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Colotes, whom Epicurus was wont diminutively and
by way of familiarity or fondness, to call Colotaras and
Colotarion, composed, O Saturninus, and published a little
book which he entitled, ‘That according to the opinions
of the other philosophers one cannot so much as live.’
This he dedicated to King Ptolemy. Now I suppose that
it will not be unpleasant for you to read, when set down in
writing, what came into my mind to speak against this
Colotes, since I know you to be a lover of all elegant and
honest treatises, and particularly of such as regard the
science of antiquity, and to esteem the bearing in memory
and having (as much as possible may be) in hand the discourses of the ancient sages to be the most royal of all
studies and exercises.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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