Crobylus is thought to be an

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Middle Comedy poet, although there is no specific ancient evidence to this effect. Crobylus is said to have lived sometime after 324 BCE. He is sometimes confused with Hegesippus.

Surviving titles and fragments

Eleven fragments of his

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survive, along with three titles: ''The Man Who Tried to Hang Himself'', ''The Woman Who Was Trying to Leave Her Husband or The Woman Who Left Her Husband'', and ''Falsely Supposititious''. The standard edition of the fragments and testimonia is in

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and

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's ''Poetae Comici Graeci'' Vol. IV. The eight-volume ''Poetae Comici Graeci'' produced from 1983 to 2001 replaces the outdated collections ''Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum'' by

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(1839-1857), ''Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta'' by

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(1880-1888) and ''Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' by

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(1899).

References

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