DIPHILUS

5th century B.C.
NO ONE IS HAPPIER THAN THE POOR BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AFRAID TO SUFFER WORSE
NO ONE IS HAPPIER THAN THE POOR BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AFRAID TO SUFFER WORSE - DIPHILUS

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Epic poet from whose work two choliambs survive. He seems to have written an epic entitled Theseis . Excerpts from his epic are perhaps those mentioned in Plutarch's Theseus. A Commentary on Pindar states: "... as Diphilos said, the poet of Thisis in iambus...". Another Commentary, on Aristophanes, states that Diphilus first composed an entire satirical poem against some Boides, which Eupolis and Aristophanes used as a model for their satirical poems against Socrates.

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  1. NO ONE IS HAPPIER THAN THE POOR BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AFRAID TO SUFFER WORSE
  2. HE WHO IS NOT ASHAMED OF HIMSELF, WHILE KNOWING ALL THE DIRTY DEEDS HE HAS DONE, HOW COULD HE BE ASHAMED OF ONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT WHAT HE HAS DONE