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Has wisdom departed the city?

Or is on the point of departing; for are not you also bound for the Piraeus?

I, my brother? What should I want at the Piraeus?

Our Libanius, then, is the only teacher who does not know that a ship has just arrived from Ephesus.

Why, my friend, what have I to do with that ship?

It is loaded to the water's edge with embryo philosophers

[Scornfully.] They come from Ephesus!

Is not gold equally weighty whencesoever it may come?

Gold? Ha-ha! The golden ones Maximus keeps to himself; he does not let them go. What sort of scholars is Ephesus wont to send us? Shop-*keepers' sons, the first-born of mechanics. Gold say you, my Julian? I call it lack of gold. But