HIPPO'CRATESM
3. Is mentioned in several modern works as a comic poet on the authority of Pollux (
Onom. 9.57; comp. 4.173); but it is now certain that the reading in Pollux is corrupt, and that the name
Σωσικράτης must be substituted for it. (See Meineke,
Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 498, &c.)
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