(παντομίμη, all, πικρός, an imitator), is one who imitates all sorts of actions and characters by means of gesticulation alone. This species of actor was common to the civilized nations of antiquity, and especially to Greece. The pantomimes proper, however, who resembled very nearly the modern ballet-dancers, were peculiar to Rome, where the art was carried to great perfection during the reign of Augustus. This art was discomfited by Ti-

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1 Lewes, true to the spirit of his philosophical creed, confidently asserts that one can only escape Spinozism by denying the possibility of all philosophy. (See Biog. Hist. of Phil. "On Spinoza's Doctrine.")