How Thin was Philitas?

Classical Quarterly 41 (02):534- (1991)
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The poet Philitas was so thin, they say, that he had to wear lead weights on his shoes to avoid being blown away by a gust of wind. We have two versions of the anecdote. First Aelian, Varia Historia 9.14

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Technical Terms in Aristophanes.J. D. Denniston - 1927 - Classical Quarterly 21 (3-4):113-.
The Lives of the Greek Poets.Dee Lesser Clayman & Mary R. Lefkowitz - 1983 - American Journal of Philology 104 (1):96.

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