Book 1
13
‘You will do what is right, men of Delphi, if you offer sacrifice in my behalf with my ambassadors, and if you set the bull up in a fair place in the temple-close, that all may know how I deal with bad men and how I requite their extravagant inclinations toward wickedness. Indeed, this affair of itself is enough to show my character: Perilaus was punished, the bull was dedicated without being kept to pipe when others were punished and without having played any other tune than the bellowings of its maker, and his case sufficed me to try the invention and put an end to that uninspired, inhyman music. At present, this is what I offer the god, but I shall make many other gifts as soon as he permits me to dispense with punishments.’
