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Sophocles

A celebrated tragic poet of Athens.

He was distinguished also as a statesman, and exercised the office of archon with credit and honor. He wrote for the stage, and obtained the poetical prize on twenty different occasions. He was the rival of Euripides for public applause, each having his admirers.

He died at the age of ninety-one, 406 years before Christ.

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