person

Aristophanes

also: Aristophaneo modo

The Athenian comic poet (c. 446-c. 386 BC); Cicero likens one of Quintus's letters to him for its blend of charm and weight.

Reading notes

Ad Atticum 12.6 §2 you put Aristophanes back in place of Eupolis
A point of textual scholarship: in his Orator Cicero had named the wrong poet of Old Comedy, and asks Atticus to have his copyists correct "Eupolis" to "Aristophanes" in the circulating copies. It shows how an author revised a work already in circulation through a friend's book-trade.