Wyttenbach compares Quintilian, "Institut. Orat." iii. 6, p. 255: "Nam et Hippocrates clarus arte medicinæ videtur honestissime fecisse, qui quosdam errores suos, ne posteri errarent, confessus est."

Homer, "Odyssey," vi. 187.

Homer, "Odyssey," xxiv. 402.

Plato, "Republic," ix. p. 571, D.

A somewhat similar story about Stilpo is told in Athenæus, x. p. 423, D.

So Haupt and Herscher very ingeniously for ἱερεῦσιν.