Note 125 — AGAINST COLOTES, THE DISCIPLE AND FAVORITE OF EPICURUS.
Reading edition
See Plato, Phaed. p. 69 C, and Stallbaum’s note. Here the proverb occurs,—Ναρθηκοφόροι μὲν πολλοὶ, Βάκχοι δέ τε παῦροι, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the true priests of Bacchus are few. (G.)