Hipponax
Hipponax , Poet Greek, born with Éphèse, flowered towards 540 av. J. - C. Driven out its fatherland by the tyrants who oppressed it, it went to be fixed at Clazomènes. he was especially exerted in the satire, and made himself frightening in this kind. One allots to him the invention of the Choliambe. There is of him only few fragments.
They were published by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Gœttingue, 1817, in-4, and in the Poetae graeci of Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, 1839.
The following aphorism is allotted to him: “Two days ago when a woman is a pleasure: the day when it is married and the day when it is buried. ”
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