The Isaurian, [who lived] in the time of the emperor Arcadius,[1] whom they called "Harpazakios" ["grabby"] because of his greed. For he was from Armenia, and he was seized by three afflictions at the same time -- just as if by unbreakable, indissoluble Hephaestian chains[2] -- and he remained stuck in them. And these were love-craziness and drunkenness and greed. Thus he practiced what seemed to him virtues to the utmost limit, so that no one by experience would believe that he was not trained to a peak in these three. For[3] he lived with so many female musicians that neither he nor any of his attendants could even count them. And at least the auditors of his military affairs who came to him knew the number of his soldiers; but the multitude of his courtesans escaped even his reckoning by his hands. So just as[4] they say Orontes the Persian said that the smallest of his fingers signifies both "ten thousand" and "one", so they too reckoned the courtesans by singles and ten thousands.