He was the author of songs and riddles, making some 3000 lines in all. The inscription on the tomb of Midas is said by some to be his ¢: I am a maiden of bronze and I rest upon Midas’s tomb. So long as water shall flow and tall trees grow, and the sun shall rise and shine, and the bright moon, and rivers shall run and the sea wash the shore, here abiding on his tearsprinkled tomb I shall tell the passers-by—Midas is buried here. The evidence they adduce is a poem of Simonides in which he says ?: Who, if he trusts his wits, will praise Cleobulus the dweller at Lindus for opposing the strength of a column to everflowing rivers, the flowers of spring, the flame of the sun, and the golden moon and the eddies of the sea? But all things fall short of the might of the gods; even mortal hands break marble in pieces ; this is a fool’s devising. The inscription cannot be by Homer, because he lived, they say, long. before Midas. The following riddle of Cleobulus is preserved in Pamphila’s collection © : One sire there is, he has twelve sons, and each of these has twice thirty daughters different in feature; some of the daughters are white, the others again are black; they are immortal, and yet they all die. And the answer is, ‘‘ The year.”