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

2. An Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy, whose plays, entitled Φάσμα ἢ Φιλάργνρος, Φιλοδέσποτος, and Κένταυρος, are mentioned by Suidas, on the authority of Athenaeus. (Comp. Eudoc. p. 232.) In Athenaeus himself we find no mention of the Κένταυρος, but we have a fragment of ten lines from the Φιλοδέσποτος (Ath. xiv. p. 616a.), and one of four lines from the Φάσμα ἢ Φιλάργυρος. (Ath. iii. p. 104b., xv. p. 671a.) There is some reason to suppose that Plautus borrowed his Mostellaria from the latter play. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 500; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 487, vol. iv. p. 549.)

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