So spake he. But Pittacus, raising his staff, an old man’s weapon, said, ‘‘ See there, yonder boys will tell you the whole tale.” . The boys were whipping their tops to make them go fast and spinning them in a wide open space. ‘* Follow in their track,” said he. So he approached near, and the boys were saying, ‘‘ Keep to your own sphere.” When he heard this, the stranger desisted from aiming at the lordlier match, assenting to the warning of the boys. And, even as he led home the humble bride, so do you, Dion, keep to your own sphere. The advice seems to have been prompted by his situation. For he had married a wife superior in birth to himself: she was the sister of Draco, the son of Penthilus, and she treated him with great haughtiness. Alcaeus nicknamed him oapdzovs and cdpamos _ because he had flat feet and dragged them in walking ; also “ Chilblains,’”’ because he had chapped feet, for which their word was yepds ; and Braggadocio, because he was always swaggering; Paunch and Potbelly, because he was stout ; a Diner-in-the-Dark, _ because he dispensed with a lamp; and the Sloven, because he was untidy and dirty. The exercise he _ took was grinding corn, as related by Clearchus the philosopher. The following short letter is ascribed to him: Pittacus to Croesus “You bid me come to Lydia in order to see your prosperity : but without seeing it I can well believe that the son of Alyattes is the most opulent of kings. There will be no advantage to me in a journey to