202 THE COMEDIANS person Menander was foppish and effeminated He wi'ote several prose works 2. A statue was erected to his memory in the theatre at Athens^. The date of the birth of Diphilus is unknown ; it is stated that he exhibited at the same time with Menander^. He was born at Sinope^, and died at Smyrna. Of one hundred Comedies, which he is said to have written, the names of forty-eight are pre- served^. The Casina of Plautus is borrowed from his ¥Skr)pov- fievot'^, and the Rudens from some other play^; and Terence tells us, that he introduced into the Adel^M a literal translation of part of the ^vvairoOvrjaKovre^i of Diphilus ^ It appears from the Casina and Rudens and from a fragment of Machon^", that he 1 In quis Menander, nobilis comoediis, Unguento delibutus, vestitu affluens, Veniebat gressu delicato et languido. Quisnam cinsedus ille in conspectu meo Audet venire ? Kesponderunt proximi : Hie est Menander scriptor. Phsedrus, V. i. 9, Prorsus si quis Menandrico fluxu delicatam vestem humi protrahat. TertuUian, c. IV. de Pallio. 2 Suidas, Meuavbpos. ^ Pausan. I. 21, i.
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Spafiara S^ avrou p'. Proleg. Arist, p, xxxi. 5 Strabo, Xii. p. 546. ^ Fabricius, 11, p. 438, Harles. "^ Clerumence vocatur hsec comoedia Grsece; Latine Sortientes. Diphilus Hanc Greece scripsit, post id rursum denuo Latine Plautus cum latranti nomine. Prolog. Casince, 30 — 32. ^ Prolog. Rud. 32 : Primum dum huic esse nomen urbi Dipliilus Cyrenas voluit. ^ Synapothnescontes Diphili comoedia 'st : Eam Conmorientes Plautus fecit fabulam. In Grteca adolescens est, qui lenoni eripit Meretricem in prima fabulil : eura Plautus locum Reliquit integrum, eum hie locum sumpsit sibi In Adelphos, verbum de verbo expressum extulit. Prol. Adelph. 6 — 11. 1^ Athen. xiii. p. 580 A: 6 A/0tXos, » " VT] TT]u 'kdrjvav Kol deohs -^vxpov 7'," ^07/, ^'TvadoLv, ^x^'5 TOV XcLkkov o/j.oXoyovp.iuojs.' 7] 5' eiTre, " tQv aQv dpafidrdju yap eirifj-eXois et's avTou del tovs irpoXoyovs i/x^dWofxeu."
