Kitap 4
6.34
This is why Timon speaks of him again as follows: And mixing sound sense with wily cavils.Or possibly with Wachsmuth: mixing jest in wily fashion (αἱμυλίως) with abuse. Hence, when a young man talked more boldly than was becoming, Arcesilaus exclaimed, Will no one beat him at a game of knuckle-bone? Again, when some one of immodest life denied that one thing seemed to him greater than another, he rejoined, Then six inches and ten inches are all the same to you? There was a certain Hemon, a Chian, who, though ugly, fancied himself to be handsome, and always went about in fine clothes. He having propounded as his opinion that the wise man will never fall in love, Arcesilaus replied, What, not with one so handsome as you and so handsomely dressed? And when one of loose life, to imply that Arcesilaus was arrogant, addressed him thusNauck, T.G.F.2, Adesp. 282.:
