ARCHIPPUS  , an Athenian poet of the Old See also:

• COMEDY

Comedy, who flourished towards the end of the 5th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . His most famous See also:

• PLAY

play was the Fishes, in which he satirized the fondness of the Athenian epicures for See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish . The Alexandrian critics attributed to him the authorship of four plays previously assigned to See also:

• ARISTOPHANES
• ARISTOPHANES (c. 448–385 B.e.1)

Aristophanes . Archippus was ridiculed by his See also:

• CON

con-temporaries for his fondness for playing upon words (Schol. on Aristophanes, Wasps, 481) . Titles and fragments of six plays are preserved, for which see T . See also:

• KOCK, CHARLES PAUL DE (1793-1871)

Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, i . (188o) ; or A . See also:

• MEINEKE, JOHANN ALBRECHT FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1790-1870)

Meineke, Poetarum Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1855) .