Epilycus
Ἐπίλυκος
(Ἐπίλυκος), an Athenian comic poet of the old comedy, who is mentioned by an ancient grammarian in connexion with Aristophanes and Philyllius, and of whose play Κωραλίσκος a few fragments are preserved. (Suid. s.v. Athen. iv. pp. 133, b., 140, a., xiv. p. 650c., xv. p. 691c.; Bekker, Anecd. p. 411. 17; Phot. Lex. s. V. τεττιγόνιον; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 269, ii. pp. 887, 889; Bergk, de Reliq. Com. Att. Ant. p. 431.) An epic poet of the same name, a brother of the comic poet Crates, is mentioned by Saidas (s. v. Κράτης).
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.