 Ausonius also refers to Periander as one of the Sages in his work "The Masque of the Seven Sages".Some scholars have argued that the ruler named Periander was a different person from the sage of the same name.Diogenes Laertius writes that "Sotion, and Heraclides, and Pamphila in the fifth book of her Commentaries say that there were two Perianders; the one a tyrant, and the other a wise man, and a native of Ambracia.