MAGNES (c. 46o B.C.)

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MAGNES (c. 46o B.C.) , Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, a native of the deme of Icaria in Attica. His death is alluded to by Aristophanes (

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EQUITES (" horsemen " or " knights," from eques,"
horse
- HORSE (a word common to Teutonic
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  - LANGUAGES
  in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)
")

, 518523, which was brought out in 424 B.c.), who states that in his old age

Magnes

MAGNES (c. 46o B.C.)

had lost the popularity which he had formerly enjoyed. The few titles of his plays that remain, such as the Frogs, the Birds, the

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languages
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, cf. Dutch gal, and Ger. Galle; the Indo-
European
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root appears in Gr. xoXi,, and Lat. fel; possibly connected with " yellow," with reference to the colour of bile)
GALL, FRANZ
JOSEPH
- JOSEPH
- JOSEPH,
  COMTE
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    XAVIER
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    ] (1798-1857)
  DE (1785-1870)
- JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)
(1758-1828)

flies, indicate that he anticipated Aristophanes in introducing

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GROTESQUE

costumes for the chorus.
See T. Kock, Comicorum atticorum fragmenta, i. (188o); G. H. Bode, Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst, iii. pt. 2 (1840).

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