Epinicus or ''Epinikos'' ( grc-gre, Ἐπίνικος, 3rd century BC), was an
Athenian
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comic poet of the
New Comedy. Two of his plays are known, ''Hypoballomenai'' and ''Mnêsiptolemos''. The latter title determines his date to the time of
Antiochus III the Great, about 217 BC, for
Mnesiptolemus was an historian in great favour with that king.
[Eudoc. p. 166; Athen. x. p. 432, b., xi. pp. 469, a., 497, a., 500, f.; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 481, iv. pp. 505-508. (cited by Smith)]
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New Comic poets
3rd-century BC Greek people