Diodo'rus of SINOPE
(
*Dio/dwros), of SINOPE, an Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy, is mentioned in an inscription (Böckh, i. p. 354), which fixes his date at the archonship of Diotimus (B. C. 354-353), when he exhibited two plays, entitled
Νεκρός and
Μαινόμενος, Aristomachus being his actor. Suidas (
s. v.) quotes Athenaeus as mentioning his
Αὐλητρίς in the tenth book of the
Deipnosophistae, and
Ἐπίκληρος and
Πανηγυρισταί in the twelfth book.
The actual quotations made in our copies of Athenaeus are from the
Αὐλητρίς (x. p. 431c.) and a long passage from the
Ἐπίκληρος (vi. pp. 235, e., 239, b., not xii.), but of the
Πανηγυρισταί there is no mention in Athenaeus.
A play under that title is ascribed to Baton or to PLATO. There is another fragment from Diodorus in Stobaeus. (
Serm. 72.1.)
In another passage of Stobaeus (
Serm. 125.8) the common reading,
Διονύσιος, should be retained. (Meineke,
Frag. Com. Graec. i. pp. 418, 419, iii. pp. 543-546.)
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