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Indeed, such is his
supremacy that he has scarce left a name to other
writers of the new comedy, and has cast them into
darkness by the splendour of his own renown.
Still, you will find something of value in the other
comic poets as well, if you read them in not too
critical a spirit; above all, profit may be derived
from the study of Philemon,1 who, although it was
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a depraved taste which caused his contemporaries
often to prefer him to Menander, has none the
less deserved the second place which posterity has
been unanimous in awarding him.
1 Philemon of Soli (360–262); Menader of Athens (342– 290).
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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