Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae) 604b · 604b

Sophocles — σοι ἀρέσκει ἄρα, ὦ ξένε, τὸ Σιμωνίδειον, κάρτα δοκέον τοῖς Ἕλλησιν εὖ εἰρῆσθαι·
Sophocles, quoting Simonides — πορφυρέου ἀπὸ στόματος ἱεῖσα φωνὰν παρθένος,
Sophocles — οὐδ’ ὁ ποιητής, ἔφη, ⟨ ὁ ⟩ λέγων χρυσοκόμαν Ἀπόλλωνα· χρυσέας γὰρ εἰ ἐποίησεν ὁ ζωγράφος τὰς τοῦ θεοῦ κόμας καὶ μὴ μελαίνας, χεῖρον ἂν ἦν τὸ ζωγράφημα. οὐδὲ ὁ φὰς ῥοδοδάκτυλον· εἰ γάρ τις εἰς ῥόδεον χρῶμα βάψειε τοὺς δακτύλους, πορφυροβάφου χεῖρας καὶ οὐ γυναικὸς καλῆς ποιήσειεν ⟨ ἄν ⟩.’
Ion of Chios — γελασάντων δὲ ὁ μὲν Ἐρετριεὺς ἐνωπήθη τῇ ἐπιραπίξει, ὃ δὲ πάλιν τοῦ παιδὸς τῷ

…pleases you, stranger, the line of Simonides that the Greeks think so very well said: ‘a girl sending her voice from a crimson mouth’; nor,” he said, “the poet who calls Apollo golden-haired. For if the painter had made the god's hair golden and not black, the painting would be worse. Nor the one who said ‘rosy-fingered’: if someone dipped his fingers in rose dye, he would make the hands of a purple-dyer, not of a beautiful woman.” They laughed, and the Eretrian was abashed by the rebuke, and Sophocles turned back to the boy…