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. A comic poet of the New Comedy, who flourished about B. C. 300. Two of his comedies are quoted, Ἀδελφοί and Φιλέταιροι. Suidas (s. v.) confounds him with the orator. (Athen. 7.279a., p. 290b., ix. p. 405d.; Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 475-477.)