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5And again, when he was invited to hear the man who imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying: “I have heard the bird herself.”[48]Again, Menecrates the physician, who, for his success in certain desperate cases, had received the surname of Zeus, and had the bad taste to employ the appellation, actually dared to write the king a letter beginning thus: “Menecrates Zeus, to King Agesilaüs, greeting.” To this Agesilaüs replied: “King Agesilaüs, to Menecrates, health and sanity.”
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Notes
[48] Cf. the Lycurgus, xx. 5.