Hearken to him who has four ears

Explanation

of the disobedient. An oracle was given to Entimus the Cretan and Antiphemus the Rhodian, to beware of "the four-eared one"; this was a Phoenician pirate; they neglected the oracle and perished. Or, of one who has seen and heard much, as Aristophanes says. Others say the proverb bids us listen to those who tell the truth, for none is more truthful than Apollo, whom the Lacedaemonians, as Sosibius says, set up with four hands and four ears, because he was so seen by the men fighting at Amyclae.