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Τί μοι συμβάλλεται πρὸς ὠφέλειαν ὁ κατὰ τὸν Εὐριπίδην μαινόμενος καὶ τὴν Ἀλκμαίωνος μητροκτονίαν ἀπαγγέλλων, ᾧ μηδὲ τὸ οἰκεῖον πρόσεστι σχῆμα, κέχηνέ τε μέγα καὶ ξίφος περιφέρει καὶ κεκραγὼς πίμπραται καὶ φορέει στολὴν ἀπάνθρωπον; Ἐῤῥέτω καὶ τὰ Ἀκουσιλάου μυθολογήματα, καὶ Μένανδρος τῆς ἐκείνου γλώττης ὁ στιχοποιός. Τί μοι καὶ τεθηπέναι τὸν μυθικὸν αὐλητήν; Τί δέ μοι καὶ καὶ Ἀριστόξενον τὸν Θηβαῖον Ἀντιγενίδην πολυπραγμονεῖν; Παραχωροῦμεν ὑμῖν τὰ μὴ ὠφέλιμα· καὶ ὑμεῖς ἢ πείσθητε τοῖς δόγμασι ἡμῶν, ἢ κατὰ τὸ ὅμοιον τῶν ὑμετέρων ἡμῖν ἐκχωρήσατε
What does it contribute to my benefit, the man who, after the manner of Euripides, plays the madman and reports the matricide of Alcmaeon, who has not even his proper appearance, but gapes wide and carries about a sword, and shrieking is consumed, and wears an inhuman costume? Away with the fables of Acusilaus too, and Menander the versifier of that man's tongue. What good does it do me to be amazed at the mythic flute-player? And why should I busy myself about Aristoxenus, or the Theban Antigenidas? We yield to you the things that are not beneficial; and you either be persuaded by our doctrines, or, in like manner as we yield yours, withdraw from us.
那效法歐里庇得斯裝瘋、稟報阿爾克邁翁弒母之事的人，於我有何益處呢？他連自己本來的模樣都沒有，卻張著大口、佩著刀劍、嘶喊著耗盡自己，又穿著一身不像人的戲服。亞庫西勞斯的神話也滾開罷，還有那把那人言語編成詩句的米南德。我去驚嘆那神話中的吹笛者，於我有何益處？我又何必去操心阿里斯托克塞諾斯，或底比斯人安提革尼達斯呢？凡無益之事我們都讓給你們；你們或是被我們的道理說服，或是照我們讓出你們之事的樣式，從我們這裡退去罷。