The New International Encyclopædia/Alexis of Thurii

ALEX′IS (Gk. Ἄλεξις) of Thurii. A Greek comic poet of the third century B.C. He was born at Thurii, in Magna Græcia, was uncle and instructor of Menander, and wrote at Athens, where, according to Plutarch, at the age of 106, he died on the stage while being crowned as victor. Suidas assigns to him 245 comedies, of which the remaining fragments exhibit elegance and wit. His delineations of the parasite were skillful. See the edition by Hirschig (1840) and Meinike, in his Fragmenta Comicorum, Volume I.