Miscellanies 6.2.26

You would find that even Homer, the great poet, took over word for word those lines, “As a man rears a flourishing sapling of olive,” and what follows, from Orpheus' Disappearance of Dionysus. And in the Theogony Orpheus composed of Cronus: “He lay with his thick neck bent aside, and all-conquering sleep took him”; and Homer transferred these lines to the Cyclops. And Hesiod composes in the Melampodia: “Sweet it is also to learn all that the immortals have ordained for mortals, a clear sign of the cowardly and the noble,” and what follows, taking it word for word from the poet Musaeus. Aristophanes the comic poet, in the first Thesmophoriazusae, transferred lines from Cratinus' Men on Fire. Plato the comic poet and Aristophanes in the Daedalus steal from each other. And the Cocalus, composed by Araros the son of Aristophanes, Philemon the comic poet altered and staged in his Changeling. The historians Eumelus and Acusilaus changed Hesiod's works into prose and published them as their own. Gorgias of Leontini and Eudemus of Naxos, the historians, stole from Melesagoras, and besides them Bion of Proconnesus, who also transcribed in summary the works of Cadmus of old; and Amphilochus, Aristocles, Leandrius, Anaximenes, Hellanicus, Hecataeus, Androtion, and Philochorus; and Dieuchidas of Megara transferred the beginning of his account from Hellanicus' Deucalioneia.