Epicurus used to call this Nausiphanes jelly-fish,Cf. Sext. Emp. i. 3 νῦν πλεύμονα καλῶν τὸν Ναυσιφάνην ὡς ἀναίσθητον; Plato, 21 c ζῆν δὲ οὐκ ἀνθρώπου βίον ἀλλά τινος πλεύμονος; Hesychius, s.v.; whence it appears that obtuseness and insensibility, not weakness or pliability, were the qualities imputed by this term. an illiterate, a fraud, and a trollop; Plato’s school he called the toadies of Dionysius, their master himself the golden Plato,An ironical compliment, probably on Plato’s style: cf. χρυσός τομος. It is not likely that Plato was ever regarded as a Midas or a golden simpleton, for which latter meaning Lucian, i. ἐγὼ ὁ χρυσοῦς, is cited by Bignone. and Aristotle a profligate, who after devouring his patrimony took to soldiering and selling drugs; Protagoras a pack-carrier and the scribe of Democritus and village schoolmaster; Heraclitus a muddlerIn the same ironical sense in which Plato speaks of the Heracliteans who preached flux as τοὺς ῥέοντας ( 181 a), themselves in flux.; Democritus Lerocritus (the nonsense-monger); and Antidorus Sannidorus (fawning gift-bearer); the Cynics foes of Greece; the Dialecticians despoilers; and Pyrrho an ignorant boor.