20. What shall I say of his revisals and alterations of sentences, frequently changed and upset at midnight, like the tides? For my fine fellow thought proper to play the judge, making everything his own out of vanity. But perhaps by blaming him for very trifling things I shall be thought to disparage very important matters through others inconsiderable; nevertheless, it must be owned that such conduct is not deserving of the Elysian Fields, nor of the glory of a Rhadamanthus in the next world, a lot which those of the same fraternity and set claim for him. One thing in his conduct I have to admire. Many of his former companions and acquaintances, principally from the schools in Asia, he summoned to him with all haste, as though about to do wonderful things for them, as he excited them to hope when they remembered his fine promises. But when they were arrived, 'twas the saying, "the deceits of counters and the illusions of dreams," for some he befooled in one way, some in another, for there were whom he entertained at table, and drank to, with much bawling out of "My friend," and after all sent them about their business disappointed, not knowing whom to blame the most----him for the deception, or themselves for their credulity.

Κʹ. Τί δ' ἂν εἰ λέγοιμι δικῶν μεταθέσεις καὶ μετακλίσεις διὰ μέσης νυκτὸς πολλάκις μεταβαλλομένων καὶ περιτρεπομένων, ὥσπερ ἀμπώτιδας: ἐπεὶ καὶ δικάζειν ὁ γεννάδας ἠξίου, πάντα ἑαυτοῦ διὰ φιλοτιμίαν ποιούμενος; Τάχα ἂν μικρὰ λίαν ἐγκαλεῖν δόξαιμι, καὶ τὰ μέγιστα τοῖς μικροῖς καθυβρίζειν. Πλήν γε ὁμολογείσθω, ὅτι οὐκ Ἠλυσίων πεδίων ἄξια ταῦτα, οὐδὲ τῆς Ῥαδαμάνθυος ἐκεῖσε δόξης, ἧς μοίρας ἀξιοῦσιν ἐκεῖνον οἱ τῆς αὐτῆς φατρίας τε καὶ τάξεως. Ἓν τῶν ἐκείνου θαυμάζειν ἔχω: πολλοὺς γὰρ τῶν αὐτῷ συνήθων τε καὶ γνωρίμων, ἐκ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν διατριβῶν μάλιστα, ἐκάλει μὲν κατὰ πᾶσαν σπουδὴν, ὡς δράσων θαυμάσια, οἷα καὶ ταῖς ἐλπίσιν ἐπτέρου, μεμνημένους τῶν ὑποσχέσεων: ἐπεὶ δὲ παρεῖεν, τοῦτο ἐκεῖνο αἱ τῶν ψήφων κλοπαὶ, καὶ τῶν ὄψεων ἀπάται: τοὺς μὲν τοὺς δὲ τὸν τρόπον, τοὺς δὲ τὸν διαπαίζων: ἔστι δὲ οὓς καὶ τραπέζῃ φιλοφρονούμενος, καὶ πολὺ τὸ Ἑταῖρε προπίνων, καὶ λαρυγγίζων ἀντ' ἄλλου τινὸς δελεάσματος, ἀπράκτους ἀπέπεμπεν, οὐκ ἔχοντας ὅτῳ μέμφονται πλέον, ἐκείνῳ τῆς ἀπάτης ἢ σφίσιν αὐτοῖς τῆς κουφότητος.