A comic poet of Athens, flourished about 440 B. C. Eminent as an actor, he often performed the principal parts in the plays of Cratinus. As a comic poet he was the first Athenian who ventured to. bring drunken characters on the stage. Little is known of his works. The titles of 14 are given, of 8 of which there are extant fragments. II. A Cynic philosopher, born at Thebes, flourished about 320 B. C. He early removed to Athens, where he became the pupil of Diogenes, and afterward one of the most eminent in that school of philosophers. According to Diogenes Laertius, he lived a Cynic of the straitest sort. Fearing that the quiet of philosophical pursuits would be disturbed by the cares of wealth, of which he had an abundance, he is said to have thrown his money into the sea; but according to another account, he placed it in the hands of a banker, with the condition that if his sons should have the misfortune to be fools they should inherit the property, and that otherwise it should be distributed to the poor. "For," said Crates, "if they are philosophers, they will not need it." He wrote a book of philosophical letters, which Laertius compares with those of Plato, and also tragedies and smaller poems, none of which are extant.

His life was written by Plutarch, but this has also been lost. III. An Athenian philosopher, the pupil and friend of Polemo, and his successor in the chair of the academy, flourished about 270 B. C. He contributed little to the progress of philosophical investigation, and is known mainly as the instructor of Arcesilaus and others. IV. A Greek grammarian, called also by Suidas a Stoie philosopher, founded about the middle of the 2d century B. 0. the celebrated Pergamene school of grammar, and became the great rival of Aris-tarchus, of the Alexandrian school. From his work on Homer he is said to have been called ' He wrote commentaries on Hesiod, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Only a few fragments of his works are preserved.