an Athenian poet of the old comedy, and in the judgment of Horace the greatest ornament of that school, was the son of Soisipolis, and was born B.C. 445. Nothing whatever is known of his personal history. With regard to his death, he is said to have been thrown into the sea by Alcibiades, who had suffered from his attacks. It is much more likely, however, and much more generally believed, that he fell at the battle either of Cynossema, B.C. 411, or of Egopotami, B.C. 408. To a lively and fertile fancy Eupolis added a sound practical judgment, which prompted him to a thorough mastery of the mechanical part of his art. The result of his studies was that he was reputed to equal Aristophanes in the elegance and purity of his diction, and Cratinus in the command of the most bitter irony and pungent sarcasm. Very curious and complicated relations subsisted between Eupolis and Aristophanes, who accused each other with the bitterest virulence not only of imitation but of plagiarism. Some of these attacks will be found described in various parts of the Scholiac upon Aristophanes. The plays of Eupolis are said to have numbered in all seventeen. Meinecke gives the names of fifteen which he considers genuine, and an analysis of those whose subjects can be decided from the surviving fragments.