person
Rhinthon of Tarentum
Rhinthon
also: Rhinto, Rhinton
Rhinthon of Tarentum (3rd c. BC), comic poet and founder of the burlesque "phlyax" tragicomedy (hilarotragedy); Cicero quotes a verse of his on the worthlessness of public men at Att. 1.20.3.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 1.20 §3 as Rhinto says
Rhinthon of Tarentum, a comic poet of the early third century BC; Cicero quotes (in Greek) his line that some men count for nothing and others care for nothing, a verdict on the inert nobility.