Claudius Aelianus, A Gossiping Bachelor Writer, Whose 'Variae Historiae' Are Filled With Anecdote

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Claudius Aelianus, a gossiping bachelor writer, whose 'Variae
Historiae' are filled with anecdotes, relates that Socrates in his
wisdom, in order to check some symptoms of a swelled head in
Alcibiades regarding what he boastfully considered his large estates,
brought him to a place where a map of the world was exhibited and
rather witheringly asked him to point out on it where his estates
where situated.
-- A.L. Humphreys, 'Antique Maps and Charts'

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