It is true that our Pausanias evidently knew and had travelled in Syria, but this in itself is no reason for supposing that he was the author of a work to which in his extant writings he makes no allusion.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer
For what is not obtained by that? All the other politic expedients, known as conciliation and so on, are mere adjuncts.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta
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