he came,
Descending humbly to Calliope.

Amarantus of Alexandria, in his treatise on the Stage, says that
Herodorus, the Megarian trumpeter, was a man three cubits and a half in
height; and that he had great strength in his chest, and that he could
eat six pounds of bread, and twenty _litrae_ of meat, of whatever sort
was provided for him, and that he could drink two _choes_ of wine; and
that he could play on two trumpets at once; and that it was his habit to
sleep on only a lion's skin, and when playing on the trumpet he made a
vast noise. Accordingly, when Demetrius the son of Antigonus was
besieging Argos, and when his troops could not bring the battering ram
against the walls on account of its weight, he, giving the signal with
his two trumpets at once, by the great volume of sound which he poured
forth, instigated the soldiers to move forward the engine with great
zeal and earnestness; and he gained the prize in all the games ten
times; and he used to eat sitting down, as Nestor tells us in his
'Theatrical Reminiscences.' And there was a woman, too, named Aglais,
who played on the trumpet, the daughter of Megacles, who, in the first
great procession which took place in Alexandria, played a processional
piece of music; having a head-dress of false hair on, and a crest upon
her head, as Posidippus proves by his epigrams on her. And she too could
eat twelve _litrae_ of meat and four _choenixes_ of bread, and drink a
_choenus_ of wine, at one sitting.

There was besides a man of the name of Lityerses, a bastard son of
Midas, the King of Celaenae, in Phrygia, a man of a savage and fierce
aspect, and an enormous glutton. He is mentioned by Sositheus, the
tragic poet, in his play called 'Daphnis' or 'Lityersa'; where
he says:--

"He'll eat three asses' panniers, freight and all,
Three times in one brief day; and what he calls
A measure of wine is a ten-amphorae cask;
And this he drinks all at a single draught."

And the man mentioned by Pherecrates, or Strattis, whichever was the
author of the play called 'The Good Men,' was much such another; the
author says:--

"A.--I scarcely in one day, unless I'm forced, Can eat two bushels
and a half of food.
B.--A most unhappy man! how have you lost
Your appetite, so as now to be content
With the scant rations of one ship of war?"

And Xanthus, in his 'Account of Lydia,' says that Cambles, who was the
king