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(παιγνιαγράφου τῆς ἱλαρᾶς μούσης, playful composer) seem to support, however, the opinion of Welcker, that Gnesippus was also a tragic poet, and that the description of his poetry given by Athenaeus refers to his choral odes, which traditionally were written in a standardized Doric form.

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*(Athen. xiv. p. 638, d. e.; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 7, 27—29; Welcker, die Griech. Trag. vol. iii. pp, 1024—1029.) . S.*J. Davidson, 'Gnesippus paigniagraphos: the comic poets and the erotic mime' *The fragments of Attic comedy, Volume 1 * Ancient Greek tragic poets Doric Greek poets 5th-century BC Greek people Ancient Greek erotic poets Ancient Greek lyric poets {{AncientGreece-poet-stub