Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy, born at Thurii and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen. Plutarch says that he lived to the age of 106, and that he died on the stage while being crowned. According to Suïdas, who calls him Menander’s uncle, he wrote 245 comedies, of which some 130 titles are preserved. The fragments (about 1,000 lines) attest the wit and refinement of the author (Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta). See also “Vanity Fair.”
