LYCINUS These were obviously other people’s opinions on the schools. You wouldn’t have simply believed the respective adherents when they praised their own schools. HERMOTIMUS Certainly not; these were other people’s opinions. LYCINUS Not their rivals’ opinions, I suppose? HERMOTIMUS No. LYCINUS Laymen’s opinions? HERMOTIMUS Yes. LYCINUS You see how once again you are cheating me and not telling the truth. You think you are talking with some Margites
 A proverbial fool, the hero of a comic epic attributed to Homer. 
 who is ready to believe that Hermotimus, an intelligent man forty years of age, on philosophy and philosophers believed the opinions of laymen and made his choice of the better creed accordingly. I refuse to believe you when you say things like that.