one of the earliest of the comic poets of Athens, and the contemporary of Chionides, was a native of Icaria in Attica, and flourished during the fifth century B.C. We can gather, from what Aristotle says of him, that he was the earliest comic poet of whom any victories are recorded. An anonymous writer says he gained eleven victories, while Suidas and Eudocia affirm, that out of nine plays which he exhibited, he gained only two victories. The latter statement is rendered exceedingly questionable by a passage in Aristophanes, a writer who flourished a few years after Magnes, and who, while praising his wit and versatility, charges the Athenians with fickleness and ingratitude towards the old comedian, who, from the enjoyment of an eminent popularity had been reduced to total neglect. Magnesia (Knights, line 520, &c.) The titles of a few of the plays of Magnes constitute almost all that can be discovered respecting them. Scarcely more than half-a-dozen lines of his works are extant. A scholiast on Aristophanes signifies the Barbitides, a satire on a peculiar class of musicians; the Loutoi, an attack on the indecent dances of the Lydians; and a few others of which the authorship is doubtful.