Abstract
IN THE Poetics OF ARISTOTLE, the term LXadvOppwrov stands close behind axapria and Kadapcr-L among the problematical words and concepts which have attracted the most extensive study and comment. The importance of 4XkavOpworia in the moral and esthetic world of Menander has been emphasized by T. B. L. Webster, among others,1 and the passage in Plutarch's Table Talk discussed below (71 f-712d), where the word occurs in the context of a comparison of Aristophanes and Menander, has been remarked upon by those concerned with the influence and appreciation of Menander.2 What I hope to add is simply a clearer articulation of the shift in dramatic taste between the time of Sophocles and Aristophanes and that of
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