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3. A celebrated tiagic actor, the son of Charicles of Sunium, and a disciple of Archias of Thurii. It is related of him that at the age of 70, shortly before his death, he acted in eight tragedies on four successive days. (Plut. Dem. p. 859, An seni ger. sit Resp. 3. p. 785b; Lucian. Necyom. vol. i. p. 479, ed. Hemst.)
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.