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“Hermippus:—Of Athens, comic poet of the Old Comedy, a one-eyed man, brother of the comic poet Myrtilus;1 he produced forty plays.2” Suidas Lexicon “About this time Aspasia was prosecuted for impiety at the instance of the comedy-writer Hermippus, who included in the indictment the charge of making her house a place of assignation for Pericles with freeborn women.... Pericles secured her acquittal very much against the evidence, according to Aeschines, by shedding tears for her and appealing to the jurors.” Plutarch Life of Pericles: “Then Hermippus again lampooned Hyperbolus.” Aristophanes Clouds: “Hermippus too, the poet of the Old Comedy, wrote Parodies .” Polemon in Athenaeus
Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.
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