ALEXIS, Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy, was born
about 394 B.C. at Thurii and taken early to Athens,
where he became a citizen. Plutarch says that he lived to
the age of 106, and that he died on the stage while being
crowned. According to Suidas, who calls him Monander's
uncle, he wrote 245 comedies, of which some 130 titles are
preserved. The fragments (about 1000 lines) attest the wit and
refinement of the author (Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta).
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