Aristote Poetics 26.3

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comme ſi les ſpectateurs ne pouvoient y rien comprendre ſi elle n'expoſoit tout à leurs yeux, ceux qui la repreſentent font beaucoup de geſtes & de mouvemens pour la rendre plus ſenſible, de même à peu prés que font les méchans joüeurs de flute, qui ſe roulent pour imiter le mouvement d'un palet, ou qui tiraillent le Chef de la bande, quand ils joüent la ſcylla; ce qu'ils ne peuvent exprimer par leurs ſons, ils tâchent de le faire comprendre par leurs geſtes.

Poetics. Aristote. Paris. 1692.

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La poëtique d'Aristote (André Dacier, 1692) (OCR draft) (fra) (André Dacier's French translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1692.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Translations (3)
Poetics (Thomas Twining, 1789) (OCR draft) Experimental (Thomas Twining's English translation of Aristotle's Poetics, published in 1789 and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.) — 26.3 focus
for there, the imitators have recourse to every kind of motion and gesticulation, as if the audience, without the aid of action, were incapable of understanding them: like bad flute-players, who whirl themselves round, when they would imitate the motion of the Discus, and pull the Coryphaeus, when Scylla is the subject.
The Poetic of Aristotle (Henry James Pye, revised 1792) (OCR draft) Experimental (Henry James Pye's revised 1792 English translation, corrected against the 1788 first edition, aligned to the Kassel reference edition, and supplied with a selective apparatus of substantive 1788 readings.) — 26.3 focus
as not being intelligible without the addition of much movement and [D] action. As bad players on the flute turn round, if they would imitate the motion of a discus. Or, when they perform the part of Scylla, are obliged to pull [E] the leader of the chorus.
The Poetic of Aristotle (Theodore Alois Buckley) (OCR draft) Experimental (Theodore Alois Buckley's English translation, first published in 1850 and represented from the Henry G. Bohn 1857 printing; corrected against a second OCR and aligned to the Kassel reference passage sequence.) — 26.3 focus
just as bad players on the flute turn themselves round, when it is requisite to imitate the action of the discus; or when they sing of Scylla, draw to themselves the coryphaeus, or leader of the band. 1 Such, then, is tragedy,