"The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light."
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The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment 422.
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Menander
Menander (Greek: Μένανδρος; 342 BC – 291 BC), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. He was the author of more than a hundred comedies, most of which are lost. Only one play, Dyskolos, has survived in its entirety.
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