(Μάγνης), one of the most important of the earlier Athenian comic poets of the old comedy.
He was a native of the deims of Icaria or Icarius, in Attica. (Suid. s. v.) He is mentioned by Aristotle (Aristot. Poet. 3) in such a manner as to imply that he was contemporary, or nearly so, with Chionides. An anonymous writer on comedy (p. 28) places him intermediate between Epicharmus and Cratinus. Suidas states that he was contemporary, as a young man, with Epicharmus in his old age. His recent death, at an advanced age, is referred to in the Knights of Aristophanes (524), which was written in B. C. 423. From these statements it may be inferred that he flourished about Ol. 80, B. C. 460, and onwards. The grammarian Diomedes is evidently quite wrong in joining him with Susarion and Myllus (iii. p. 486).
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