Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

He caused Epieharmus the comic poet to be punished because he made an indecent remark in the presence of his wife.

Dionysius the Elder, when the speakers who were to address the people were drawing by lot the letters of the alphabet to determine their order of speaking, drew the letter M; and in answer to the man who

said, Muddle-head you are, Dionysius, he replied, No ! Monarch I am to be, and after he had addressed the people he was at once chosen general by the Syracusans. [*](Cf. Diodorus, xiii. 91-92.)