Plutarch, Alcibiades, chapter 20, section 4

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[4] and any kinsman or friend or comrade of his who fell foul of their wrath against him, found them exceedingly severe. Thucydides neglected to mention¹ the informers by name, but others give their names as Diocleides and Teucer. For instance, Phrynichus the comic poet² referred to them thus:—

Look out too, dearest Hermes, not to get a fall,
And mar your looks, and so equip with calumny
Another Diocleides bent on wreaking harm.

And the Hermes replies:—

I'm on the watch; there's Teucer, too; I would not give
A prize for tattling to an alien of his guilt.

1 In Thuc. 6.53.2.

2 Kock, Com. Att. Frag. i. p. 385.

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.

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