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(ep-i-kär´mus), a Sicilian comic poet and philosopher of the Pythagorean school, born in the Island of Cos about 540 B.C. , died 450 B.C. He removed to Syracuse, where at the court of Hieron he spent the remainder of his life. He is credited with the invention of written comedy, and Plato called him "a master of the comic type".