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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2796168" data-attributes="member: 29014">I don't believe I have ever even seen him speak.  Indeed, in Hesiod's Theogony, one of our earliest sources from ancient Greece, we see the following,  So apparently he barks, not speaks.  Also:  So that's sort of wily, but it is mostly just an animalistic strategy, and this is the smartest we see him acting in the following sources:  Homer, The Iliad Homer, The Odyssey Hesiod, Theogony Greek Lyric IV Bacchylides, Fragments Apollodorus, The LibraryAristophanes, Peace Aristophanes, Frogs  Euripides, HeraklesCallimachus, Fragments Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy Strabo, Geography Pausanias, Guide to Greece  Diodorus Siculus, The Library of HistoryPlutarch, Lives Hyginus, Fabulae Virgil, Aeneid Ovid, Metamorphoses Propertius, Elegies Cicero, De Natura Deorum Valerius Flaccus, The Argonautica Statius, Thebaid Statius, Silvae Apuleius, The Golden AssMostly he is tricked, or assuaged by sweet cakes (sometimes these are drugged, like in the Aeneid).I would guess the intelligence is an artefact of 1e's Deities and Demigods then, but I may have missed something (though if I did, it was probably more apocryphal than the sources I included).  Hope this helps!</blockquote>