Corax, A learned man of Sicilie, who wrote first of Rhetoricke. He couenaunted with Lysias to teach him his science, vnder this condition, to haue halfe his money before hande, and the residue, when he sirst by pleading ouercame and obtained anye cause in iudgement, Lysias in processe of time prosited much in eluquence, and yet would not take vpd hym any cause to pleade. Which thing when he was thought to do of purpose to defeate his maister of the residue of hys money, Corax sued him in the lawe, and concluded the sum of his accusation in this subtill argumente: Learne thou, foolishe yong man that thou art, that whiche waye soeuer the matter nowe falleth out in iudgemente, thou muste pay mee my money: For if thou ouercome and caste mee, then is my money due, by the bargaine that was betweene vs: If I onercome, and the Iudges condemne thee to paye it, then is it due by law. To this aunswered Lysias: Nay sir not so (saith he) but vnderstande you (being so wise a man as you are) that you can haue the money of me by neither meanes. For if you ouercome in iudgement, then by the agreement betweene vs, can you require no money: for our bargaine was, you should haue it when I had first ouercome in iudgement: but if I cast you, how can you lawfully aske money at my hands, being quited and discharged by the sentence of the Iudges. Which when the Iudges hearde, beeing in admiration of the yong mans witte, saide:Kaxou_ xoeako\s xauo\r , that is, Mali corui malum ouum, A curst Crowe hathe hatched a shrewde egge: a craftie maister hach bred as craftie a scholler: alluding in the Greeke prouerbe to the name of Corax. Also Corax is an hil in Sarmatia, and a riuer running out of the hil Caucasus,