Compare "De Audiendis Poetis," § iv.

Æschylus, "Septem contra Thebas," 593, 594.

Pindar, "Fragm." 253.

Demosthenes, "De Falsa Legatione," p. 406.

Compare "De Audiendo," §vi. See also Horace, "Satires," i, 4. 136, 137.

The story is somewhat differently told, "Quæst. Conviv.," Lib. ii. § ix.