(from the article `theatre, Western`) ...pandering to the taste of the emperor. By the time of the Christian persecutions under Nero and Domitian, mimes were used to ridicule the ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/46
(from the article `stage design`) The garment peculiar to mime productions was a gay coloured patchwork jacket called centunculus, and this name became applied to mime actors in ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/46