[13] But why do I talk to you of Orpheus and Neanthus, when even in our own time there was and still is, I think, a man who paid three thousand drachmas for the earthenware lamp of Epictetus the Stoic: He thought, I suppose, that if he should read by — that lamp at night, he would forthwith acquire the wisdom of Epictetus in his dreams and would be just like that marvellous old man.
Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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