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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Note 289 — BOOK III.

Charles Duke Yonge translation

Hipponax was a poet at Ephesus, and so deformed that Bupalus drew a picture of him to provoke laughter; for which Hipponax is said to have written such keen iambics on the painter that he hanged himself.

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