We should see clearly that the artificial indoor amusements, such as dancing, card-playing, theater-going, billiard-playing, are especially liable to give rise to that craving for excitement for excitement's sake which perverts recreation from its true function as a Renewer of our powers into a ruinous drain upon them.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
Yet the express references to the statements of Ctesias which Diodorus found in his authority, as well as fragments relating to the subject which have been elsewhere preserved, allow us to fix with tolerable accuracy what belongs to Ctesias in this narrative, and what Clitarchus, the Renewer of his work, whom Diodorus had before him, has added.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
He was apparently the Renewer of the Sabian rites: and we may be assured, that he could not be the person so celebrated by the antients, who was referred to the first ages.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant