Hence, if the dead should acquire the power of judging what has been said of them,
 Socrates would be as grateful to you for your accusation as to any who have been wont to
 eulogize him; while Busiris, even if he had been most tender-hearted toward his guests,
 would be so enraged by your account of him that he would abstain from no vengeance
 whatever! And yet ought not that man to feel shame, rather than pride, who is more loved
 by those whom he has reviled than by those whom he has praised? And you have been so careless about committing inconsistencies that you say Busiris
 emulated the fame of Aeolus and Orpheus, yet you do not show that any of his pursuits was
 identical with theirs. What, can we compare his deeds with the reported exploits of
 Aeolus? But Aeolus restored to their native lands strangers who were cast on his
 shores, Cf. Hom. Od.
 10.17-27 , where Aeolus furnishes escort for Odysseus. whereas Busiris,
 if we are to give credence to your account, sacrificed and ate them! Or, are we to liken his deeds to those of Orpheus? But Orpheus led the dead back from
 Hades, A reference to the myth of Orpheus and
 Eurydice. whereas Busiris brought death to the living before their day of
 destiny. Consequently, I should be glad to know what, in truth, Busiris would have done if
 he had happened to despise Aeolus and Orpheus, seeing that, while admiring their virtues,
 all his own deeds are manifestly the opposite of theirs. But the greatest absurdity is
 this—though you have made a specialty of genealogies, you have dared to say that Busiris
 emulated those whose fathers even at that time had not yet been born! Cf. Isoc. 11.37 for the same argument. 
 But that I may not seem to be doing the easiest thing in assailing what others have said
 without exhibiting any specimen of my own, The same
 sentiment occurs in Isoc. 10.15 . I will try briefly
 to expound the same subject — even though it is not serious and does not call for a
 dignified style — and show out of what elements you ought to have composed the eulogy and
 the speech in defense. Of the noble lineage of Busiris who would not find it easy to speak? His father was
 Poseidon, his mother Libya the daughter of
 Epaphus Cf. Aesch. PB 850 ,
 where Epaphus is said to be the son of Zeus and Io. the son of Zeus, and she,
 they say, was the first woman to rule as queen and to give her own name to her country.
 Although fortune had given him such ancestors, these alone did not satisfy his pride, but
 he thought he must also leave behind an everlasting monument to his own valor.