or ANAXILA'US (Ἀναξίλας, Ἀναξίλαος), an Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy, contemporary with Plato and Demosthenes, the former of whom he attacked in one of his plays. (D. L. 3.28.) We have a few fragments and the titles of nineteen of his comedies, eight of which are on mythological subjects. (Pollux, 2.29, 34; 10.190; Athen. pp. 95, 171, 374, 416, 655; Meineke; Bode.)