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“65. ὅτι δὲ τοὺς ἀσώτους καὶ τοὺς μὴ ἔκ τινος περιουσίας ζῶντας τὸ παλαιὸν ἀνεκαλοῦντο οἱ
[p. 262] Ἀρεοπαγῖται καὶ ἐκόλαζον, ἱστόρησαν Φανόδημος καὶ Φιλόχορος ἄλλοι τε πλείους. Μενέδημον γοῦν καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδην τοὺς φιλοσόφους νέους ὄντας καὶ πενομένους μεταπεμψάμενοι ἠρώτησαν πῶς ὅλας τὰς ἡμέρας τοῖς φιλοσόφοις συσχολάζοντες, κεκτημένοι δὲ μηδέν, εὐεκτοῦσιν οὕτω τοῖς σώμασι: καὶ οἱ ἐκέλευσαν μεταπεμφθῆναί τινα
τῶν μυλωθρῶν. ἐλθόντος δ᾽ ἐκείνου καὶ εἰπόντος ὅτι νυκτὸς ἑκάστης κατιόντες εἰς τὸν μυλῶνα καὶ ἀλοῦντες δύο δραχμὰς ἀμφότεροι λαμβάνουσι, θαυμάσαντες οἱ Ἀρεοπαγῖται διακοσίαις δραχμαῖς ἐτίμησαν αὐτούς. καὶ Δημόκριτον δ᾽ Ἀβδηρῖται δημοσίᾳ κρίνοντες ὡς κατεφθαρκότα τὰ πατρῷα, ἐπειδὴ ἀναγνοὺς αὐτοῖς τὸν μέγαν διάκοσμον καὶ τὰ περὶ τῶν ἐν Ἅιδου εἰπὼν εἰς ταῦτα ἀνηλωκέναι, ἀφείθη. ”
Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.
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