Theodorus or Theodorus the Comedian
24. The COMEDIAN (ὁ κωμικός), mentioned by Hesychius as being surnamed, or rather nicknamed πελεθόβαψ, " dung-diver." According to some accounts he was a poet. Nothing is known of his time or country. (Hesych. s. v. Πελεθόβαψ.)
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.