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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.menecrates_2</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.menecrates_2</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="menecrates-bio-2" n="menecrates_2"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Mene'crates</surname></persName></head><p>(<label xml:lang="grc">Μενεκράτης</label>).</p><p>1. A comic poet, mentioned only by Suidas, who says <foreign xml:lang="grc">δράματα
       αὐτοῦ Μανέκτωρ ἢ Ἑρμιονεύς</foreign>, where the plural <foreign xml:lang="grc">δράματα</foreign> suggests the alteration of <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἢ</foreign> to
       <foreign xml:lang="grc">καί Μανέκτωρ</foreign>, is obviously an abbreviation of <foreign xml:lang="grc">Μάνης Ἕκτωρ</foreign>, a title which seems to belong to the Middle
      Comedy. (Fabric. <hi rend="ital">Bibl. Graec.</hi> vol. ii. p. 469; Meineke, <hi rend="ital">Hist. Crit. Com. Graec.</hi> p. 493.)</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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