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Let someone knock out two or three teeth for them, as they did to Bupalus; they won't talk so loud then.
Lysistrata 2000
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The sculptor Bupalus was driven to kill himself by the recited poetry of Hipponax.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Let someone knock out two or three teeth for them, as they did to Bupalus; [417] they won't talk so loud then.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Apparently Aristophanes alludes here to a verse in which Hipponax threatened to beat Bupalus.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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And perhaps they'll learn, like Bupalus, not to have too much to say.
Lysistrata 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The satiric poet Hipponax, who was extremely ugly, having been portrayed by Bupalus as even more unsightly-looking than the reality, composed against the artist so scurrilous an invective that the latter hung himself in despair.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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[417] Bupalus was a celebrated contemporary sculptor, a native of
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Augustus brought many of the works of Bupalus and Athenis to Rome, and placed them on the gable of the temple of Apollo Palatinus.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Chios, Bupalus and Anthermus, he repaid them so well in their own coin, that they also duly hanged themselves.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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Bupalus, a sculptor of the Isle of Scio, is said to have produced this master-piece.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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