Note 243 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Deipn., VIII. 47. Rabelais would seemingly make Aristotle his own Proteus, for Pantagruel (IV. 31) discovers him with his lantern at the bottom of the sea spying about, examining, and writing. This lantern has long been coupled with that of the Sea-urchin, but as a few pages later on we find ourselves in the Pays des Lanternois, it is probably a reference to a philosopher’s lamp, like that of Diogenes.