See the fourteenth book.

In fact, whoever was the author of this fictitious biography, he showed some tact in identifying Homer with certain events described in his poems, and in eliciting from them the germs of something like a personal narrative.
10 Dia logon estionto.

A common metaphor.

So Plato calls the parties conversing daitumones, or estiatores.Tim.i.p.522 A.Cf.

Themist.
Orat.vi.p.168, and xvi.p.374, ed.