An etiam de ingenio pauca vultis? Poeta fuit hic Philemon, mediae comoediae scriptor, fabulas cum Menandro in scaenam dictavit certavitque cum eo, fortasse impar, certe aemulus, namque eum etiam vicit saepenumero (pudet dicere).
unless perhaps you want a few words about his genius too. This Philemon was a poet, a writer of Middle Comedy, who wrote plays for the stage in Menanders time and competed with him, perhaps with less talent, but certainly with as much success, since he actually defeated him many times, I am sorry to say.