Dionysius the Elder, when the speakers who were to address the people were drawing by lot the letters of the alphabet to determine their order of speaking, drew the letter M; and in answer to the man who [p. 31] said, ‘Muddle-head you are, Dionysius,’ he replied, ‘ No ! Monarch I am to be,’ and after he had addressed the people he was at once chosen general by the Syracusans. 1
1 Cf. Diodorus, xiii. 91-92.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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