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23 Nevertheless, this is the least of the evils, and we should turn garrulity into these channels; for talkativeness will be less unpleasant when its excesses are in some learned subject. Yet such persons must accustom themselves to do some writing and so argue all by themselves. So AntipaterVon Arnim, Stoic. Vet. Frag., iii. p. 244, Frag. 5. the Stoic, since, as it seems, he could not and would not come to close quarters with CarneadesCf. Aulus Gellius, xvii. 15. 1. and his violent attacks upon the Stoa, used to fill whole books with written disputations against him, and so earned the sobriquet of Pen-valiant. But with the talker, such shadowboxingCf. Plato, Laws, 830 a-c. with the pen and such alarums, by keeping him away from the multitude, may perhaps make him less of a daily burden to his associates, just as dogs that vent their anger on sticks and stones are less savage to men. And it will also be very advantageous for chatterers to frequent invariably the company of their superiors and elders, out of respect for whose opinion they will become accustomed to silence.