Book XI, 171

Hermocrates the miser when he was dying wrote himself his own heir in his will, and he lay there reckoning what fee he must pay the doctors if he leaves his bed and how much his illness costs him. But when he found it cost one drachma more if he were saved, “It pays,” he said, “to die,” and stiffened himself out. Thus he lies, having nothing but an obol, and his heirs were glad to seize on his wealth.