Laudator Temporis Acti

Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights praef. 19 (tr. J.C. Rolfe):

For those, however, who have never found pleasure nor busied themselves in reading, inquiring, writing and taking notes, who have never spent wakeful nights in such employments, who have never improved themselves by discussion and debate with rival followers of the same Muse, but are absorbed in the turmoil of business affairs — for such men it will be by far the best plan to hold wholly aloof from these "Nights" and seek for themselves other diversion.

erit autem id longe optimum, ut qui in lectitando, percontando,​ scribendo, commentando, numquam voluptates, numquam labores ceperunt, nullas hoc genus vigilias vigilarunt neque ullis inter eiusdem Musae aemulos certationibus disceptationibusque elimati sunt, sed intemperiarum negotiorumque pleni sunt, abeant​ a "Noctibus" his procul, atque alia sibi oblectamenta quaerant.