"Musonius," Herodes said, "ordered a thousand sesterces to be given to a beggar of this sort who was pretending to be a philosopher, and when several people told him that the rascal was a bad and vicious fellow, deserving of nothing good, Musonius, they say, answered with a smile, 'Well then he deserves money.'"[1]
1 This incident occurs in a discussion of Herodes Atticus' generous treatment of a sham philosopher who was begging for money.