[506] Homer, "Iliad," i. 255.
[507] Literally "the artists of Dionysus." We know what they were from our author's "Quæstiones Romanæ," § 107: διὰ τί τοὺς περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον τεχνίτας ἱστρίωνας ῾Ρωμαῖοι καλοῦσιν;
[508] Compare "De Audiendis Poetis," § iv.
[509] Æschylus, "Septem contra Thebas," 593, 594.
[510] Pindar, "Fragm." 253.
[511] Demosthenes, "De Falsa Legatione," p. 406.
[512] Euripides, "Orestes," 251.
[513] A line from Euripides. Quoted also "De Adulatore et Amico," § xxxii.
[514] Compare "De Audiendo," §vi. See also Horace, "Satires," i, 4. 136, 137.
[515] The story is somewhat differently told, "Quæst. Conviv.," Lib. ii. § ix.