Epict. You will get cold, for the body is exhausted by studies.
Plin. Then put on a light covering.
Epict. These? And no more?
Plin. No. If I feel cold in bed, then I will ask for more clothes. Take away the curtains, for I prefer a mosquito-net for the keeping off of gnats, a net of fine gauze (conopeum).
Epict. I have noticed but few gnats, though of fleas and lice a pretty fair number.
Adjuncts
Plin. I am surprised that you notice anything particularly, for you sleep and snore so soundly.
Epict. No one sleeps better than he who does not feel how badly he is sleeping.
Plin. None of the insects with which we are troubled in bed in summer disgust me so much as the bugs because of their ghastly odour.