Plin. May Paul or, what I should rather have said, may Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God, be with me.
Cels. Perhaps Christ is adumbrated in the fable of Minerva and that of the birth from Jupiter’s brain.
Plin. Place the table on the supports in the sleeping-chamber.
Cels. Do you prefer the table to the desk?
Plin. At this time, yes; but place a small desk on the table.
Epict. A self-standing one or a movable one?
Plin. Which you like. But where is the Dydimus of my studies?
Cels. I will summon him thither.