Book 8
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And when Polyidas was giving himself airs, because his pupil Philotas had beaten Timotheus, he said, That he wondered at his being so ignorant as not to know that he makes decrees, and Timotheus laws. And he said to Areus the harp-player, who was annoying him, Play to the crows. ψάλλ’ ἐς κόρακας, parodying the common execration, βάλλ’ ἐς κόρακας. And once he was at Sicyon, when a leather-dresser was abusing him, and he said to the leather-dresser (νακοδέψης), O you κακόδαιμον νακόδαιμον. And Stratonicus himself, beholding the Rhodians dissolved in luxury, and drinking only warm drinks, said, that there were white Cyrenæans. And he called Rhodes itself the City of the Suitors,Alluding to the intemperance of the suitors of Pen lope, as de- scribed in the Odyssey. thinking that they were in no respect different from the Cyrenæans in debauchery, but only in complexion; and also because of the devotion to pleasure of the inhabitants, he compared Rhodes itself to the city of the Suitors.
