The story
of The Choice of Hercules used to be called, from Prodicus
(of Ceos, not Chios) Hercules Prodicius. Suidas says
that the title of the work quoted was Ωραι. The allegory is given
at length in Xenophon’s Memorabilia (II. i. 21) in Dion
Chrysostom’s Regnum, and in Cicero (De Officiis
i. 32), who refers to Xenophon. It is imitated in the
Somnium of Lucian.