Epictetus Enchiridion and Cebes Tabula (1660)

Against the Ignorant Book-Collector original Greek: πρὸς βιβλία ὠνούμενον (Pros biblia onoumenon); Latin: ad ineruditum, & multos coëmentem libros:

"And in our own age," Lucian says, "there was someone—and I believe he is still alive—who bought the clay lamp original: fictilem lucernam of the Stoic Epictetus for three thousand drachmas A drachma was a silver coin; three thousand was an enormous sum for a simple clay lamp, equivalent to several years' wages for a laborer. For he hoped, I believe, that if he read by that lamp every night, the wisdom of Epictetus...