Book IX, 174

The teachers here are those men with whom Sarapis is angry; they start from “pernicious wrath.” Here the nurse brings, perforce, the fee once a month, tying up the wretched pittance in byblus and paper, and puts the contemptible little paper, like a pinch of incense, by the master’s seat, as if by a tomb, She steals some of the small fee and changes the coins, substituting leaden ones, and she receives her commission, If any one agrees to pay a gold coin for a whole year, he changes his teacher in the eleventh month before paying up, and is so ungrateful as to make fun, too, of his former master after robbing him of a whole year’s fee.