While Antagoras the poet was cooking a congereel, and was shaking the skillet with his own hand, Antigonus stepped up behind him and said, ‘ Antagoras, do you imagine that Homer cooked a conger while he was writing of the exploits of Agamemnon ?’ To which Antagoras retorted. ‘And do you, Your Majesty, believe that Agamemnon, while he was performing those exploits, was overmuch concerned if anybody in the army cooked a conger ?’ 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 668 C, and Athenaeus, 240 F, who quotes as his authority Hegesander.
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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