Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 1. ====== Demodocus: Poems ====== ===== Elegiacs ===== Now it is clear that lack of self-control is not a vice —though in a way perhaps it is, for it may or may not be deliberate; all the same the result is similar, as in the line of Demodocus on the Milesians:1 //The Milesians are not dolts, but they behave like dolts;// in the same way, the uncontrolled may not be knaves, but they behave like knaves. Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics ---- Demodocus: — Thus also spake Demodocus —//The Chians are bad men, not one bad and another not, but all save Procles, and Procles is a Chian.2// Palatine Anthology ---- ===== Tetrameters ===== “3He is said to have had a remarkable talent for pleading a cause, but he used the full strength of his oratory to a good end, and so it is this that Demodocus of Leros means in the line: //If ever thou go to law, prosecute thy case after the manner of Priene.4// Diogenes Laertius Life of Bias ---- 1 cf. Aspas. ad loc. , Plut. de Flum. 18 （?） 2 cf. Phocyl. i, which is perh. a parody in answer to D.'s attack on the Milesians （fr. 1） 3 cf. Suid. δικάζεσθαι 4 the technical terms do not correspond with Attic usage