While Archimedes was intent on his diagrams, his servants drew him away by violence, and anointed1 him; and after his body was anointed, he traced his figures upon that.
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1 The ancients anointed the body every day. - C.
The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. translator. New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.
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