(), of Corinth or Sicyon, a comic poet, flourished at
Alexandria, where he gave instructions respecting comedy to the grammarian Aristophanes of
Byzantium. He was contemporary with Apollodorus of Carystus, and flourished between the 120th
and 130th Olympiads (
He held a high place among the Alexandrian poets; Athenaeus says of him,
We have the titles of two of his plays,
A sententious poem in iambic senarii, entitled
Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 479, 480, 462; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 452, 453.