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Aristotle (Hist. An. ) 4.5: 61 , 78 , 157 , 253 , 261 6.579b: 80 4.10: 179 4.11: 193 Cicero ( de Republica ) 4.14: 74 , 146 1.16– 17: 209 – 211 5.21: 204 – 206 Columella (Rust. ) 6.3: 20 , 183 – 187 11.3.65: 53 6.17: 222 – 224 7.5: 74 Epictetus (Disc. ) 7.6: 116 1.24: 57 7.13: 44 – 45 , 133 1.26: 58 7.18: 133 2.4: 214 9.4: 62 , 115 – 120 , 123 – 134 , 155 9.7: 66 Galen (On the Order of his Own Books ) 9.13: 246 – 247 58: 167 9.15: 61 – 62 , 228 – 230 Gellius, Aulus (NA ) 9.16: 21 , 128 Pr. 2: 71 10.1: 180 Pr. 8: 112 10.12: 28 , 29 – 30 , 135 – 140 Pr. 11– 12: 71 10.17: 27 – 28 Pr. 25: 54 10.25- 27: 12 cap. 1.4: 60 11.15: 132 cap. 4.5: 61 11.16: 24 – 25 , 27 , 32 cap. 9.15: 62 12.3: 180 – 181 1.1: 23 12.5: 30 , 46 1.2: 11 , 39 – 41 , 50 – 51 , 56 , 206 , 217 , 239 12.13: 224 – 225 1.3: 24 13.7: 78 – 82 1.4: 60 – 61 13.9: 181 – 182 1.7: 175 – 177 , 179 13.13: 76 1.10: 245 , 253 13.21: 175 – 177 , 179 1.11: 151 13.25: 62 1.23: 146 – 147 14.1: 249 – 250 1.26: 50 14.2: 248 – 249 2.2: 11 – 12 , 44 – 46 , 58 14.5: 63 2.22: 237 – 239 14.6: 19 , 36 , 72 , 243 2.23: 73 , 188 , 192 15.2: 31 , 63 2.26: 247 15.6: 175 , 177 , 179 2.29: 29 , 255 16.1: 145 – 146 3.5: 29 16.3: 247 3.15: 200 16.6: 116 3.16: 191 – 201 16.8: 72 – 73 4.1: 240 – 242 16.10: 160 , 232 – 233 275

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Gellius, Aulus (NA) (cont.) Pliny the Elder (NH ) 16.11: 77 – 78 , 132 Pr. 17: 89 17.2: 74 , 144 – 145 Pr. 19: 91 17.3: 47 Pr. 33: 54 17.5: 226 – 227 17.15: 141 17.6: 160 Pliny the Younger (Ep. ) 17.8: 42 , 45 3.15: 120 – 123 17.9: 189 Plutarch (How the Young Man Should Study 17.14: 253 , 261 Poetry ) 17.15: 72 , 142 14F: 93 17.20: 42 – 43 , 46 , 62 – 63 , 239 , 248 28E: 93 18.2: 47 , 50 , 51 Plutarch (On Curiosity ), 32 18.4: 224 521C– D: 24 – 28 18.5: 230 – 231 Plutarch (On the Right Way of Listening to 18.6: 31 Lectures ) 18.7: 248 37D– E: 95 18.10: 46 – 48 , 234 48D: 94 18.13: 47 , 50 – 51 Plutarch (Progress in Virtue ) 19.1: 40 – 41 , 48 , 56 , 116 , 259 79C– D: 97 19.5: 199 Plutarch ( Quaestiones Conviviales ) 19.7: 74 – 75 736C– 748B: 212 – 213 19.10: 222 20.1: 1 , 7 – 12 , 243 – 244 Quintilian (Inst .) 20.2: 164 – 165 10.1: 85 – 87 20.10: 233 – 234 10.1.131: 86 20.11: 253 10.1.19: 143 – 144 10.1.7– 8: 149 – 150 Justinian (Digest ) 10.2: 87 1.2.2.36– 47: 165 10.2.26: 87

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active listening, 97 , 220 , 252 Ateius Capito, 74 , 146 , 179 active reading, 73 , 76 – 77 , 84 , 97 , 220 , 252 Athenaeus, 1 like a bee gathering honey, 97 – 98 Athens adulescentes , ignorant, 228 – 230 as symbol of Hellenic learning, 37 adultery importance of returning to Rome from, 40 Epictetus on, 214 only 26 of 398 essays set there, 40n45 Aelius Melissus, 31 , 163 voyage home from, 40 Aelius Stilo, L., 73 where Gellius learned his methods, 38 – 48 Aesop, 29 , 30 , 218 – 219 , 254 – 255 auctoritas , 129 – 130 alea , 47 audience, intended Alfenus, 74 of this book, 4 amanuensis , 174 , 175 , 178 , 188 Augustine, 20 – 21 , 84n46 , 101 – 102 , 259 Ammonius, 212 – 213 Augustus, 151 , 260 anonymous interlocutors authority governor, 46 of written vs spoken word, 261 – 262 grammatici , 217n36 , 234 autobiography, intellectual in Epictetus, 57 Gellius’ is fractured and episodic, 36 – 37 miscellanist – possibly Favorinus, 243 autograph manuscripts, 159n4 pedant, 205 Axius, Quintus, 183 – 184 , 187 , 253 rhetorician, 46 young man, 61 bee, as metaphor for active reader, 97 – 98 Anteia, 26 Bellerophon, 26 antiquarianism, 3 – 4 , 10 blogs and blogging, 108 – 110 Antonine Rome, 7 , 11 , 65 , 67 , 71 , 81 , 110 , 259 booklessness and Athens, 208 , 256 three modes, 143 Antonius Julianus, 60 – 62 , 219 , 228 – 231 , 241 books Antonius, M. exist virtually between readings, 152 in Cicero’s De Oratore , 209 lust for big ones, 72 Apuleius, 25 – 27 , 32 physical copies of, 24 – 25 , 102n116 , Aquilius Gallus, 165 107n134 , 119 archaism read at Favorinus’ table, 246 a Gellian value, 254 stultifying and sickening if written without Archilochus, 99 editorial discretion, 34 archives bookstores, intellectual encounters in, 116n5 Noctes Atticae not one, 7 , 156 bookstores, Roman, 116 Archytas, 138 , 140 , 219 Browne, Charlotte Elizabeth, 105 Aristeas, 117 , 124n21 , 125 , 126 Brundisium, 116 , 117 , 119 , 123 , 124 , 259 Aristotle, 79 , 80 – 82 , 172 , 193 , 198 – 201 , 209 Aristoxenus, 172 Caecilius, Archaic comic poet, 192 – 196 Arrian (editor of Epictetus). See Epictetus Caecilius, contemporary jurist, 7 – 10 , 233 , Arulenus Rusticus, 26 243 – 244 277

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canon of classical literature Crassus, L. Licinius, 209 establishment and guardianship of, 2 Crete capita rerum , 23n7 , 53 , 54 – 55 , 59 – 60 , 63 – 64 governor of, 11 , 44 captio , 45 – 47 , 219 Plato’s Laws set on, 45n56 Carmentis, mother of Evander, 253 – 254 pseudo- philosopher from, 45n56 Carneades, 141 critical research, exemplii ed, 191 – 201 Castricius, Titus, 227 cryptography, 188 – 189 Cato the Elder, 5 , 253 , 258 Ctesias, 117 as source and authority, 39 Cynics and Cynicism, 214 orations, 146 – 148 , 160 – 163 , 183 – 187 , 249 Cato the Younger dark matter, as analogy for NA , 5 in Cicero’s De Finibus , 2n3 Democritus, 27 – 28 , 135 – 140 , 219 Cato , tragedy of Maternus, in Tacitus’ Dialogus , dialogue 211n21 as part of a larger whole in Epictetus, 215 Catullus , 48 – 49 , 91 Ciceronian vs Aristotelian, 209 – 210 Celsinus, 74 – 75 , 222 heroes and villains in, 205 – 206 Cervantes, Miguel de, 104 in Epictetus, 57 – 59 chameleons, magical, 135 – 136 , 137 , 139 in Gellius, 11 , 16 – 17 , 199 , 204 – 231 , 250 – 251 , chance encounters 259 – 260 with people, 10 , 205 – 206 , 218 not just a spice for dull with texts and facts, 70 , 217 , 231 antiquarianism, 207 Chilo , 24 literariness of Gellian, 207 Christianity, and reading, 102 – 103 Platonic and Ciceronian, 208 – 211 Chrysippus, 41 reality and unreality of, 209 Cicero Varronian and Tacitean, 211 and Plato, 9 Digest , Justinian’s, 165 , 191 and Tiro, 16 , 176 – 185 , 188 digital media, 189 as source and authority, 39 , 132 , 151 , 196 , 225 , disorder, as a theme of NA , 2 – 3 , 21 , 260 245 , 248 compared to Catullus, 48 – 50 as writer of dialogues, 208 – 211, 216 exemplii ed by episodes with Taurus, 50 – 51 de Divinatione , 172 Domitius Insanus, 248 , 254 de Finibus , 2n3 Domitius Piso. See Piso, Domitius de Gloria , 177 – 178 de Oratore , 209 , 210 editorial discretion, 34 in Verrem , 176 – 177 emperor, reigning orations, unspecii ed, 60 , 227 excluded from Gellius’ stories, 10 – 11 pro C. Rabirio , 180 – 181 in Gellius, 8 , 10 – 11 cinaedus , 29 in Pliny the Elder, 88 – 89 city, as urban space, in Plutarch, 26 in Pliny the Younger, 54 clarity, a Favorine value , 245 , 254 in Plutarch, 26 classicism Ennianist, 230 in and of Gellius, 22 , 263 Ennius, 5 , 20 , 116 , 132 , 222 – 223 , 230 – 234 , 258 Claudius Quadrigarius, Q., 11 , 44, Epictetus, 21 , 40 – 41 , 55 – 59 228 , 246 as author of dialogues, 16 , 211 – 212 , 213 – 214 , 217 Claudius, Appius, 165 Gellius’ mentions of, 56n86 Collins, Wilkie, 105 – 106 on adultery, 214 Columella table of contents, 55 – 59 , 258 table of contents, 53 – 54 , 56 essentialism, medial, 189 – 190 commentary on commentary – Gellius on Tiro ethics on Cato, 183 – 187 and language, 254 commentum, comminiscor, and commentary , of reading, 255 138 , 219 consilium , 33 , 34 , 36 , 71 , 94 , 259 – 261 fashioning consistency and inconsistency of intellectual personae, 3 in Gellius and Montaigne, 261 of reader into solver of problems, 251 controversia, pun on, 230 of self and others, 3

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Fates, names of, 194 geometers Favorinus, 2 , 196 , 199 , 235 – 250 in Plutarch’s dialogue, 213 always speaks with Gellius’ words, 236 , 250 grammatici , 63 , 79 , 162 – 163 , 196 , 206 , 217 – 218 , ambiguous gender identity of, 8 , 13 220 – 226 , 230 – 234 and Greekness as performance, 258 even the best are of limited usefulness, as Gellian mirror- image, 250 225 – 226 contrasted with Taurus, 235 ubiquitous in Gellius’ Rome, 221 erotic feeling for language, 246 – 248 Greek and Latin his love of clarity , 245 , 254 mingling of, 207 limitations of, 246 , 248 – 250 Greek and Roman on pleonasm and close reading, 55 Gellius’ world as synthesis of, 258 – 259 quoted, 1 Herodes Atticus’ blend of, 39 unique qualities of, 17 , 207 i ction, early modern, and the history of Hadrian, 195 , 198 – 199 , 200 , 201 , 227 reading, 103 – 104 haruspices, 157 , 170 – 171 , 261 Foucault, Michel, 255 Hegesias, 117 frame, NA 1.2, 19.1 as, 42 hellebore, 72 , 141 – 142 Fronto, M. Cornelius, 83 , 217 , 219 , 222 – 223 , 238 , Heraclitus (Ephesius vir ), 33 – 34 244 , 247 Herodes Atticus, 38 – 40 , 217 , 219 , 239 , 249n121 estate at Cephisia, 46 , 206 , 234 Galen, 166 – 168 , 187 , 193 his name is i rst word of NA 1.2, 39 catalogue of his own books, 116n5 Herodotus, 77 – 81 , 125 , 219 Gavius Bassus, 162 Hesiod, 78 , 170 – 171 , 253 Gellius, Aulus Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Corpus, anticipates negative reader responses, 64 166 – 167 , 193 – 198 arc of learning illustrated by NA 1.2, 19.01, 42 Histiaeus, 188 – 189 as intellectual everyman, identii ed with no historical reality profession, 234 not an interest of Gellius, 257 Book 1, 254n4 historicization, literary, needed to read Gellius, 20 Book 2, 237 Hodgman, John, 1 , 6n11 , 255 – 256 Book 13, 82n37 Homer Book 18, 51n71 , 254n4 as authority, 177 – 178 changed by his time in Athens, 38 – 48 on lions, 79 classicism in and of, 263 on pregnancy, 196 – 197 , 200 early editions, 23n7 as source of tags, 45 frequent unannounced source of Montaigne, 261 Iliad , 67 interlinking of adjacent essays, 12 trivialities, isopsephic and headless literary form of NA , 21 – 22 , 257 lines, 36 , 99 NA as translation from Greek, 259 Horace, 39 , 48n65 , 260 NA , apparent disorder of, 2 – 3 , 21 Horatii (triplets), 245 NA , multiple opening points of, 23 Horatius Cocles, 170 NA , past and present in, 3 – 4 Hugh of St. Victor, 103 NA , what is it?, 4 – 7 , 12 – 13 Hyginus, Julius, 162 , 164 older and younger selves, 3 Noctes Atticae , 2 – 4 information overload Preface, 11 , 13 , 31 , 33 – 34 , 35 , 64 , 77 , 78 in the i rst century CE , 100 reading NA sequentially or out of order, 51 – 52 inlecebra , 28n19 , 257 Romanness of the Noctes Atticae , 235 inlecebra audiendi , 29 , 220 , 254 table of contents, 52 – 53 , 54 – 55 interiority, 3 , 259 trains his readers to read, 202 – 203 internet, 108 – 109 unknown outside of NA , 19 intertextuality, 27 , 123 , 139 , 142 , 179 , 236 Gellius, Gnaeus, 56n88 intra Kalendas , 224 Gellius, L. (dedicatee of Epictetus’ intratextuality, 3 , 12 Discourses), 56 Isigonus, 117 , 125 , 126 genre, literary Isocrates, 101 of NA unclear, 19 ius trium liberorum , 198 , 201

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Julianus. See Antonius Julianus NA as, 6 , 12 – 13 , 22 Julius Caesar, 179 worthlessness of, according to Plutarch, 36 Julius Paulus, 233 Montaigne, Michel de, 260 – 262 jurists, as bad as grammatici , 232 – 234 mos maiorum , 9 Mucius Scaevola, Q., 165 , 209 , 210 knowledge nature of, 2 Naples and Neapolitans, 61 , 230 vs action, 255 Naples, Bay of, 228 narrative Laberius, 20 , 132 and autobiography in NA , 36 , 48 language Neoplatonism, 103 and ethics, 254 Nero, 260 lector , 82 , 178 , 181 night writing Lesbia, Catullus’, 48 – 50 as symbol of private and intensive study, 37 lex Iulia , 198 Nigidius Figulus, 239 libraries Nymphodorus, 133 ancient, 2 , 6 , 257 Noctes Atticae not one, 7 Odyssey lictor , 180 – 181 i, 196 lies, transmitted like rabies, 216 Livius Andronicus’ translation, 194 , 196 literary historicization, needed to read olive trees, legend about, 66 Gellius, 20 Onesicritus, 117 Livius Andronicus, 194 , 196 opici , ‘Oscan’, ethnic slur, 181 , 237 Livius Drusus, 141 opii ces , 222 Livy, 89 opinio , 172 , 192 – 193 , 196 , 202 – 203 Loch Ness Monster, 256 locus amoenus , 40 , 41 Pandects , 182 Lucian, 9n17 , 16 , 114 , 211 – 216 Papirius Praetextatus, 146 – 147 Philopseudes , h e Lover of Papirius, L., 200 – 201 Lies , 211 – 216 paradoxes, 61 , 94 Pseudo- Lucian, Onos , 25n13 of archaism, 159 , 246 Lucius, protagonist of Apuleius’ Golden Ass , 25 of identity in Favorinus, 235 , 246n113 , 250 lucubratio , 42 , 75 , 83 , 127 of the NA , 2 – 4 lust, for big books, 72 paradoxography, 62 , 123 paratext, 52 – 53 , 63 – 64 , 133 Macrobius, 261 – 262 penus , vs. thesaurus , 89 , 153 , 240 – 242 manuscripts philosophy authority of, 176n62 has much to teach, little to emulate, 255 Marsi, 77 – 78 Piso, Domitius, 89 – 90 Martial, 107n134 Plato Masurius, 200 – 201 Apuleius’ Platonism, 25 – 26 McLuhan, Marshall, 107 as writer of dialogues, 208 – 211 medial essentialism, 189 – 190 concerns about “poetry,” 104 Megasthenes, 133 Laws , 8 – 9 , 31 , 45n56 , 258 Melissus. See Aelius Melissus Phaedrus , 101 , 209 , 228 memory Platonic style, 42 – 43 and leaving the book behind, 143 – 147 Plutarch’s Platonism, 92 Menander, 192 – 193 Symposium , 42 , 63 , 209 meta- knowledge, 4 , 77 , 205 , 251 Plautus, 152 , 162 , 192 , 223 metaphilology, 25 pleonasm, and close reading, 55 Metellus Numidicus, 227 Plinies Miéville, China, 5 Gellius owes as much to the Younger as to the mining for artifacts Elder, 143 in and by Gellius, 89 – 90 relations of the Elder and Younger Pliny, 113 miscellany Pliny connected to the erotic, 155n93 NH ( Natural History ), 156

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Pliny the Elder, 15 – 16 , 20 , 88 – 92 , 258 about reading, 83 – 84 , 110 – 111 carelessness of, 21 about writing, 106 criticized by Gellius, 114 – 115 across the text, 38 – 48 described by Pliny the Younger, 120 – 123 as a social activity, 82 – 84 encyclopedic aims, 202 – 203 as mining and rei ning in Pliny the never not reading, 148 Elder, 89 – 90 NH ( Natural History ), 112 – 142 as work in Pliny the Elder, 89 NH , Book 28, 139 – 140 Gellius on reading Gellius, 35 NH , Book 7, 119 – 120 , 123 – 127 , 201 independent, 68 NH , multiple opening points, 23n6 meaning of, 2 NH , Preface, 89 – 91 , 120 – 121 , 127 meaning of, in the late second century CE , 2 NH , 112n1 modern approaches – Johnson, Keulen, table of contents, 54 , 56 Gunderson, 68 – 69 Vita Plinii , anonymous, 120 NA sequentially or out of order, works listed by his nephew, 154 5 1 – 5 2 Pliny the Younger, 15 , 113 , 257 no one way to read, 73 incipit list, possibly original, 52n73 pleasure in, 134 Plutarch, 23 – 32 , 35 – 36 , 92 – 100 , 258 Roman literature and Montaigne, 262 as a modern, 13 – 14 approach to reading, 261 as a Roman, 2 as author of dialogues, 16 silent, 102 – 103 as recent author for Gellius, 257 three dei nitions, 67 , 69 , 70 his name the i rst word in Gellius’ text, recepticius , 160 – 161 13 , 23 , 38 recitatio , 2 , 74 How the Young Man Should Study Poetry , r e l exive and recursive 9 2 – 9 5 , 9 7 – 9 8 in Gellius and Montaigne, 262 Lives , not cited by Gellius, 24 this Index, 277 On Curiosity , 93 – 94 , 98 – 99 rhetores , 226 – 231 On the Right Way of Listening to Lectures , Rome 9 2 – 9 3 , 9 4 – 9 7 as political space, in Plutarch, 26 On the Soul , 24 Rufus, 167 Progress in Virtue , 93 Quaestiones Conviviales , 23 Sabinus, 167 , 193 , 196 , 197 reading as an ethical act, 102 Sallust, 151 , 210 , 223 , 244 polypgramosýne , 24 – 32 , 35 , 243 , 257 Saturnalia, 47 , 50 , 51n71 Polystephanus, 117 Scipio Africanus, 210 Pomponianus, 151 screen essentialism, 189 Pomponius, 165 Scribonius Largus, 53 practice, 130 , 142 , 208 table of contents, 53 , 54 – 55 praeterpropter , 222 – 223 Second Sophistic, so- called, 65 pregnancy, duration of, 191 – 201 Sempronius, 165 private study as public performance, 203 Seneca the Younger, 86 – 87 , 87n62 , 93n84 , 257 , 262 Proïtos, 26 sermo , 251 Psylli, 77 – 78 Servilianus, 40 Publilius Syrus, 253 , 260 – 261 Shakespeare, William, 105 Pythagoras and Pythagoreans, 138 , 171 – 174 , silent reading, 102 – 103 211 , 216 Skeptics and Skepticism, 243 – 244 slaves and slavery, 174 – 175 Quevedo, Francisco de, 104 not of much interest to Gellius, 188 Quintilian, 85 – 88 , 258 slaves as textual media, 188 – 189 approach to reading, 261 snow, melted, not for drinking, 199 quotation social reading, 82 – 84 in composition of NA , 2 1 – 2 2 Social War, 209 Socrates and the Socratic method, 101 , reading 210 – 211 , 216 , 223 – 224 , 228 , 240 – 241 , a multi- stage process in Gellius, 68 244 , 250

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spaces titles, of books, 31 as settings of Gellius’ essays, 42 , 43 tradesmen present while their language is Greek vs Latin, 237n95 discussed, 222 liminal and marginal, 10 , 43 , 75 travel private, 11 useful break from reading (Gellius), 148 , 150 for writing and reading, 2 useful for reading (Pliny the Elder), 148 , 150 public, 11 , 26 , 82 Tubero, 210 public vs private, 128 Stoics and Stoicism, 21n2 , 40 – 41 , 46 , 141 , Valerius Soranus, 53n75 214 , 219 Varro Suetonius, 162n17 as learned author, 114 Sulpicius Apollinaris, 12 , 217 – 219 , 224 – 225 as source and authority, 76 , 133 , 192 – 194 , Sulpicius, Servius, 165 195 – 196 , 198 synkrisis , 9 , 24 on words, 127 – 128 , 219 as writer of dialogues, 211 table of contents, 23 , 258 correspondence as a tool to avoid reading entire work, 54 , 92 with Axius, 253 four Latin examples, 52 – 53 with Cicero, 180 , 210 in Columella, 53 – 54 , 56 on logic, 72 – 73 in Epictetus, 55 – 59 on table- talk, 30 in Gellius, 52 – 53 , 54 – 55 Velázquez, 255 – 256 in Pliny the Elder, 54 , 56 , 92 Vergil, 176 , 223 in Scribonius Largus, 53 , 54 – 55 commentators on, 164 Tables, XII, 8 – 9 , 191 , 232 – 233 , 243 , 258 verism, 3 , 110 , 206 , 208 , 215 , 259 Tacitus, 211n21 , 216 , 257 Verrius Flaccus, 160 – 163 , 170 – 171 , 175 , 188 , 258 as writer of dialogues, 211 Vindex, Caesellius, 131 – 132 , 155 , 161 – 163 , 175 , Taurus, 11 , 23 , 58 , 219 188 , 194 , 196 and Favorinus, their relationships with defects of, 131 – 132 Gellius, 235 – 239 Vita Plinii , anonymous, 120 contrasted with Favorinus, 235 depressed, 30 wonder, 118 , 126 , 135 relationship with Gellius, 38 , 42 – 48 , 50 – 51 , and surprise, 77 63 , 199 , 222 , 248 World Wide Web, 108 – 109 Terentius Scaurus, 132 writing text and paratext, 52 – 53 , 63 – 64 about reading, 106 thesaurus , Pliny’s NH as, 89 , 99 , 153 at night, as symbol of private and intensive Tiro, Tullius, 16 , 20 , 158 , 162 , 174 – 190 , 237 study, 37 accused of lying by Gellius, 185 Wunderkammern , 4 – 5 , 6 as editor, 175 – 179 as exegete, 183 – 187 YouTube, 6 as scholar, 179 – 183 as slave and ex- slave, 188 – 190 Zeno, Stoic philosopher, 41 , 141