Pausanias Description of Greece 1.21.1

[1] In the theater the Athenians have portrait-statues [ eikones] of the poets [ poiētai] of tragedy [ tragōidiā] and comedy [ kōmōidiā], but they [= the statues] are mostly of undistinguished persons. With the exception of Menander no poet [ poiētēs] of comedy [ kōmōidiā] represented here won a reputation [ doxa], but tragedy [ tragōidiā] has two illustrious representatives, Euripides and Sophocles. It is said that after the death of Sophocles, when the Lacedaemonians invaded Attica, their commander saw in a vision Dionysus, who ordered him to honor [ tīmân], with all the customary honors [ tīmai] of the dead, the new Siren [ Seirēn]. It seemed to him that the dream [ onar] referred to Sophocles and his poetry [ poiēsis], and down to the present day people are used to liken to a Siren whatever is enchanting [ epagōgon] in both poetry [ poiēmata] and prose [ logoi].