This section of the article could have been better argued, because the connection between lychnomancy and Lychnopolis is weak. One example he provides is Apuleius' Metamorphoses, where the landlady, Pamphile, predicts the weather using her lamp, which has little in common with the conversation in Lychnopolis (Sabnis, 235). Sabnis' argument that the conversation between Lucian and his lamp is a form of lychnomancy doesn't seem so plausible when you take into consideration the previous connection she made between lamps and slaves and how much classified knowledge they possess. Sabnis compares Lucian's knowledge of the lamp to lychnomancy because of the breadth of information it possesses, but says that in Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the slave Photis “…knows all [her family's] secrets” (Sabnis, 236). It would seem likely that if a slave could be privy to all of her master's most private information and that the lamps of Lychnopolis were meant to represent slaves, then the conversation between Lucian and his lamp can be explained as a slave recounting his knowledge to his master. . Sabnis also argues that the failure to read what the lamp said to Lucian is an indication that the lamp is guided by its own morals rather than the wishes of its master (Sabnis, 236).