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Νίκων
(Νίκων), literary.
1. A comic writer, asigned by Meineke to lthe new comedy. A fragment of three lines is preserved by Athenaeus, from his play Κιθαρωδός (xi. p. 487c.), and Pollux gives a portion of the same passage (vi 99). (Meineke, Frag. Poet. Corn. vol. i. p. 495, v. p. 578.)
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.