From—who now visits Herakles the Judge.

Instance "Medeia"! that play yielded palm

To Sophokles; and he again—to whom?

Euphorion! Why? Ask Herakles the Judge!'

'Ungarlanded, just means—economy!

Suppress robes, chaplets, everything suppress

Except the poet's present! An old tale

Put capitally by Trugaios—eh?

News from the world of transformation strange!

How Sophokles is grown Simonides,