said to be the inventor of the Mime, which was one of the numerous varieties of the Dorian comedy, was the son of Agathocles, and was born at Syracuse, and flourished during the middle of the fifth century. Not only incidents, but characters were represented in the Mimes of Sophron, and they were composed in an irregular halting rhythm, consisting of a medium between poetry and prose. They were written in the old Doric dialect, and were doubtless intended for public exhibition. Sophron was closely imitated by Theocritus. Plato esteemed highly the productions of Sophron, and is said to have introduced them to the notice of the Athenians. (Quintil. i. 10, 17). The fragments of Sophron which have survived him have been collected by Blomfield in the Classical Journal, No. 8, and more fully in the Museum Criticum, vol. ii.