Observe also the superficiality and manifest falsity of such a statement of Celsus, when he asserts “that he who was partaker of a man’s table would not conspire against him; and if he would not conspire against a man, much less would he plot against a God after banqueting with him.”  For who does not know that many persons, after partaking of the salt on the table,³²⁷⁷

3277 ἁλῶν καὶ τραπέζης.

3278 Archilochus.

“But thou hast broken a mighty oath—that, viz., by the salt of the table.”

And they who are interested in historical learning, and who give themselves wholly to it, to the neglect of other branches of knowledge more necessary for the conduct of life,³²⁷⁹

3279 Guietus would expunge these words as “inept.”

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