His works (written inside the mixture of prose and verse) are tons misused. He discussed good cases inside a spirit of banter, & especially delighted inside attacking the Epicureans and Stoics. His writings exercised considerable influence upon late literature. One of a dialogues attributed to Lucian, his avowed imitator, world health organization oft mentions him, is known as Menippus. However this dialogue is regarded by owning suspicion, & since a sub-title ("The Oracle of the Dead") resembles that of a operate ascribed to Menippus by Diogenes Laërtius, it has been suggested that these are really the function of Menippus himself, or even at any rate imitated from either his Necromancy per creator, whether Lucian. or even an additional. These are easily known that a Menippean satires of M. Terentius Varro, the fragments of which give an idea of this kind of composition, were called after Menippus of Gadara (see Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature, § 165, Tercet).

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