dalise by his words who has offended by his
actions."

_Damis_ to Antony:

"What a just man! eh?"

_Antony_--"Decidedly, I believe he is sincere."

_Apollonius_--"The night of my birth, my mother thought she saw herself
gathering flowers on the border of a lake. A flash of lightning
appeared; and she brought me into the world amid the cries of swans who
were singing in her dream. Up to my fifteenth year, they plunged me
three times a day into the fountain Asbadeus, whose waters render
perjurers dropsical; and they rubbed my body with leaves of cnyza, to
make me chaste. A princess from Palmyra sought me out, one evening, and
offered me treasures, which she knew were hidden in tombs. A priest of
the temple of Diana cut his throat in despair with the sacrificial
knife; and the Governor of Cilicia, after repeated promises, declared
before my family that he would put me to death; but it was he who died
three days after, assassinated by the Romans."

_Damis_, to Antony, striking him on the elbow--"Eh? Just as I told you!
What a man!"

_Apollonius_--"I have for four years in succession observed the complete
silence of the Pythagoreans. The most unforeseen calamity did not draw
one sigh from me; and, at the theatre, when I entered, they turned aside
from me as from a phantom."

_Damis_--"Would you have done that--you?"

_Apollonius_--"The time of my ordeal ended, I undertook to instruct the
priests who had lost the tradition."

_Antony_--"What tradition?"

_Damis_--"Let him continue. Be silent!"

_Apollonius_--"I have conversed with the Samaneans of the Ganges, with
the astrologers of Chaldea, with the magi of Babylon, with the Gaulish
druids, with the priests of the negroes. I have climbed the fourteen
Olympi; I have sounded the Lakes of Sythia; I have measured the vastness
of the desert!"

_Damis_--"All this is undoubtedly true. I was there myself!"

_Apollonius_--"At first, I went as far as the Hyrcanian Sea. I have gone
all round it, and through the country of the Baraomatae, where Bucephalus
is buried. I have gone down to Nineveh. At the gates of the city a man
came up to me."

_Damis_--"I! I! my good Master! I loved you from the very beginning. You
were sweeter than a girl, and more beautiful than a god!"

_Appollonius_, without listening to him--"He wished to accompany me, in
order to act as an interpreter for me."

_Damis_--"But you replied that you understood every language, and that
you divined a