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                <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="S"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="sophilus-bio-1" n="sophilus_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">So'philus</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Σώφιλος</surname></persName>), a comic poet of the
      middle comedy, was a native of Sicyon or of Thebes, and composed the following dramas (Suid.
       <hi rend="ital">s. v.</hi>) : <foreign xml:lang="grc">Κιθαρῳδός</foreign>, <foreign xml:lang="grc">Φίλαρχος</foreign>, <foreign xml:lang="grc">Τυνδάρεως ἢ
       Αήδα</foreign>, <foreign xml:lang="grc">Δηλία</foreign>, <foreign xml:lang="grc">Ἐγχειρίδιον</foreign> (or <foreign xml:lang="grc">Χοιρίδιον</foreign>, but the other
      reading is more probably correct), and <foreign xml:lang="grc">παρακαταθήκη</foreign>, to
      which must be added, from Athenaeus, <foreign xml:lang="grc">Συντρέχοντες</foreign>, and
       <foreign xml:lang="grc">Ἀνδροκλῆς</foreign>. Diogenes Laertius (2.120) refers to a play
      of Sophilus, entitled <title xml:lang="grc">Γάμοι</title>, in which Stilpo was attacked;
      but the reading of the passage is very doubtful, and Meineke has shown reasons for supposing
      that the play referred to is the <foreign xml:lang="grc">Γάμος</foreign> of Diphilus or of
      Philemon. Meineke also remarks that <foreign xml:lang="grc">Σώφιλος</foreign> must not be
      confounded with <foreign xml:lang="grc">Σόφιλος</foreign> or <foreign xml:lang="grc">Σόφιλλος</foreign>, which was a different name : the father of the poet Sophocles was
      named <foreign xml:lang="grc">Σόφιλος</foreign>. There are very few fragments of Sophilus
      remaining. The time at which he flourished is supposed by Meineke to have been about Ol. 108,
       <date when-custom="-348">B. C. 348</date>. (Meineke, <hi rend="ital">Frag. Com. Graec.</hi> vol. i.
      pp. 424-426, vol. iii. pp. 581-584; Ed. Min., p. 794, &amp;c.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.P.S">P.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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