Book 13
82
And Hieronymus of Rhodes, in his Historic Commen- taries, says that Sophocles was not always so moderate, but that he at times committed grater excesses, and gave Euripides a handle to reproach him, as bringing himself into disrepute by his excessive intemperance.
83
And Theopompus, in his treatise on the Treasures of which the Temple at Delphi was plundered, says that Asopichus, being a favourite of Epaminondas, had the trophy of Leuctra represented in relief on his shield, and that he encountered danger with extraordinary gallantry; and that this shield is consecrated at Delphi, in the portico. And in the same treatise, Theopompus further alleges that Phayllus, the tyrant of Phocis, was extremely addicted to women; but that Onomarchus used to select boys as his favourites: and that he had a favourite, the son of Pythodorus the Sicyonian, to whom, when he came to Delphi to devote his hair to the god (and he was a youth of great beauty), Onomarchus gave the offerings of the Sybarites-four golden combs. And Phayllus gave to the daughter of Diniades, who was a female flute-player, a Bromiadian,Schweighauser says this word is to him totally unintelligible. a silver goblet of the Phocæans, and a golden crown of ivy-leaves, the offering of the Peparethians. And, he says, "she was about to play the flute at the Pythian games, if she had not been hindered by the populace.
