23. The dexterous management of these sophists, who played
their credulous pupil into each other's hands, is fairly
told by Eunapius [in Maximo, p. 85 seqq., ed. Commel.] with
unsuspecting simplicity. The Abbe de la Bleterie
understands, and neatly describes, the whole comedy. (Vie de
Julian, p. 61-67.)