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Dexicrates

Δεξικράτης

(Δεξικράτης), an Athenian comic poet of the new comedy, whose drama entitled (Ὑφ̓ ἑαυτῶν πλανώμενοι is quoted by Athenaeus (iii. p. 124b). Suidas (s. v.) also refers to the passage in Athenaeus. (Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i. p. 492, iv. p. 571.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.