Someone Who Had Begun To Read Geometry With Euclid, When He Had Learned
The First Proposition, Asked Euclid, "But What Shall I Get By Learning
These Things?
Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned
the first proposition, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning
these things?" whereupon Euclid called his slave and said "Give him
three-pence since he must make gain out of what he knows.
-- Johannes Stobaeus (5th C. A.D.)
