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Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.
Menander: Poems
“From the time when Cassander returned to Macedonia … 52 years, in the archonship of Democleides at Athens （316-3 B.C.）. This was the year when the comic poet Menander won his first victory at Athens.”
Parian Chronicle
“ O Menander and Life, which of you imitated the other? ” Aristophanes of Byzantium
Inscriptions
Menander the comic poet; on Epicurus and Themistocles:
Hail twin Neocleids, saviours of our country, the one from servitude, the other from senselessness!1
Palatine Anthology: From Menander
Enjoy your goods as mortal, see to them as though immortal; in both there is fate to be feared.2
Ausonius Epigrams:
1 both had fathers called Neocles
2 the lost original was prob. before Lucian （?） when he wrote ‘Enjoy thy goods as about to die, but spare them as though about to live; wise is he who measures thrift and unthrift with understanding of both these things’; perh. M. wrote ‘in both there's due measure [ καιρός ] to be observed ’