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Epicharmus

Epicharmus · m

A famous Pythagorean philosopher and comic poet of Cos

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ĕpĭcharmus — Lewis & Short

ĕpĭcharmus, i, m., = *)epi/xarmos.

I A famous Pythagorean philosopher and comic poet of Cos, who resided, after his early youth, in Syracuse (whence his surname of Siculus), Cic. Tusc. 1, 8; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 58; Plin. 20, 9, 34, § 89 al.—Hence,
B Epicharmīum illud, a saying of Epicharmus, Gell. 1, 15, 15.—
II The name of a poem by Ennius, Cic. Ac. 2, 16 fin. al.; v. Vahlen, Ennianae Poesis Reliquiae, p. 167 sq.

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