ALEXIS, an ancient comic poet, born about B.C. 390 at Thurii in Magna Græcia, the uncle and instructor of
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Alexis. Menander. He lived 106 years, and wrote 245 plays, the fragments extant bearing testimony to their wit and elegance. They were frequently translated by the Latin comic writers.—See Meinecke, Fragm. Com. vol. 1.