-in the night before the Panathenaia it seemed to Hipparchos that a man came and stood by him, tall and of fair form, and riddling spoke to him these verses:
Panatheneen bezperako gauean, garaiera handiko gizon dotore bat ikusten zuela aldamenean iruditu zitzaion Hiparkhori, bertso misteriotsu hauek zuzendu zizkiona: