BATHYLLUS and PYLADIES, inventors of pantomime entertainments on the stage. Bathyllus succeeded in representing comedy; Pylades, in tragedy. The art consisted in expressing the passions by gestures, attitudes, and dumb shew; not, as in modern times, in machinery, and the fooleries of Harlequin. They flourished at Rome, under Augustus, about A.D. 10. Each of them kept scholars, who perpetuated their master’s name: for the followers of Bathyllus, who excelled in the comic part, called themselves Bathylli; and those of Pylades, who excelled in the tragic, called themselves Pylade.