For he, as a rhetorician, had some rich men for pupils whom
 he was going to make as foolish again as they were when they came to him, (for they could
 acquire nothing from him, except an ignorance of every sort of learning;) but he could not
 infatuate any one to such an extent as to get him to lend him a single farthing. Therefore,
 having left Rome secretly, and cheated numbers of people by trifling loans, he came into Asia;
 and when Hermippus asked him what he had done about the bond given to the Fufii, he said that he
 paid the entire sum to the Fufii. In the mean time, not long afterwards, a freedman comes to
 Hermippus with letters from the Fufii. The money is demanded of Hermippus. Hermippus demands it
 of Heraclides; however, he himself satisfies the claim of the Fufii who are at a distance, and
 discharges the security which he had given. He then prosecutes Heraclides, in spite of all his
 fuming and shuffling, in a formal manner: the cause is tried before judges. Do not fancy, O judges, that the impudence of cheats and repudiators is not one and the same
 in all places. This man did the very same things which debtors here are in the habit of doing.
 He denied that he had ever borrowed any money at all at Rome. He asserted that he had actually
 never heard the name of the Fufii; and he attacked Hermippus himself, a most modest and virtuous
 man, an ancient friend and hereditary connection of my own, the most eminent and accomplished
 man in his city, with every sort of reproach and abuse. But after this voluble gentleman had
 delivered himself in that fashion with a prodigious rapidity of eloquence for some time, all of
 a sudden, when the evidence of the Fufii and the items of their claim were read, though a most
 audacious man, he got alarmed; through a most talkative one, he became dumb. Therefore, the
 judges at the first trial gave a decision against him, in a matter which certainly did not admit
 of much doubt. As he did not comply with their decision, he was given up to Hermippus and put in
 prison by him.