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 1      II|     conception which we entertain of men gifted with remarkable powers."
 2      II|           few others of the kind, -- men who were liars and devoid
 3      II|              Philostratus of Athens, men of the highest education,
 4      IV|             might almost say, by all men, subjects and rulers alike,
 5      IV|              evil demons which beset men's bodies and souls, as from
 6      IV|         philosophers, but even among men of integrity and good sense,
 7      VI|              then the mortal race of men, while provided with soul
 8      VI|              associating itself with men, for this is allowed also
 9      VI|             salvation and succour of men here below. Of these messengers
10     VII|              a few other short-lived men, it should surely make its
11     VII|          moral excellence, sowing in men's hearts a spirit truly
12    VIII|           surprised, for I know what men are thinking about, even
13      IX|        anticipated " the thoughts of men even when they are silent."~ ~
14      XI|          what they learn to say from men." What ridiculous nonsense
15     XIV|             who read the thoughts of men, and almost like their god
16      XV|             are to believe him, that men who are comfortably off
17      XV|      temperate and fairest-minded of men, are to be esteemed ill-starred
18      XV|             that is to say, the very men who excel others, if judged
19     XIX|              what opinion we hold of men gifted with such powers
20      XX|           much less at the hearth of men who were equal to gods ?
21     XXI|              And he also asked about men who live underground, and
22     XXI|           pigmies, and shadow-footed men, and he asked if they had
23   XXIII|           and that it was crushed by men, and vomited foam, when
24   XXVII|              consider to be the only men that are really gods and
25    XXIX|              doors open wide to wise men." What can we think of the
26    XXIX| distinguished philosopher of all the men of his age, so much so that
27     XXX|      man-eaters and of shadow-footed men and of a satyr whom Apollonius
28  XXXIII|            knowledge partly for good men, partly for the wise, partly
29   XXXIV|             second : Why was it that men esteemed him to be a god ?
30    XXXV|       superior to the rest of mortal men ; but now after such a display
31  XXXVII|             NEXT this most divine of men composes in the most careful
32 XXXVIII|              in the eyes of sensible men to a charge of being mad.
33 XXXVIII|        wizards; " But I call wizards men of false wisdom, for with
34 XXXVIII|         among divine and philosophic men or among wizards. We have
35 XXXVIII|             wizards and falsely wise men together with what is published
36   XXXIX|            of being downright liars, men devoid of education and
37      XL|         anyone to be a magician, yet men so far had failed to recognise
38      XL|            contrast with these great men; who though, as you admit,
39      XL|              unless he was caught by men of good sense meddling with
40     XLI|             of Babylon, and the wise men of India? For in any case
41    XLII|            arguments, and say : O ye men, mortal and perishable race,
42    XLII|              open in the eyes of all men of sense to this terrible
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