POSEIDIPPUS

One of the most eminent poets of the New Comedy, a native of Cassandrea in Macedonia. He began to exhibit for the first time in the third year after the death of Menander, or in B.C.289. Of his pieces, as many as forty are mentioned by name, but only fragments of them are preserved. It was probably in imitation of one of these that the Menaechmi of Plautus was written.