Posidippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

1. One of the most eminent poets of the New Comedy at Athens, a native of Cassandrea, in Macedonia. He began to exhibit for the first time in the third year after the death of Menander, or in B.C. 289. Of his pieces, as many as forty are mentioned by name, but only fragments of them are preserved. It was probably in imitation of one of these that the Menaechmi of Plautus was written. 2. An Alexandrian writer of epigrams. Twenty-two of his poems are preserved in the Greek Anthology.