A kindly old pedant, Fulcher interlards his history with much discourse on geography, zoology and sacred history.
It is plain that Prodicus was an affected pedant; yet his simple conventional morality found favour, and Plato (Rep. 600 C) couples him with Protagoras in his testimony to the popularity of the sophists and their teaching.
I hate to sound like an old pedant but this is the normal definition of ' unpredictable ' not ' random ' .
It was the history, the realia of the literature, that always interested him; he did not care for Arabic poetry as such, and the then much praised Hariri seemed to him a grammatical pedant.
But his practical father took care that he should grow up a prince, not a pedant.