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 REMAINING TRAGEDIANS. 161 have expected from a pupil of Gorgias^ Aristotle tells us^ that lie was the first to introduce into his dramas arbitrary choral songs, which had nothing to do with the subject; and it appears from the same author that he sometimes wrote pieces with fictitious names, which Schlegel justly concludes were something between the idyl and the newest form of Comedy^. He was residing at the court of Archelaus when Euripides died^ : the cause of his de- parture from Athens is not known. He is represented as a delicate and effeminate person in Aristophanes' play, called the Secr/iocfiopcd- ^ovaai^ ] and it is, perhaps, only the intimacy subsisting between Aristophanes and him which has gained for him the affectionate tribute of esteem which the comedian puts into the mouth of Bacchus^, and has saved him from the many strictures which he deserved, both as a poet and as a man. The time of his death is not recorded. Xenocles, though, he is called an execrable poet"^, gained a tragic prize with a Trilogy, over the head of Euripides, in B.C. 415^. He was the son of Carcinus, a tragedian of whom nothing is known, and is continually ridiculed by Aristophanes. His brothers, Xenotimus and Demotinus or Xenoclitus, were choral dancers. Ka/XTrret 5^ vias dt/'tSas iirQu^ To, 5^ Topvevei, ra 5^ KoWo/xeXeiy Kal yucjfioTVTreT, KavTOfOfid^ei, Kal KTjpoxiJTeX, /cat yoyyvWei, Kal xoaj/eiyet. Thesmoph. 49. ^ It appears from the Banquet that he was Gorgias' pupil : his imitation of Gorgias is mentioned by Philostratus, de Soph. I. : 'Ayddiou 6 t^s rpayipdlas TroLrjTTjs dv 7] /cw/iy- 6ta co(f>6v re /cat KaXKLewri olde (in allusion to the last quotation) rroWaxou tCov ta/i/3etwi/ yopytd^ec : and by the Clarkian Scholiast on Plato (Gaisford, p. 173) : epupLdro 8^ tt]v KOfiipOTTjTa TTJs e^€OJS Topyiov rod prjTopos, ^ Tots 5^ XoiTTOis TO. a86/ji.€va ov p,aXov tov fi66ov, tj dXkrjs rpaycpdias iaTL' 61' 8 i/x^6ifji.a q.8ovai., irpuTov dp^avTos 'Aydduyos toco6tov. Aristot. Poet, xviii. 22. 3 Lect. V. ad fin. One of these was called the Flower. Aristot. Poet. ix. 7. ^ Schol. ad Aristoph. Ban. 85; ^lian, 7. //. ir. 21, xiil. 4; Clark. Scliol. Plato. P- 173- ^ Thesmoph. 29 sqq. 191, 192. ^ Ran. 84: 'H/9. 'Ayddcov 8k TodaTLv; At. aTroXiTrcii' (x diroix^Tai, ^ Ayadb^ TroirjTr]^ Kal wodavos rois 0iXots. '' Aristoph. Han. 86; Thesm. 169. s ^lian, V. H. ii. 8. On 'the son of Cleomachus' (A then. Xiv. 638 f) who defeated Sophocles, see Meineke, Fragm. Com. Ant. p. 28 ; Muller, Hist. Lit. Gr. i. p. 505 (new. ed.). D.T.G. 11