heart, and immediately the love was extinguished."

_Antony_--"What! He drives out demons?"

_Apollonius_--"At Tarentum, they brought to the stake a young girl who
was dead."

_Damis_--"The Master touched her lips; and she arose, calling on her
mother."

_Antony_--"Can it be? He brings the dead back to life?"

_Apollonius_--"I foretold that Vespasian would be Emperor."

_Antony_--"What! He divines the future?"

_Damis_--"There was at Corinth----"

_Apollonius_--"While I was supping with him at the waters of Baia----"

_Antony_--"Excuse me, strangers; it is late!"

_Damis_--"----A young man named Menippus."

_Antony_--"No! no! go away!"

_Apollonius_--"----A dog entered, carrying in its mouth a hand that had
been cut off."

_Damis_--"----One evening, in one of the suburbs, he met a woman."

_Antony_--"You do not hear me. Take yourselves off!"

_Damis_--"----He prowled vacantly around the couches."

_Antony_--"Enough!"

_Apollonius_--"----They wanted to drive him away."

_Damis_--"----Menippus, then, surrendered himself to her; and they
became lovers."

_Apollonius_--"----And, beating the mosaic floor with his tail, he
deposited this hand on the knees of Flavius."

_Damis_--"----But, in the morning, at the school-lectures, Menippus was
pale."

_Antony_, with a bound--"Still at it! Well, let them go on, since there
is not ..."

_Damis_--"The Master said to him: 'O beautiful young man, you are
caressing a serpent; and a serpent is caressing you. For how long are
these nuptials?' Every one of us went to the wedding."

_Antony_--"I am doing wrong, surely, in listening to this!"

_Damis_--"Servants were busily engaged at the vestibule; the doors flew
open; nevertheless, one could hear neither the noise of footsteps, nor
the sound of opening doors. The Master seated himself beside Menippus.
Immediately, the bride was seized with anger against the philosophers.
But the vessels of gold, the cup-bearers, the cooks, the attendants,
disappeared; the roof flew away; the walls fell in; and Apollonius
remained alone, standing with this woman all in tears at his feet. It
was a vampire, who satisfied the handsome young men in order to devour
their flesh--because nothing is better for phantoms of this kind than
the blood of lovers."

_Apollonius_--"If you wish to know the art----"

_Antony_--"I wish to know nothing."

_Apollonius_--"On the evening of our arrival at the gates of Rome----"

_Antony_--"Oh