Lucian of Samosata, Βίων πράσις or Philosophies for Sale, 13, in: Lucian, tr. A. M. Harmon (Loeb Classical Library, 1919), vol. II., p. 475:
BUYER
What, are you laughing at us all, and do you think nothing of our affairs?
DEMOCRITEAN
Even so; for there is nothing serious in them, but everything is a hollow mockery, drift of atoms, infinitude.
BUYER
No indeed, but you yourself are a hollow mockery in very truth and an infinite ass. Oh, what effrontery!
Ἀγοραστής
Πῶς λέγεις; καταγελᾷς ἡμῶν ἁπάντων καὶ παρ᾽ οὐδὲν τίθεσαι τὰ ἡμέτερα πράγματα;
Δημόκριτος
ὧδε ἔχει: σπουδαῖον γὰρ ἐν αὐτέοισιν οὐδέν, κενεὰ δὲ πάντα καὶ ἀτόμων φορὴ καὶ ἀπειρίη.
Ἀγοράστης
οὐ μὲν οὖν, ἀλλὰ σὺ κενὸς ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ἄπειρος.
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