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Aristomenes (actor)

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Aristomenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστομένης) was an actor of the Attic old comedy, who lived in the 2nd century AD during the reign of – and was a freed-man of – the Roman emperor Hadrian, who used to call him "Attic Partridge" (Ἀττικοπέρδιξ).

He was a native of Athens, and is also mentioned as the author of a work "On the Priesthood" (πρὸς τὰς ἱερουργίας), the third book of which is quoted by Athenaeus.[1] He is perhaps the same Aristomenes as the one mentioned by the Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes.[2]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSchmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Aristomenes (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 309.