Menander's vocabulary was carefully scrutinized by Phrynichus and Pollux, when they tried to define the purity of Attic language. Phrynichus excluded this playwright from his list of Attic writers, while Pollux accepted him in particular circumstances. This paper aims at reconstructing ways and means of the controversy, and discovers their echoes in some anonymous rhetorical scholia.
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