in antiquity, a sort of philosophers, chiefly of the Cynic or Stoic tribe, who having no school or disciples of their own, haunted the tables of great men, and entertained them in their banquets with disquisitions on virtue, vice, and other popular topics. These are sometimes also denominated Circulatori Philosophi. In this sense, the word is derived from the Greek ἀγαθός, virtue, and λόγος, discourse. Some authors choose to derive the word from ἀγαθός, gratus, "agreeable;" and define Aretologi, by persons who strive to divert and entertain their audience with jokes and pleasant tales; which latter seems the more natural explication.