340 BC)[1] was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period.
Based on his name, he has been presumed of Doric origin.
[2] He was, along with several other Middle Comedy poets (e.g. Antiphanes, Anaxandrides, Amphis, Alexis, Epicrates, Eubulides, Sophilus, and Dionysius of Sinope, all of apparently non-Attic origin) part of the increasing influence of non-Attic poets following the fifth century BC.
[3] He was one of several comic poets mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius, as having "ridiculed" Plato.
[4] Titles for twenty one of his plays are known, but only fragments of his works remain.