimi iam diu in talia, inquirere coeperunt, interdum prosperrimo utentes eventu, saepius in meris coniecturis versautes.
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