. Poseidon. iFrom a medal ofDemetrius Poliorcetes.). 752 POSIDIPPUS POTIDAEA Posidippus (UoffdSnnros, IloaiSiTnros). Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy,was a native of Cassandrea in Macedonia. Hewas reckoned one of the six most celebratedpoets of the New Comedy. In time, he wasthe last of all the poets of the New his plays was one entitled AlSvfioi,which was possibly the original of the Men-aechmi of Plautus. He began to exhibit dramasin the third year after the death of Menander—that is, in 289. (Fragments

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. Poseidon. iFrom a medal ofDemetrius Poliorcetes.). 752 POSIDIPPUS POTIDAEA Posidippus (UoffdSnnros, IloaiSiTnros). Athenian comic poet of the New Comedy,was a native of Cassandrea in Macedonia. Hewas reckoned one of the six most celebratedpoets of the New Comedy. In time, he wasthe last of all the poets of the New his plays was one entitled AlSvfioi,which was possibly the original of the Men-aechmi of Plautus. He began to exhibit dramasin the third year after the death of Menander—that is, in 289. (Fragments in Meineke, Fr,Com. Gr.)—2. An epigrammatic poet of theAlexandrian period. His epigrams formed apart of the Garland of , and twenty-two of them are preserved in the Greek Antho- Posidium (HoaeiSiOv), the name of severalpromontories sacred to Poseidon. 1. (Puntadella Licosa), in Lucania, opposite the islandLeucosia, the S. point of the gulf of Paestum(Strab. p. 252).—2. In Epirus, opposite theNE. point of Corcyra (Ptol. hi. 14, 4; Strab. ).—3. (C. Stavros), in Thessaly, formingthe W. poi

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