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 1o6, and that he died on the stage while being crowned . According to Suidas, who calls him Menander's uncle, he wrote 245 comedies, of which some 130 titles are preserved . The fragments (about l000 lines) attest the wit and refinement of the author (Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta) .