Lucian of Samosata Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem 15

[15] They say that Dionysius ¹ used to write tragedy in a very feeble and ridiculous style, so that Philoxenus ² was often thrown into the quarries on account of it, not being able to control his laughter. Well, when he discovered that he was being laughed at, he took great pains to procure the wax-tablets on which Aeschylus used to write, thinking that he too would be inspired and possessed with divine frenzy in virtue of the tablets. But for all that, what he wrote on those very tablets was far more ridiculous than what he had written before: for example, and again, —for that came from the tablet; and so did this: The last line Dionysius might have addressed to you with especial fitness, and those tablets of his should have been gilded for it.