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the part of accuser by Eurymedon, who was ashamed to appear himself in the business). And he rested the charge of impiety on the fact of his having been accustomed to sing at banquets a pæan addressed to Hermias. But that this song has no characteristic whatever of a pæan, but is a species of scolium, I will show you plainly from its own language—

O virtue, never but by labour to be won, First object of all human life, For such a prize as thee There is no toil, there is no strife, Nor even death which any Greek would shun; Such is the guerdon fair and free, And lasting too, with which thou dost thy followers grace,— Better than gold, Better than sleep, or e'en the glories old Of high descent and noble race. For you Jove's mighty son, great Hercules, Forsook a life of ease; For you the Spartan brothers twain Sought toil and danger, following your behests With fearless and unwearied breasts. Your love it was that fired and gave To early grave Achilles and the giant son Of Salaminian Telamon. And now for you Atarneus' pride, Trusting in others' faith, has nobly died; But yet his name Shall never die, the Muses' holy train Shall bear him to the skies with deathless fame, Honouring Jove, the hospitable god, And honest hearts, proved friendship's blest abode.

52. Now I don't know whether any one can detect in this any resemblance to a pæan, when the author expressly states in it that Hermias is dead, when he says—

And now for you Atarneus' pride, Trusting in others' faith, has nobly died.

Nor has the song the burden, which all pæans have, of Io Pæan, as that song written on Lysander the Spartan, which really is a pæan, has; a song which Duris, in his book entitled The Annals of the Samians, says is sung in Samos. That also was a pæan which was written in honour of Craterus the Macedonian, of which Alexinus the logician was the author, as Hermippus the pupil of Callimachus says in the first book of his Essay on Aristotle. And this song is sung at Delphi, with a boy playing the lyre as an accompaniment