Book 10
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And the writings of Aristonymus were full of pompous ex- pressions: and Sosiphanes the poet said to Cephisocles the actor, reproaching him as a man fond of long words, I would throw a stone at your loins, if I were not afraid of wetting the bystanders. But the logical griphus is the oldest kind, and the one most suited to the natural character of such enigmatical language. What do we all teach when We do not know it ourselves and, What is the same nowhere and everywhere? and also, What is the same in the heavens and on the earth and in the sea? But this is a riddle arising from an identity of name; for there is a bear, and a serpent, and an eagle, and a dog, both in the heavens and on the earth and in the sea. And the other riddle means Time; for that is the same to all people and everywhere, because it has not its nature depending on one place. And the first riddle means How to live: for though no one knows this himself he teaches his neighbour.
