Ἀκαμάτιος

Of Heliopolis,¹ more refined than the other citizens; but so amateurish was his behaviour that, without learning anything either in advance or in retrospect from those who had written on such subjects, he deemed himself worthy to be called a philosopher, and before all he designated himself by this name, and none of the Heliopolitans called him anything other than 'the philosopher'. Let this accordingly be a criticism of man's lack of education; but when we had come to be in Heliopolis, this delusion of the philosophy of Akamatios had virtually gone away. He even wanted to be one of the augurs. This however [is] worth forgiving: that he was able to embrace such things as best he could, especially with regard to private individuals.