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In matter and manner, this little skit approximates very closely to the Cynic diatribe as exemplified in the fragments of Teles and in some portions of Epictetus.

It has a counterpart in the piece, On Funerals, so close that one is tempted to believe them both parts of the same screed, although they now stand some distance apart in Lucian's works; it may be, however, that this is simply a pendant to the other. They certainly belong together in some sense.