person Menander was foppish and effeminate[1]. He wrote several prose works[2]. A statue was erected to his memory in the theatre at Athens[3].
The date of the birth of Diphilus is unknown; it is stated
that he exhibited at the same time with Menander[4]. He was
born at Sinope[5], and died at Smyrna. Of one hundred Comedies,
which he is said to have written, the names of forty-eight are pre-
served[6]. The Casina of Plautus is borrowed from his(
Greek characters)[7], and the Rudens from some other play[8]; and Terence tells
us, that he introduced into the Adelphi a literal translation of
part of the (Greek characters) of Diphilus[9]. It appears from the
Casina and Rudens and from a fragment of Machon[10], that he
- ↑ 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.
Phædrus, v. 1. 9,Prorsus si quis Menandrico fluxu delicatam vestem humi protrahat. TertuUian, c. IV. de Pallio.
- ↑ Suidas, (
Greek characters).
- ↑ Pausan. I. 21, i.
- ↑ (Greek characters) Proleg. Arist, p, xxxi.
- ↑ Strabo, XII. p. 546.
- ↑ Fabricius, II, p. 438, Harles.
- ↑ Clerumenæ vocatur hæc comœdia
Græce; Latine Sortientes. Diphilus
Hanc Greæce scripsit, post id rursum denuo
Latine Plautus cum latranti nomine.
Prolog. Casinæ, 30—32. - ↑ Prolog. Rud. 32:
Primum dum huic esse nomen urbi Dipliilus
Cyrenas voluit. - ↑ Synapothnescontes Diphili comœdia 'st :
Eam Conmorientes Plautus fecit fabulam.
In Græca adolescens est, qui lenoni eripit
Meretricem in primâ fabulâ : eura Plautus locum
Reliquit integrum, eum hie locum sumpsit sibi
In Adelphos, verbum de verbo expressum extulit.
Prol. Adelph. 6—11. - ↑ Athen. XIII. p. 580 A:
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