Comedy had already taken definite shape when comic poets, distinctively so called, are heard of.

Phrynichus, the comic poet, is mentioned again in The Frogs.

He has been confounded by some with his namesake the comic poet.

If the disrobing did happen, Posidippus would most likely have mentioned it because he was a comic poet.

In later times, this kind of poetry lost its popularity, and was ridiculed by the comic poets.

Another Philostephanus was a comic poet, of whom little is known.

Cinesias: An innovative poet, he was often ridiculed by comic poets.

He says that these allegations are repeated in a certain comic poet, namely Aristophanes.

He says they must remain nameless, except for Aristophanes, the comic poet.

The comic poets will also occasionally borrow a classical allusion.