And the note upon it is as follows:--

"Dicitur de iis, qui pleno ore vanas suas laudes ebuccinant.

Eleganter Lacon quidam de luscinia dixit,--

[Greek: Ph_ona tu tis essi kai ouden allo,]

Vox tu quidem es et aliud nihil."

This must be the phrase quoted by Burton.

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