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1 They give the name of Seven-voicedA portico on the east side of the Altis; Cf. Pausanias, v. 21. 17, Pliny, Natural History, xxxvi. 15. 100. to the portico at Olympia which reverberates many times from a single utterance; and if but the least word sets garrulousness in motion, straightway it echoes round about on all sides, Touching the heart-strings never touched before.Cf. 456 c, 501 a, supra. Indeed one might think that babbler’s ears have no passage bored throughCf. Aristophanes, Thesm., 18: δίκην δὲ χοάνης ὦτα διετετρήνατο. to the soul, but only to the tongue.Cf. Philoxenus in Gnomologium Vaticanum, 547 (Wiener Stud., xi. 234). Consequently, while others retain what is said, in talkative persons it goes right through in a flux; then they go about like empty vessels,Cf. the proverb: Empty vessels make the loudest noise. void of sense, but full of noise.