“So he exposed the babe on Mount Parthenius, and by the providence of the gods it was preserved: for a doe that had just cast her fawn customers in the market, says that it was a thousand times easier to get speech of a general than of a fishmonger ; for if you addressed one of these gentry and, pointing to a fish, asked ‘‘ How much?” he would not at first deign to look at ou, much less speak to you, but would stoop down, silent as…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. VII · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan