A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

a writer of mimes, whose age and history are both unknown. A trochaic tetrameter verse from a mimus entitled Melaene, is the only relic of his poems. It is cited under the word "Capularem," by Fulgentius. (Exposit. ant. Serm. p. 564, Nonii Mercer ; Bothe, Poet. Scen. Lat. vol. v. p. 273.)

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