...of course, each event has a number of secondary causes that enter at different points in its deaut humana palam coquat exta nefarius Atreus, aut in avem...anguem. Quodcumque ostendis mihi sic, incredulus odi [So Medea ought not slay her boys before the audience, nor should Atreus cook his horrid banquet of...

...der Regel fünf Acte verlangt: ein Gebrauch, den schon Horaz zur technischen Vorschrift erhoben hat: Neve minor neu sit quinto productior actu Fabula , quae posci vult et spectata reponi. (Ars poet. 189.) In der Regel fünf: denn es giebt allerdings Abweichungen, es kommen auch andre Zahlen...