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Menippus of Gadara

Menippus

also: Menippus, Menippum

Cynic philosopher and satirist of the third century BC, who blended prose and verse in a comic-philosophical form. Cicero names him as the model (imitated, not translated) for his own Menippean Satires.

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Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention
Academica philosophy · 1 mention

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