Book XIV, 73: Oracle to the Megarians

Of all soils Pelasgian Argos is the best, and best are the horses of Thessaly, the women of Lacedaemon, and the men who drink the waters of lovely Arethusa; but better even than these are they who dwell between Tiryns and Arcadia, rich in sheep, the linen-cuirassed Argives, goads of war. But you, Megarians, are neither third, nor fourth, nor twelfth, nor in any reckoning or count.