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Alexis

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy, was born about 394 B.C. at Thurii and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen. Plutarch says that he lived to the age of 106, and that he died on the stage while being crowned. According to Suidas, who calls him Menander's uncle, he wrote 245 comedies, of which some 130 titles are preserved. The fragments (about loon lines) attest the wit and refinement of the author (Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Alexis'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/alexis.html. 1910.
 
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