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Hermippus mentions also Nothippus the tragic poet, in his Tales, thus— But if such a race of men Were to wage a present war With those who now exist on earth, And if a roast ray led them on, Or a fine side of well-fed pork, The rest might safely stay at home, And trust Nothippus by himself, For he alone would swallow up The whole Peloponnesus:— and that the man meant here was the poet, Teleclides shows plainly, in his Hesiods.
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Myniscus, the tragic actor, is ridiculed by Plato, the comic writer, in his Syrphax, as an epicure in respect of fish; where he says— A. Here is an Anagyrasian orphus for you, Which e'en my friend Myniscus the Chalcidean Could hardly finish. B. Much obliged to you. And for a similar reason, Callias, in his Pedetæ, and Lysippus, in his Bacchæ, ridicule Lampon the soothsayer. But Cratinus, in his Female Runaways, speaking of him, says—Lam- pon, whom nothing which men said of him could keep away from any banquet of his friends; and adds, But now again he is belching away; for he devours everything which he can see, and he would fight even for a mullet.
