Simylus
Σίμυλος
(Σίμυλος).
1. An Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy, who is known by an extant inscription to have exhibited a play in the archonship of Diotimus, Ol. 106. 2, B. C. 354. (Böckh, C. I. vol. i. p. 353). Of the title of the play in the inscription, only the last three letters, σιᾳ, remain; Böckh conjectures that it was Ἐφεσίᾳ. His Μεγαρική is cited by Pollux (10.42), and there are a few other references to him. (Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 424, 425; Editio Minor, Addenda ad p. 794, p. xviii.)
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