What does it contribute to my benefit, the man who, after the manner of Euripides, plays the madman and reports the matricide of Alcmaeon, who has not even his proper appearance, but gapes wide and carries about a sword, and shrieking is consumed, and wears an inhuman costume? Away with the fables of Acusilaus too, and Menander the versifier of that man's tongue. What good does it do me to be amazed at the mythic flute-player? And why should I busy myself about Aristoxenus, or the Theban Antigenidas? We yield to you the things that are not beneficial; and you either be persuaded by our doctrines, or, in like manner as we yield yours, withdraw from us.