Alexis was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period. He was born at Thurii in Magna Graecia and taken early to Athens, where he became a citizen, being enrolled in the deme Oion and the tribe Leontides. It is thought he lived to the age of 106 and died on the stage while being crowned. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles. Wikipedia
“Of all thy blessings reckon wealth the least,
For 'tis the least secure of our possessions.”
Fabulae Incertae, Fragment 37.
Mandragorizomene, Fragment 1, 14.
“Though Fortune now be smiling, it behoves
To look ahead, nor e'er to trust in Fortune.”
Fabulae Incertae, Fragment 42.
“Not in vain oaths should prudent men believe,
But put their trust in actions.”
Olynthia, Fragment 4.
