EUBULUS  , Athenian poet of the

Middle comedy, flourished about 370 B.C . Fragments from about fifty of the 104 plays attributed to him are preserved in Athenaeus . They show that he took little interest in political affairs, but confined himself chiefly to mythological subjects, ridiculing, when opportunity offered, the bombastic style of the tragedians, especially Euripides . His language is pure, and his versification correct . Fragments in T . Kock . Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, ii . (1884) .