Aristóphanes, A poet moste eloquent in the tongue of the A theniens, although he was borne at the Rhodes. Hee wrote 54 comedies, wherein hee spared not them, which then lyued. Hee was in displeasure with Socrates, and therefore he reprehendeth him in his Comedie called the Clowdes. It was also a Grammarian of Byzance.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ăristŏphănes, is, m., = *)aristofa/nhs. I. A..The most distinguished comic poet of Greece, from Lindus, on the island of Rhodes, a contemporary of Socrates, Hor. S. 1, 4, 1.—Hence, B. Derivv., 1. Ări-stŏphănēus or -īus, a, um, adj., Aristophanean: anapaestus Aristophanius, Cic. Or. 56, 190: metrum, Serv. Centim. p. 1818 P.—2. Ăristŏphănĭcus, a, um, adj., the same, Hier. ad Isa. l. 15, c. 54, v. 11.— II.A distinguished grammarian of Byzantium, pupil of Eratosthenes, and teacher of the critic Aristarchus, Cic. de Or. 3, 33, 132; id. Fin. 5, 19, 50; id. Att. 16, 11.
