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And Agathon the tragic poet has composed a similar passage, in his Telephus; for there also some illiterate man explains the way of spelling Theseus thus:— The letter which comes first is like a circle, Divided by a navel in the middle; Then come two upright lines well-join'd together; The third is something like a Scythian bow: Next comes a trident placed upon its side; And two lines branching from one lower stem: The last again the same is as the third. And Theodectes of Phaselus introduces an illiterate clown, who also represents the name of Theseus in his own way— The letter which comes first a circle is, With one soft eye; then come two upright lines Of equal and exact proportions, United by one middle transverse line; The third is like a wreathed curl of hair; The next a trident lying on its side; The fifth two lines of equal length above, Which below join together in one base; The sixth, as I have said before, a curl. And Sophocles has said something like this, in his Amphiaraus, which is a satyric drama, where he introduces an actor dancing in unison with his explanation of the letters.
