ear-covers

Updated: June 14, 2025

Silence following upon this, What application, said I, shall reason make, or how shall it assist? For I do not think it will apply those ear-covers of Xenocrates, or force us to rise from the table as soon as we hear a harp struck or a pipe blown.

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies