Chaeris
(
*Xai=ris).
1. A flute-player and harper at Athens, who seems to have been more fond of hearing himself play than other people were of hearing him.
He is ridiculed by Aristophanes. (
Ach. 16, 831,
Pax, 916,
Av. 858.) From the Scholiast on the two passages last referred to we learn, that he was attacked also by Pherecrates in the
Ἄγριοι (Plat.
Protag. p. 327) and,--for there seems no reason to suppose this a different person, --by Cratinus in the
Νέμεσις.