Among the Scythians there arose one philosopher, at Athens many; on the other hand at Abdera there are many fools, but few at Athens.The Scythian philosopher was Anacharsis.
ἐν Σκύθαις μὲν γὰρ εἷς ἀνὴρ ἐγένετο φιλόσοφος, Ἀθήνῃσι δὲ πολλοὶ τοιοῦτοι. πάλιν δ’ ἐν Ἀβδήροις ἀσύνετοι πολλοὶ, τοιοῦτοι δ’ Ἀθήνῃσιν ὀλίγοι.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Galen, Quod Animi Mores Corporis Temperamenta Sequantur (The Faculties of the Soul follow the Mixtures of the Body), Kühn, vol. IV, p. 822 (tr. John E.B. Mayor):