HERMIPPUS  , " the one-eyed," Athenian writer of the Old

Comedy, flourished 'during the Peloponnesian War . He is said to have written 40 plays, of which the titles and fragments of nine aie preserved . He was a bitter opponent of Pericles, whom he accused (probably in the MolpaL) of being a bully and a coward, and of carousing with his boon companions while the Lacedaemonians were invading Attica . He also accused Aspasia of impiety and offences against morality, and her acquittal was only secured by the tears of Pericles (Plutarch, Pericles, 32) . In the 'Apro^rwXites (" Bakeresses ") he attacked the demagogue Hyperbolus . The cDopµo46pot (Mat-carriers) contains many parodies of Homer . Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus . Fragments in T . Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i . (188o), and A . Meineke, Poetarum Graecorum cmicorum fragmenta (1855) .