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Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

Joseph Addison
Thinking, Generations, Firsts
Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.178
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.