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 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. Cf. Diodorus, xiii. 91-92.