ARCHIPPUS  , an Athenian poet of the Old

Comedy, who flourished towards the end of the 5th century B.C . His most famous play was the Fishes, in which he satirized the fondness of the Athenian epicures for fish . The Alexandrian critics attributed to him the authorship of four plays previously assigned to Aristophanes . Archippus was ridiculed by his 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 . Kock, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, i . (188o) ; or A . Meineke, Poetarum Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1855) .