Practice Typing

7. How malicious philosophers can be. I know of nothing more stinging than the joke Epicurus took the liberty of making on Plato and the Platonists; he called them Dionysiokolakes. In its original sense, and on the face of it, the word signifies Flatterers of Dionysius consequently, tyrants accessories and lick spittles; besides this, however, it is as much as to say, They are all ACTORS, there is nothing genuine about them for Dionysiokolax was a popular name for an.