(), a citizen of Tarentum, who, when the decree was
proposed for calling in the assistance of Pyrrhus, came into the assembly of the people, in
the garb of a reveller, and accompanied by a flute-player, as if just come from a banquet.
When the people laughed at him and called out to him to sing them a song, he
answered, " You are right to encourage men to sing and make merry now while they can, for when
Pyrrhus is arrived we shall have to lead a very different sort of life." By this artifice he
produced a great effect upon the assembly; but the decree was nevertheless carried. (Plut. Pyrrh. 13; Dio Cass. Fr. Vat. 45, p.
169, ed. Mai; Dionys. A. R. 17.13, 14.)