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Eusebius Pamphilii of Caesarea Treatise against the life of Apollonius of Tyana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1 XXXIX| throne. However, since I abhor the forced concords of flattery, 2 VII| memory of their constructive ability; and yet that a human character 3 XLI| with any pretentious and abject slave, and Socrates himself, 4 VI| any permanent repose or abode ; nor by any huge leap can 5 XVIII| about his periodical voyages abroad, and about his journey thither 6 X| that the Pythagorean who abstained from animal food and could 7 IV| even to ask about them, is absurd. So we will merely examine 8 XXIX| experience, he wished to gain access to the palace as freely 9 VI| and for the teacher to accommodate himself to the, pupil who 10 I| love of truth " desire accurately to understand my own position. 11 XXVI| have been included by the accuser among the other charges 12 XXIV| twelve cubits in stature, and accusing the Thessalians for not 13 XXI| cubit long, which it is accustomed to shoot out like arrows 14 XXXIX| reference, I admit, to the Acrisii and to the house of Laius, 15 | across 16 XLII| our will and choice and action, and these are naturally 17 IV| highly educated, yet never by actual sifting of the facts, established 18 | actually 19 XLI| is ever in movement, is actuated against its will, and not 20 XXVI| mysteries to a man who was addicted to impure rites. We also 21 XXIV| ought to make use of in addressing heroes." This is how Apollonius 22 V| still freely disposed to adhere to this opinion ; and I 23 XIX| who has been entrusted to administer the supreme courts of justice 24 XV| And in spite of his having admired him for what he was, he 25 II| I NEED not say with what admiring approval he attributes his 26 XXVII| are not only gods, but are adorned with all the gifts of the 27 I| purposes they have, even in advance of any special work that 28 II| to have been, though he advances no proof of this contention. 29 XIII| admit that he saw no moral advantage in them produced by such 30 V| that he was his enemy and adversary; I, however, my friend, 31 XXXIII| But I know most human affairs, seeing that I know everything; 32 XI| sources ; and with a wilful affectation of solemnity he only labels 33 XXXV| in his behalf, lest any affliction should come upon him against 34 VI| ages, in no less a degree affording an example of the divine 35 V| by way of beginning the affray, would without demur abuse 36 XXXIII| philosopher because he is afraid of death. Listen then to 37 XXXV| inserting his leg in them afresh, he comported himself like 38 XXXV| means of certain uncanny agencies, he failed to regard him 39 XLI| being moved by some outside agency, and would be as it were 40 V| me with them, I am quite agreeable. Not so if anyone ventures, 41 XLI| moves itself would, on such ail hypothesis, effect nothing 42 XLI| order to ascertain what aim his work has in view, when 43 XLII| servile, restrained and alien to ourselves; for example, 44 XXXIX| Ephesus he did his best "to alienate his friends from Domitian, 45 VI| of course the latter can alight upon the earth, by depressing 46 XXXI| character, if she was really alive all the time and still bore 47 VI| they guard and observe the all-wise will of a Providence which 48 XI| legend was false, and the allegation in the book that he was 49 XXXIV| chain. Then having thus alleviated his follower's grief, he 50 XXVII| hero held himself carefully aloof from such their contrivances, 51 | always 52 XXX| learn that it was that of Amasis, a former king of Egypt, 53 XVIII| with Apollonius with an amber-like drug, took a bath, and then 54 II| But in the time of our own ancestors, during the reign of Nero, 55 XII| that Apollonius was of an ancient family and lineally descended 56 XVIII| that the " Brahmans, after anointing themselves together with 57 XXVII| certain incantations or anointings. But Apollonius himself 58 IX| who by his divine power anticipated " the thoughts of men even 59 XXV| characterise one who drove away Antisthenes, a poor youth so serious 60 XXII| Brahmans, and as if he was anxious to acquit Apollonius of 61 XXIII| criticism of it. For if anybody feels the shadow of doubt 62 XVII| with pepper trees, and the apes cultivated the same; and 63 XXXIII| words in which our author apologises for him : " This was the 64 XXVII| and that deserve this ... appellation? " And there are other passages 65 VI| must one meddle with what appertains to demons.~ ~ 66 XXVIII| boastfulness, so nearly does it approach downright madness, for one 67 II| not say with what admiring approval he attributes his thaumaturgic 68 XXIX| yourself: for unless you approve of flatterers, you will 69 XXIX| to him those whom he most approved of among philosophers as 70 XXXIV| certain field and cut up the Arcadian boy ? To meet these then 71 XVIII| their staves, and the earth arched itself up and elevated them 72 XI| philosophy of Pythagoras, and Archytas too, and Philolaus the one 73 XXIII| And yet one might fairly argue that if he had been of a 74 II| after passing heedlessly by Aristeas of Proconnesus and Pythagoras 75 XVII| of fire, from which there arose a lead-coloured flame ; 76 | around 77 XXXVII| and on that assumption he arranges his apology along extremely 78 XXII| with them, we learn that he arrived with his companions at the 79 XXXVIII| among many examples of the arrogance with which he addressed 80 XXI| accustomed to shoot out like arrows at those who hunt it. Such 81 VI| nature than creations of artists made of lifeless matter. 82 XLI| education in the circle of arts, or in your wise self-discipline 83 XLI| with destiny, in order to ascertain what aim his work has in 84 XXXIX| discreet of his own companions aside and say to them : ' I have 85 V| gone, and we shall have an ass instead concealed in a lion' 86 XV| whether this field ought to be assigned to the seller or buyer of 87 XV| awards it to the purchaser, assigning his reason in these words: " 88 XLI| as it were driven on to associate with the sages of India ; 89 XXXIX| meanness ; unless indeed you assume that the authors who have 90 XXVI| second disguises itself by assuming the form of a woman : and 91 XXXIX| that his own fortune was assured, so long as you did not 92 VIII| derived this particular ; for assuredly he does not attribute this 93 XXXV| as he says, Damis was not astounded at these things, nor filled 94 XXXIX| the house of Laius, and to Astyages, the Mede, and to many other 95 XXIX| censoriousness, when he attacks him for his monstrous conduct; 96 XXVI| the girl unnoticed by her attendants. For he says that according 97 XVI| highly educated man, but most attentive to the truth.~ ~ 98 XXIV| from the Indians nor felt attracted by their wisdom.~ ~ 99 II| what admiring approval he attributes his thaumaturgic feats not 100 XXXIX| directing the attention of his audience to a brazen statue of Domitian 101 XLII| intelligence, gaze upon the august countenance of truth. It 102 XII| cannot anyhow claim the authority of Damis for these particulars, 103 XXIII| defence he addressed to the autocrat Domitian, as follows : " 104 XXVII| their dumb waiters and other automata which I described as entering 105 XXIV| his questions, in order to avert the suspicion of his having 106 XXIII| nothing less than that of his averting the plague. Although the 107 XLI| archer or a carpenter, cannot avoid being so, surely also if 108 XL| to heaven. This is why he avows, no less in the exordium 109 XV| is asked his opinion, and awards it to the purchaser, assigning 110 XXXV| believe that our author is aware of this, and endeavours 111 XI| converse with Vardan the Babylonian king, it is related that 112 XXIX| palmary example of slander and back-biting and use it against Apollonius. 113 VII| of old raised up earnest bands of disciples, who continued 114 XXIX| wealth, and already at the banks he discusses prices as a 115 XVIII| cup-bearers to serve in the banquet, four in number and made 116 XXVII| encounter, or by means of barbaric sacrifices, or by means 117 XV| of philosophy, even of a bare living and of the necessities 118 XLII| and necessity. And let him bare-headed enumerate the consequences 119 XVII| they take to working like base mechanics at forge and steel, 120 XVI| accurate judgment, well based on an understanding of the 121 XVIII| amber-like drug, took a bath, and then standing round 122 XXXIV| misfortunes which he imagined had befallen his teacher; whereupon Apollonius 123 | beforehand 124 XXVI| about a lewd fellow who went begging about Rome, rehearsing the 125 | begin 126 VI| universe in respect of its beginnings and of its continuance and 127 XXIII| other teachers, to have begun his career of wonder-working; 128 XXVII| when among the Indians he beheld their tripods, and their 129 XXXIV| and last of all: In whose behoof had he gone to a certain 130 II| mysterious wisdom ; and he believes they were truly what he 131 XIX| frivolity ; and after himself believing such things when he finds 132 XI| he was the slave of his belly and his desires and modelled 133 XXXIX| to another which already belongs to some one, then, even 134 XV| esteemed thrice happy and beloved of the gods, even though 135 | below 136 XVIII| earth too strewed grass beneath them of her own accord and 137 VI| prevent a divine nature, being beneficent and inclined to save and 138 VI| his bestowal of which will benefit our nature, he will, they 139 XL| thev nourished, and also bequeathed to posterity in their philosophy 140 VI| and of gifts of grace his bestowal of which will benefit our 141 XVII| suppose they could not help bestowing upon the teacher of so divine 142 XXXIX| yourselves, so you must betake yourself to Rome to such 143 XX| save the mark, nay, surely betraying an equally scant respect 144 XXII| cups in a circle, fully betrays and exposes the mythical 145 XII| as long as they are not bewilderingly wonderful and full of nonsense. 146 | beyond 147 VI| wingless body emulate the bird, nor being a man must one 148 XXX| hear about a youth who was bitten by a mad dog. He is rescued 149 XLI| nor on the other hand be blameworthy, because it was filled with 150 XXIX| convicted of praising and blaming the same person. Was it 151 XXXI| quitting the Islands of the Blest and the places of repose, 152 XXXIX| in my mind, when you were blockaded by Vitellius, and the temple 153 XXIV| souls of the dead with the blood of lambs, I managed to converse 154 XXVIII| pilot of a ship in Egypt to boast of being himself a god already 155 I| Celsus wrote and -- even more boastfully than the " Lover of Truth," -- 156 XXVIII| loathe this utterance for its boastfulness, so nearly does it approach 157 XLII| ourselves; for example, our bodily processes and external objects 158 XXXV| Emperor, I mean of course the bodyguard that stood round him. Now 159 XXXVIII| indulge in such high-faluting bombast without exposing himself 160 VIII| And at the end of the bookl we learn that his grave 161 XIV| Indians, and a barbarian to boot, gets rid of the interpreter, 162 VIII| in a word, that he was born superior to mankind in general, 163 VI| being able to appreciate his bounty, bestow plenteously an illumination 164 XX| by stooping down over the bowl, which, as our author is 165 XXXIV| and cut up the Arcadian boy ? To meet these then he 166 II| of Tyana, who from mere boyhood when he became the priest 167 XXXVIII| made him." Heavens, what braggadocio! No ordinary person anyhow, 168 XXXIX| themselves, of being vapouring braggarts and nothing else, convicted 169 XXII| performances on the part of the Brahman, -- how for example he recalled 170 XXXIX| attention of his audience to a brazen statue of Domitian which 171 XXXIX| fail to win, even though he break his leg; and the man to 172 VI| other hand the creature bred on dry land will not plunge 173 VI| the world of mankind more brightly than the sun, and will leave 174 XX| a fellow and so great a buffoon was allowed to get drunk 175 VII| works of carpenters and builders should last on ever so long 176 XL| heard to issue from the building, and the words of their 177 XXIV| whether Achilles had been buried, and of whether the Muses 178 XXXIX| the temple of Jupiter was burnt on the brow of the hill, 179 XXXIX| a most important secret business to entrust to yourselves, 180 XXIX| if there is anything to buy or sell. And he clings like 181 XV| assigned to the seller or buyer of the place. Our supreme 182 V| sophist in the truest sense, cadging for alms among the cities, 183 XII| regard as reprehensible and calculated to fasten a suspicion not 184 XXX| with his companions, on camel-back to see those whom he the 185 XII| set a very high value upon candour and love of truth. Nevertheless 186 XL| former occasion when he is canvassing the manner in which he died, 187 XXXIX| we judge him other than capable of all villainy and meanness ; 188 IV| more divine nor in what capacity one worked more wondrous 189 VII| absurdity that the works of carpenters and builders should last 190 XXII| we hear that each of them carried a staff and a ring which 191 VI| as truly divine, and as carrying in his soul the image of 192 XXXIII| HERE then we find him categorically accused of being a wizard. 193 XLI| wisdom was due to these causes, then it was destiny that 194 XIX| how much better and more cautiously we accept such things, and 195 XL| mind to descend into the cave of Trophonius in Lebadea; 196 XLII| these doctrines, let him cease to call anyone wise or foolish, 197 XL| across any sepulchre or "cenotaph of his hero, although he 198 XXIX| us to accuse his rival of censoriousness, when he attacks him for 199 XX| them the peers of gods and chaff them about their dignity ? 200 XXXIV| without effort from the chain. Then having thus alleviated 201 XLII| yet , in addition to these champions the cause of Destiny and 202 XXIII| circumambient air being changed into a morbid condition 203 VIII| the story of Homer ever changes his form. But she, in no 204 XXV| humour. For how else can we characterise one who drove away Antisthenes, 205 XXXVIII| else are all these things characteristic, except of people who can 206 XXIX| him of being the worst of characters. How then is it that he 207 XLII| virtuous or vicious, or charlatan ; let him deny that anyone 208 XXXIX| devoid of education and charlatans.~ ~ 209 IV| established a school of sober and chaste living which has survived 210 XXXIX| to have slain their own children and others their descendants, 211 XVIII| standing round as if in chorus, struck the earth with their 212 XVIII| their part and whenever they chose. And the miracle-monger 213 V| or any other compiler or chronicler, to overleap the bounds 214 IX| the school of Plato and of Chrysippus and members of the Peripatetic 215 II| became the priest in Aegae of Cilicia of Asclepius, the lover 216 III| accounts that he found in circulation, using both the book of 217 XXIII| vitiation of the atmosphere, the circumambient air being changed into a 218 VI| nature which prescribe and circumscribe the existence of the universe 219 VI| with soul and body, is yet circumscribed by divine bounds. Consequently 220 XL| expresses his surprise at the circumstance, remarking withal, that " 221 V| cadging for alms among the cities, and a wizard, if there 222 VII| yet that a human character claimed to be divine should, after 223 XVI| levity of character, while claiming for himself and for those 224 XLI| those who accused him and clamoured for his death. Diogenes, 225 XXXII| at all, are so far from classing him among divine and extraordinary 226 XLI| Nay you ought to make a clean sweep of all the other gods, 227 VI| favoured by fortune, having cleansed his understanding and dissipated 228 XLII| even if they succeed in clearing him from the filth thrown 229 XXVII| that their marvels were cleverly contrived indeed, but that 230 XXIX| anything to buy or sell. And he clings like a limpet to the doors 231 XXXVII| defence of himself by the clock, only the tyrant confined 232 XL| the temple, the gates were closed and a strange hymn of maidens 233 XLI| raised to life, the thread of Clotho had reached its limit, and 234 IX| education, while. Apollonius clung to his teacher." We further 235 XXXI| performed by Apollonius with the co-operation of a demon. For his presentiment 236 XVIII| hot water and the other cold. And the cup-bearers of 237 XLII| control is everything which comes into being in accordance 238 XV| believe him, that men who are comfortably off and richer than their 239 XII| and so far we must needs commend the youthful Apollonius 240 XXIV| the wrongs which they had committed against him, and bidding 241 XI| Arabians this teacher also who communicated to him a knowledge of the 242 XLI| even without your holding communications with them, the decrees of 243 XXII| being smuggled into their community ; but perhaps he means that 244 XVIII| and he goes so far as to compare these to the tripods in 245 IV| good sense, much less to be compared with our Saviour Christ, 246 XL| to be puzzled, when one compares what one reads at the beginning 247 III| of other authors ; so he compiled the most complete history 248 III| so he compiled the most complete history of any of this person' 249 XLI| way we shall finally and completely refute the tenets professed 250 XII| and highly-coloured out of compliment to a good man ; for I could 251 XXXV| his leg in them afresh, he comported himself like any other prisoner." 252 XXXVII| this most divine of men composes in the most careful of manners 253 XXXVII| unaware that after all his composition would prove a mere waste 254 I| in question, who in his comprehensive survey of all that anyone 255 XXII| who thought it his duty to conceal from his only companion 256 V| shall have an ass instead concealed in a lion's skin; and we 257 XXXIX| former occasion, without concealing anything; read how when 258 XXXIII| disguises Damis, for the latter conceals the fact of his being a 259 II| matters, and explain the conception which we entertain of men 260 XXIX| your door, and are much concerned for your welfare. Summon 261 XXXVIII| holds the following language concerning magicians and wizards; " 262 XV| than the seller." We must conclude then, if we are to believe 263 XLI| what reason is there for concluding that the nature, which is 264 XXXIX| since I abhor the forced concords of flattery, for it seems 265 IV| accuracy in detail of the condemnation which the " Lover of Truth," 266 XXII| his book, as if by way of condemning the wizardry of the Brahmans, 267 XIX| at the same time that he condemns us for our excessive credulity 268 VI| to quit his heights and condescend to the lowly, yet the converse 269 XXIX| attacks him for his monstrous conduct; and to suppose that the 270 XXIX| them also therefore to your conference, for they are both of them 271 XII| of Proteus, or to ask for confirmation of it, nor to demand proof 272 XLII| lawful for truth to be in conflict and contradiction with herself; 273 XLII| Destiny and Fate, so upholding conflicting and opposed opinions, let 274 X| Assyria, he immediately conjectured from what he saw the length 275 XXV| unsullied. In any case the demon conjured up on this occasion is represented 276 XVII| even if they do not like conjurers make their handiwork to 277 XLI| me, raise a few points in connexion with the Fates and with 278 XXIX| sovereign so warmly, that in consequence of his recommendation the 279 XLII| bare-headed enumerate the consequences of these doctrines, let 280 VI| circumscribed by divine bounds. Consequently he can never traverse the 281 XVIII| the air itself for some considerable length of time. And he relates 282 XXVII| and that I am right in considering them wise and blessed, it 283 XXXV| Apollonius, with perfect consistency, argued as follows : " If 284 XV| talking Greek, as Philostratus consistently, it would seem, with himself, 285 VII| monument to the memory of their constructive ability; and yet that a 286 XIII| tried to hinder him from consuming the flesh of living animals, 287 III| his own soil, he came into contact with of him ; and he wrote 288 XXXVIII| vainly composed, for it contains among many examples of the 289 VI| eternal divinity for the contemplation of future ages, in no less 290 XXXII| This being so, let us be content with the remarks we have 291 II| advances no proof of this contention. Listen then to his very 292 XXV| although the latter were continually sacrificing and pouring 293 VI| its beginnings and of its continuance and of its end, being limits 294 VII| bands of disciples, who continued their tradition of moral 295 XXIV| the Thessalians for not continuing according to custom to offer 296 XXIX| suppose that the latter contracted his evil reputation because 297 XLII| truth to be in conflict and contradiction with herself; nor that of 298 XXXI| all, due to some uncanny contrivance of a demon that was his 299 XXVII| carefully aloof from such their contrivances, on the ground that they 300 VI| thing. It follows that the controller of this universe, being 301 V| V~ ~ANOTHER controversionalist, by way of beginning the 302 XLII| anyone is so foolhardy as to controvert the fact of our responsibility, 303 XX| his history from him and conversed in turn with him, Iarchas 304 XI| from this man, his gift of conversing with the gods. But let us 305 XIII| one whom he was trying to convert to his philosophy, that 306 IV| nor on the fact that he converted to his own scheme of divine 307 XXIII| which the story is told will convince him that fraud and make-believe 308 XXXVIII| own accord, and waiters of copper serve at table, and jars 309 XXXIX| after thyself, he shall corne to life again.' " The man 310 XII| a lover who designed to corrupt his youth, and also, as 311 XXIII| nothing in the world but a corruption and vitiation of the atmosphere, 312 XXIX| philosophers as advisers and counsellors of his policy, Apollonius 313 XXXIX| he perished with all his counsels, while you are now in possession 314 XLII| intelligence, gaze upon the august countenance of truth. It is not lawful 315 XLI| drove you also on to these courses. Yet you cannot say that 316 XXXIII| he says that it was not cowardice that led him to make the 317 XLI| temperate, nor the worst of cowards from the greatest of heroes ; 318 VII| on ever so long after the craftsmen are dead, and raise as it 319 XXV| having been freed from the crass matter of the body, must 320 XVII| wonderful water, and hard by a crater of fire, from which there 321 VI| and inspired nature than creations of artists made of lifeless 322 XL| of Athene, and others in Crete ; and after shedding so 323 XXXIV| inopportuneness, as it seems to me, cried out in the court exactly 324 XXIII| render needless any further criticism of it. For if anybody feels 325 XXV| were already beginning to crow." I cannot but think that 326 XXII| things so praiseworthy ? To crown all, on his return after 327 XXV| Why, too, did the mere cry of the cocks drive away 328 XXI| projects hairs like thorns a cubit long, which it is accustomed 329 XVII| pepper trees, and the apes cultivated the same; and then there 330 XLI| glory they acquired by their culture and virtue was their own ? 331 XLII| after drinking the unmixed cup of ignorance ? Be done with 332 XXII| their own accord and of cupbearers of bronze passing round 333 XII| abstinence well suited to cure his disease, and in that 334 XXV| that there was no devilish curiosity here at work, why he would 335 XXXIV| being so acquitted he, wiih curious inopportuneness, as it seems 336 XII| HAVE no wish to enquire curiously about the ghost of Proteus, 337 XXIV| continuing according to custom to offer him the due funeral 338 XXXIX| flatter the tyrant, and cynically pretends that none of this 339 XXII| of the charge of having dabbled therein, he adds the following 340 XXVI| Empusa and Lamia. As for the damsel whom he is said subsequently 341 VIII| accompanied by hymns and dances. Naturally if he was so 342 XXIII| was the first to scent the danger."~ ~And then he relates 343 XXXIX| with them by letter was dangerous to them, he would take now 344 XLI| destiny ? Nay, why did you dare to transcend destiny, and 345 VII| upon mankind, finish in darkness its shortlived career, instead 346 VII| divinity enduring to this day. For surely it is an absurdity 347 XXV| not able to do all this by daytime, instead of doing it in 348 I| I~ ~So then, my dear friend, you find worthy 349 XXV| his statue had fallen into decay.~ ~ 350 XI| inasmuch as the latter deceased some thousand years before 351 XLI| with its own choice and ' decision ; for otherwise it would 352 XVII| of black bronze and was decorated with golden images, such 353 XL| found superstitious devices dedicated in the name of this man ; 354 XXXIV| be easy for his hero to defend himself from, and he admits 355 VI| future ages, in no less a degree affording an example of 356 XLII| other philosopher has been deified, he will at the best, though 357 XLII| limits of truth and tries to deify him as no other philosopher 358 XXXVII| oration which he meant to deliver in defence of himself by 359 XVIII| letter short, namely of a delta ; and he began at once in 360 IV| them to be mere foolish and deluded mortals.~ ~ 361 XXXI| been shown to have been a delusion and nothing more. Moreover, 362 XII| confirmation of it, nor to demand proof of his ridiculous 363 XXXIII| being a wizard. Next we find Demetrius the philosopher trying to 364 XL| Empedocles and Pythagoras and Democritus had consorted with the same 365 XLI| argument it sets itself to demolish our responsibility, and 366 XLI| for they have all been demonstrated to be playthings of destiny 367 IV| no doubt obtain a clear demonstration of the solidity and, as 368 V| the affray, would without demur abuse and malign the man 369 XLII| or charlatan ; let him deny that anyone is divine in 370 XXXV| shown to Damis and to his departure from the law-courts, I will 371 IV| Christ, so far as we can depend on the work of a writer 372 XLI| and if responsibility depends on personal choice, and 373 VI| alight upon the earth, by depressing and lowering their faculty 374 XXV| he, " he is too much of a descendant of Priam, and the praise 375 XXXIX| children and others their descendants, yet were deprived by them 376 XII| ancient family and lineally descended from the first settlers, 377 XXVII| are really gods and that deserve this ... appellation? " 378 XII| with insults a lover who designed to corrupt his youth, and 379 XXVI| that at Athens, when he desired to be initiated in the Eleusinian 380 XI| slave of his belly and his desires and modelled his life on 381 VI| streams from him, and will despatch the most intimate of his 382 IX| Epicurus, because he did not despise even them, though he grasped 383 XXXIX| the man who is fated to be despot after thyself, he shall 384 XLII| which are both lifeless and destitute of reason, and in their 385 XXIII| disease, but by utterly destroying it." Who, I would ask, after 386 IV| himself, of the accuracy in detail of the condemnation which 387 XIII| way advanced their moral development, though in his own case 388 XXXIII| but he did it because the device recommended itself as suggested 389 XL| have found superstitious devices dedicated in the name of 390 XXXII| the same time we need not devote too much attention and study 391 XLI| force of destiny, that he devoted himself to gain, as you 392 X| to sacrifice to the gods, devoured the heart and liver of dragons, 393 XL| the proviso : " If he did die." But in a later passage 394 XLI| the wisest man will not differ from the most imprudent, 395 I| forestalled any solution of your difficulties which I could offer. To 396 X| of understanding without difficulty swans and other birds when 397 XXIV| and says : " For without digging any trench like Odysseus, 398 XLI| encourage your companions to be diligent at their prayers ? And what 399 IX| Peripatetic set. That he also diligently listened to the doctrines 400 XXIII| summoned its fellows to their dinner. Next he has a presentiment 401 XVII| of Apollo Pythius, and of Dionysus of the Lake and of certain 402 XLII| it executes its rounds in direct accordance with nature, 403 XXXIX| of the Fates." And how "directing the attention of his audience 404 XXIV| Nereids had bestowed their dirges upon him. And accordingly 405 V| the mask of Pythagorean discipline to disguise what he really 406 XXII| my good fellow, did he disclaim any wish of the kind ? Is 407 XXII| inventions, it is clear that his disclaimer was not due to their being 408 XL| their ideas with his own discourses, without ever being held 409 XXXIX| now another of the most discreet of his own companions aside 410 XXIX| already at the banks he discusses prices as a merchant might 411 XXII| he praise things which he disdained to imitate ? If he praised 412 XLII| thrown by others, nay in disentangling him from the pinchbeck properties 413 XXIV| reached Troy. Surely it was disgraceful in the extreme that one 414 V| Pythagorean discipline to disguise what he really was. For 415 XXII| who was lame he healed his dislocated hip, how he vouchsafed to 416 VI| will of a Providence which dispenses and disposes all things. 417 IX| he advanced in youth he displayed a knowledge of letters and 418 VII| shortlived career, instead of displaying for ever its power and excellence. 419 IV| world ; nor that even now he displays the virtue of his godlike 420 XI| had such resources at his disposal ? As for his teacher of 421 VI| Providence which dispenses and disposes all things. Now no one can 422 XXV| a malignant and envious disposition, both rancorous and mean 423 VI| cleansed his understanding and dissipated the mist of mortality, may 424 XXXIII| the philosopher trying to dissuade him from going on to Rome, 425 XXX| He is rescued from his distress by Apollonius, who forthwith 426 XXXI| resuscitation of the girl must be divested of any miraculous character, 427 XXII| he praised them, as being divinely operated, why did he not 428 XXXVII| utterly at fault this entirely divinest of beings was about the 429 IV| by him, while the divine doctrine which he firmly laid down 430 XXIX| you and they are at your door, and are much concerned 431 XXIX| more regularly than any doorkeeper would do ; indeed he is 432 XXIX| he is often caught by the doorkeepers, just as greedy dogs might 433 XXVI| Anyhow he hesitates and doubts, whether after all a spark 434 XXXIV| that Damis was extremely downcast at the misfortunes which 435 XLI| false sophists, if they are dragged down by the Fates, as you 436 XXXIX| the following : " And in drawing my examples from royalty, 437 I| marvels, this author has drawn between the man of Tyana 438 XXXIX| in the interest of truth draws a picture of a man who was 439 XLII| perishable race, whither are you drifting, after drinking the unmixed 440 XXV| the mere cry of the cocks drive away the soul of the hero ? 441 XXVI| Apollonius, as they say, drives out one demon with the help 442 XXXVI| the news, that he suddenly drops out of his gift of foreknowledge, 443 XII| to a man afflicted with dropsy a regime of abstinence well 444 XVIII| Apollonius with an amber-like drug, took a bath, and then standing 445 XX| to insult philosophy with drunken jests, and that he got so 446 XXXIX| sobriety after, your fit of drunkenness, read out loud and in a 447 XXXV| accuse his pupil of being a dull-witted man, because, after being 448 XLII| responsibility, let him be duly exposed; and let him openly 449 | during 450 XXII| rocks and the sand and the dust which the rivers bring down 451 XXII| and who thought it his duty to conceal from his only 452 XXI| they were indeed people dwelling underground, but spent their 453 VI| desire to soar about with the eagles ; and in turn, although 454 XLI| nothing remarkable about your earliest birth, or your upbringing, 455 VII| the sages of old raised up earnest bands of disciples, who 456 XXIV| matters, and enquires most earnestly whether Polyxena had been 457 X| expresses his admiration at the ease with which Apollonius understood 458 XLI| you to wander about the eastern and western oceans, and 459 XIII| him and his companions to eat the flesh, for as far as 460 X| understand the dumb animals by eating, so they say, some of them 461 VI| then, as lord of the entire economy and of gifts of grace his 462 XLII| whatever is whirled round in an eddy of necessity by the spindles 463 VI| this entire mechanism and edifice of the whole universe is 464 XLI| on such ail hypothesis, effect nothing of its own initiative 465 XXXIII| which are full of vulgar effrontery and fulsome praise of himself. 466 XXIX| house ; only supporting this Egyptian out of other people's money, 467 XXVII| to a philosophy so highly elaborated, to a philosophy which, 468 XVIII| earth arched itself up and elevated them some two cubits into 469 XXX| of one of these sages an elm-tree, we are told, spoke to Apollonius 470 XXXVIII| For when oak trees and elms talk in articulate and feminine 471 XXXV| such when he ran off and eluded the court and retinue of 472 I| admiration the parallel which, embellished with many marvels, this 473 VI| plunge into the waters, and embrace there any permanent repose 474 XIV| was among the Indians, he employed an interpreter, and through 475 VI| nor with its wingless body emulate the bird, nor being a man 476 XXVII| textually. " That then he was enabled to make such forecasts by 477 XXXII| its very incongruities, so enabling us to detect its mythical 478 XXVII| tormenting the ghosts whom they encounter, or by means of barbaric 479 XL| believe is that his hero never encountered death at all, for on a former 480 XLI| on the cloak of religion encourage your companions to be diligent 481 XXXIX| friends from Domitian, and encouraged them to espouse the cause 482 XXV| youth so serious that he was endeavouring to become a follower of 483 XXXV| author is aware of this, and endeavours to gloze over the fact, 484 | ending 485 VII| nature, take care lest by endowing him with gifts which transcend 486 XLI| as they must, that his endowment with wisdom was due to these 487 VII| wrought by his divinity enduring to this day. For surely 488 XXXV| display of thaumaturgic energy as the above, he is still 489 | enough 490 XII| XII~ ~I HAVE no wish to enquire curiously about the ghost 491 XXIV| about these matters, and enquires most earnestly whether Polyxena 492 XXXI| through ignorance to make enquiries, as he would not have needed 493 XIX| true and reliable after due enquiry, at the same time that he 494 XLI| principle do you solemnly enroll yourself a disciple of the 495 XXVII| these Indians gods, and enrolling himself as their disciple, 496 XXII| figures which I have said entered of their own accord, he 497 XXXVII| how utterly at fault this entirely divinest of beings was about 498 XXXIX| important secret business to entrust to yourselves, so you must 499 XIX| Hierocles, who has been entrusted to administer the supreme 500 XLII| And let him bare-headed enumerate the consequences of these 501 II| begins at the beginning and enumerates the" wonders worked by Apollonius, 502 XXV| represented as of a malignant and envious disposition, both rancorous 503 VII| then, this being so, do you envisage for us Apollonius, my good 504 XXXIV| predict the plague to the Ephesians? and last of all: In whose 505 XI| in no way better than the Epicureans by Philostratus himself, 506 XXIII| Apollonius mentioned this episode also in the defence he addressed 507 XXXVIII| and from the particular episodes set forth therein, whether 508 XVIII| before he set eyes on the epistle, that it was one letter 509 XX| the hearth of men who were equal to gods ? But what possesses 510 XXIII| one fresh from Arabia and equipped with the science of augury 511 XXXIX| so long as you did not escape him, although you were at 512 XXVI| itself, it could not have escaped the notice first of the 513 XXXIX| and encouraged them to espouse the cause of the safety 514 XXVIII| with great gravity of long essays upon the different modes 515 VI| leave the effects of his eternal divinity for the contemplation 516 IX| father took him to Tarsus, to Euthydemus of Phoenicia, who was a 517 XI| Epicurus. And this man was Euxenus of Heraclea in Pontus. But 518 XVI| Philostratus to our own divine evangelists, on the ground that he was 519 XXIV| his prescience of future events, was still ignorant of whether 520 | every 521 XXXIV| wear a different robe from everybody else ? and the second : 522 | everyone 523 XII| do I ask him to produce evidence of his fairy-tale about 524 XXXIV| cried out in the court exactly as follows : " Accord me 525 XII| details may be somewhat exaggerated and highly-coloured out 526 IV| of whom almost without exaggeration it can be said that they 527 II| In their anxiety to exalt Jesus, they run up and down 528 VI| folly ; nor by spiritual exaltation can he in his thinking attain 529 I| is there subjected to an examination in an exhaustive manner 530 IV| when we have thoroughly examined these facts, we shall no 531 XV| to say, the very men who excel others, if judged by the 532 XXV| libations to him ? The only exception is that he ordered Apollonius 533 XIX| that he condemns us for our excessive credulity and frivolity ; 534 XX| them. Surely it may well excite our wonder that so insolent 535 XXII| the man who was careful to exclude Damis from the philosophical 536 XLII| universe and governs it executes its rounds in direct accordance 537 XXIII| composed of noxious and evil exhalations, as medical theory teaches 538 XXVI| at the time, and a vapour exhaled from the face of the girl." 539 I| to an examination in an exhaustive manner and on the scale 540 XXXVIII| except of people who can exhibit "the unreal as real and 541 XXXV| pretends that this miracle was exhibited without sacrifice or any 542 XV| were astonished at some exhibition of the miraculous and were 543 XXVII| passage as the above clearly exhibits in the light of wizards 544 XXI| said that they never had existed at all.~ ~ 545 XL| he avows, no less in the exordium of his book than throughout 546 XVII| such as we might of course expect philosophers to fabricate 547 XV| was, he could never have expected him to talk Greek. In the 548 XXX| which the Lover of Truth expects us to believe. Then he has 549 XXXIII| itself as suggested by the expedience of the moment."~ ~ 550 XXVI| The first of the demons is expelled from an incorrigible youth, 551 XII| prepared to offer the most expensive sacrifices, for he represents 552 XXXV| he now for the first time experienced these feelings, because 553 XXI| course of which Iarchas explained that his own soul had once 554 XXIII| Apology to Domitian the explanation of this presentiment. For 555 XXIII| the phantom plague can be exploded ; for the story tells us 556 XXI| performed this and that exploit; while Apollonius told them 557 XXI| accomplished all sorts of exploits which he enumerated to them. 558 XXII| circle, fully betrays and exposes the mythical character of 559 XXXVIII| high-faluting bombast without exposing himself in the eyes of sensible 560 XI| admit that there were other expounders of the system from whom 561 IV| his godlike might in the expulsion, by the mere invocation 562 XXX| for the sage's humanity extended to dogs.~ ~ 563 VI| lifeless matter. To this extent then human nature can participate 564 XLII| our bodily processes and external objects which are both lifeless 565 XXIV| it was disgraceful in the extreme that one who was the companion 566 XXXIX| even though he lose his eyesight." And then by way of flattering 567 XVII| course expect philosophers to fabricate when they take to working 568 IV| to call our reckless and facile credulity, for we are accounted 569 XV| how you came to have such facility in the Greek tongue? And 570 VI| depressing and lowering their faculty of flight, and by relaxing 571 XXXIX| Olympic games, will never fail to win, even though he break 572 XV| of the most temperate and fairest-minded of men, are to be esteemed 573 XXIII| miracles. And yet one might fairly argue that if he had been 574 XII| produce evidence of his fairy-tale about the thunderbolt ; 575 I| refer those who in good faith and with genuine "love of 576 VII| you convict yourself of fallacy and miscalculation.~ ~ 577 XXV| together with his statue had fallen into decay.~ ~ 578 VI| the unattainable, without falling back into the disease of 579 XXIV| importance. Thereupon he falls to wondering if there had 580 XLI| the author and prove their falsity. If then, according to the 581 XVI| the stories told of the far-famed Brahmans. For here we shall 582 XXIX| he never yet bestowed a farthing on a philosopher, but he 583 XXXIX| shouldst slay the man who is fated to be despot after thyself, 584 VI| these messengers anyone so favoured by fortune, having cleansed 585 VI| and no good being can ever feel any jealousy of any thing. 586 XXXV| first time experienced these feelings, because he felt that his 587 XXIII| criticism of it. For if anybody feels the shadow of doubt about 588 VI| along the ground with the feet given him for the purpose, 589 XX| example of drinking to his fellow-banqueters by stooping down over the 590 IX| further learn that " he had as fellow-students members of the school of 591 XI| of his teachers is a pure fiction. On the other hand if the 592 VIII| child, there appeared the figure of a demon of the sea, namely 593 XXII| cup-bearers and the other figures which I have said entered 594 XX| mysterious wells for those who fill their pitchers from them.~ ~ 595 XLII| in clearing him from the filth thrown by others, nay in 596 XXIII| include this story in the final counts retained against 597 XLI| For in this way we shall finally and completely refute the 598 VII| its glory upon mankind, finish in darkness its shortlived 599 IV| divine doctrine which he firmly laid down and handed on 600 VI| nature. So it is that the fish that lives in the waters 601 XVII| there arose a lead-coloured flame ; and there were two jars 602 XXV| It vanished with a mild flash of lightning, for indeed 603 XXXIX| language as this, proceeds to flatter the tyrant, and cynically 604 XXXIX| a man who was at once a flatterer and a liar, and anything 605 XXIX| for unless you approve of flatterers, you will find the fellow 606 XXXIX| eyesight." And then by way of flattering the sovereign he adds the 607 XXXIX| against Domitian, he now flatters him, generous fellow that 608 VI| lowering their faculty of flight, and by relaxing the working 609 II| the reign of Nero, there flourished Apollonius of Tyana, who 610 XXVIII| modes maker of playing the flute, as if it were the most 611 XXVIII| in the book he brings a flute-player upon the stage, and he relates 612 XLI| hero among those who are fond of learning, nor can we 613 XXXIX| Meles, he said : ' Thou fool, how much art thou mistaken 614 XLII| If therefore anyone is so foolhardy as to controvert the fact 615 XXXIV| follower's grief, he put his foot back again into its former 616 XI| the same author. For after forbidding Damis, so we are told, to 617 XXVII| was enabled to make such forecasts by some divine impulse, 618 XLII| manner of existence wholly foreign to the proper nature of 619 I| on the same topic., has forestalled any solution of your difficulties 620 X| inspired him subsequently to foretell what the sparrow meant when 621 XVII| working like base mechanics at forge and steel, even if they 622 XXVII| rings from them, but now he forgets all about it, and does not 623 IV| many people ; nor that he formed a group of genuine and really 624 XXX| distress by Apollonius, who forthwith proceeds to divine whose 625 XXXIX| occasion I had not your fortunes in my mind." In this passage, 626 XXIII| for him to rebut a charge founded upon it by any defence which 627 XXIX| source? Why, he has perfect fountains of wealth, and already at 628 XXI| if they had among them a four-footed animal called a martichora, 629 IX| that "when he reached his fourteenth year his father took him 630 XLI| your honey-cake and your frankincense, and putting on the cloak 631 XXIII| told will convince him that fraud and make-believe was in 632 XLII| and these are naturally free, unhindered and unimpeded. 633 VI| privilege of immortality and free-will. On these then, as lord 634 XXV| hero which, having been freed from the crass matter of 635 XXXI| by the mad dog ; and the frenzied dog itself was restored 636 XI| others., how to recognize and frequent in their conversations gods, 637 X| same way when he saw the freshly-slain lioness with her eight whelps 638 VIII| form. But she, in no way frightened, asked him what she would 639 XXIV| author intentionally gives a frigid turn to his questions, in 640 XIX| excessive credulity and frivolity ; and after himself believing 641 XLI| the Fates were bound to be fulfilled in your case.~ ~And why 642 XXXIX| the dead and live again in fulfilment of the decrees of the Fates ; 643 XLI| is by necessity that he fulfils his destined term ? And 644 XXII| round the cups in a circle, fully betrays and exposes the 645 XXXIII| of vulgar effrontery and fulsome praise of himself. They 646 XXIV| custom to offer him the due funeral rites, and furthermore still 647 XXIV| the due funeral rites, and furthermore still nursing wrath against 648 XXXI| that his apprehension of futurity was anyhow in some cases, 649 XLI| of the Egyptians, and to Gadeira and to the pillars of Hercules ; 650 XXXIX| for running in the Olympic games, will never fail to win, 651 XXI| other side of the river Ganges ; but as to the other things 652 XXII| initiative into their sacred garments. And we hear that each of 653 XL| run into the temple, the gates were closed and a strange 654 XLII| eyes of your intelligence, gaze upon the august countenance 655 XVII| upon the head rivalling the gem of Gyges, as mentioned in 656 XXXIX| Domitian, he now flatters him, generous fellow that he is, and pretends 657 XXIX| in these words: " ' These gentlemen here are also good advisers 658 XIV| and a barbarian to boot, gets rid of the interpreter, 659 XII| enquire curiously about the ghost of Proteus, or to ask for 660 XXVII| either by tormenting the ghosts whom they encounter, or 661 XII| matters, and so was able by giving the best of advice to rid 662 XXXV| this, and endeavours to gloze over the fact, when he pretends 663 IV| displays the virtue of his godlike might in the expulsion, 664 XVII| privilege of having images and gold on his throne, just as if 665 XLII| controls the universe and governs it executes its rounds in 666 VI| economy and of gifts of grace his bestowal of which will 667 XVIII| that the earth too strewed grass beneath them of her own 668 VIII| bookl we learn that his grave was nowhere to be found 669 XXVIII| delivered himself with great gravity of long essays upon the 670 XLI| worst of cowards from the greatest of heroes ; for they have 671 XXIX| the doorkeepers, just as greedy dogs might be. But he never 672 XXXIV| alleviated his follower's grief, he put his foot back again 673 XXIII| teaches us. And on other grounds, too, this story of the 674 IV| people ; nor that he formed a group of genuine and really sincere 675 XXIV| cubits high, and subsequently growing till it was twelve cubits 676 IX| IX~ ~WELL, we will not grudge him his natural and self-taught 677 VI| indissoluble bonds, and they guard and observe the all-wise 678 XVIII| cup-bearers of bronze drew for the guests in due mixture both the 679 XIV| him to supply him with a guide on his journey to the Brahmans. 680 XXXVIII| he not rather to be found guilty of false wisdom and carry 681 VIII| who assumes from birth the guise and personality of a demon 682 XVII| head rivalling the gem of Gyges, as mentioned in Plato. 683 XXXIV| its former condition and habit. After that he was brought 684 VI| possible, so that the lowly habitant of earth should ever raise 685 XXXV| unusual and contrary to his habitual performances. In reference 686 XXI| while from its tail projects hairs like thorns a cubit long, 687 XVII| like conjurers make their handiwork to move by itself. But the 688 XXXI| silence in Rome itself, if it happened when the sovereign was close 689 XV| are to be esteemed thrice happy and beloved of the gods, 690 XXXVII| most careful of manners an harangue in defence of himself, quite 691 XVII| of wonderful water, and hard by a crater of fire, from 692 | Hath 693 XVII| extraordinary size, from whose heads were thrown off sparks of 694 XII| that way restored him to health : and so far we must needs 695 XXXVI| understanding of the dumb and heareth him who speaks not"~ ~is 696 XX| philosophers, much less at the hearth of men who were equal to 697 XXIII| reading this would not laugh heartily at the miracle-mongering 698 VII| excellence, sowing in men's hearts a spirit truly immortal 699 XXXVIII| Emperor, so I made him." Heavens, what braggadocio! No ordinary 700 IV| their divine inspiration, by Hebrew sages who lived far back 701 XXV| Priam, and the praise of Hector is never out of his mouth." 702 II| thereupon after passing heedlessly by Aristeas of Proconnesus 703 VI| for a superior to quit his heights and condescend to the lowly, 704 XXIV| over his tomb, and whether Helen had really come to Troy, -- 705 XXIV| had ever been among the Hellenes so many heroes all at one 706 XVII| Lake and of certain other Hellenic gods. And the master of 707 XI| this man was Euxenus of Heraclea in Pontus. But he had a 708 XLII| XLII~ ~HOWEVER, the herald of truth will raise his 709 XLI| Gadeira and to the pillars of Hercules ; and it was she who forced 710 XV| tongue? And where did you get hereabouts the philosophy you possess ? 711 XXXVIII| accounted gods and also did not hesitate to entitle his teachers, 712 XXVI| safely reject it. Anyhow he hesitates and doubts, whether after 713 XXXVIII| mankind, could indulge in such high-faluting bombast without exposing 714 II| Philostratus of Athens, men of the highest education, who out of respect 715 XII| somewhat exaggerated and highly-coloured out of compliment to a good 716 XIII| I repeat, have tried to hinder him from consuming the flesh 717 XIII| that he should not have hindered Damis, as his best friend., 718 XI| the author anyhow gives no hint of any such thing. Still 719 XXII| he healed his dislocated hip, how he vouchsafed to restore 720 XLI| puppet pulled by strings hither and thither. The nature 721 XIX| things, and what opinion we hold of men gifted with such 722 XXXVIII| which weighed upon him, he holds the following language concerning 723 XX| refreshed itself, as do holy and mysterious wells for 724 XXIII| now that he has got him home again, plunges straight 725 XXIX| might be regarded as an honest man, if we could suppose 726 XLI| consider to be gods, your honey-cake and your frankincense, and 727 VIII| of Asclepius he was much honoured by the god, and is said 728 XVIII| other two, the one supplied hot water and the other cold. 729 XXV| would have found such an hour seasonable and appropriate 730 XXIX| as a merchant might or a huckster, or a tax-gatherer or a 731 VI| repose or abode ; nor by any huge leap can any tenant of earth 732 V| of Tyana as having been, humanly speaking, a kind of sage, 733 XXV| both rancorous and mean in humour. For how else can we characterise 734 XXI| like arrows at those who hunt it. Such then were the questions 735 XV| treasure which had been hunted up in a field, the question 736 XX| in their presence as to hurl defiance at the Sun and 737 XXIII| the showers of stones they hurled at it, and that it was crushed 738 XL| were closed and a strange hymn of maidens was heard to 739 VIII| physical body accompanied by hymns and dances. Naturally if 740 XLI| itself would, on such ail hypothesis, effect nothing of its own 741 X| the bystanders with the idea that he had worked a mighty 742 XLI| neglected the philosophical ideal ? And why do you insult 743 XLI| her spindles whirled you idly around. But if anyone admits, 744 II| II~ ~I NEED not say with what 745 III| III~ ~Now Damis who spent -so 746 XV| men, are to be esteemed ill-starred wretches. For if one follows 747 VI| the entire human race, and illuminate the world of mankind more 748 VI| bounty, bestow plenteously an illumination as it were of the light 749 XXXV| prison, which it seems was an illusion, imposed on the eyes of 750 VI| carrying in his soul the image of some great god. Surely 751 XXXIV| the misfortunes which he imagined had befallen his teacher; 752 XXII| staff and a ring which was imbued with mysterious power. There 753 X| accomplishments otherwise than by imitating their example ? We must 754 X| which led into Assyria, he immediately conjectured from what he 755 VI| conferred the privilege of immortality and free-will. On these 756 XXXIX| threads they spin are so immutable that, if they decree a kingdom 757 XXXI| have been a premonition imparted to him in intercourse with 758 XLII| registered as an atheist and impious man in the tribunal of the 759 XXIV| being in themselves of much importance. Thereupon he falls to wondering 760 X| fellows to a meal, and so to impress the bystanders with the 761 XXVI| died, the story clearly impressed Philostratus himself as 762 XLI| not differ from the most imprudent, nor the unjustest from 763 XXVII| forecasts by some divine impulse, and that it is no sound 764 XLII| will itself alternative impulses of virtue and vice ; and 765 XXVI| man who was addicted to impure rites. We also hear about 766 XXVII| bring him also under the imputation under which his teachers 767 XXXV| sacrifice or any sort of incantation by some ineffable and superhuman 768 XXVII| or by means of certain incantations or anointings. But Apollonius 769 XLI| virtues to those who are incapable of reform ? Why do you blame 770 XVI| setting before you these incidents out of the second book, 771 XVII| says, of bronze, but not incised and not so high. For I suppose 772 XL| manner of his end, he yet inclines to believe that he went 773 XXIII| has been careful not to include this story in the final 774 XXXII| refutes itself by its very incongruities, so enabling us to detect 775 XII| merely human, and in no way incongruous with philosophy or with 776 XXXIX| else, convicted by their inconsistencies of being downright liars, 777 XXVI| demons is expelled from an incorrigible youth, while the second 778 IX| Pythagoras with a certain indescribable wisdom." So varied was the 779 XXXIV| forth four counts of the indictment which he imagines it will 780 VI| by unbreakable laws and indissoluble bonds, and they guard and 781 VII| niggardly liberal to some one individual like Damis and to a few 782 XXXIV| these the first was : What induced him to wear a different 783 XXXVIII| the rest of mankind, could indulge in such high-faluting bombast 784 XXXI| clearly the victim of an indwelling demon ; and both it and 785 XXXV| sort of incantation by some ineffable and superhuman power.~ ~ 786 XIII| should tell him for reasons inexplicable to me that it will do no 787 XXIII| undergone vitiation ? for the infection could not have been confined 788 XXII| dress, from which we must infer that these philosophers 789 XXVII| and that it is no sound inference to suppose, as some people 790 XVII| the rest of them, who were inferior teachers to him, were sitting, 791 IV| mysterious power, than the infidels who persecuted him so bitterly, 792 XXVIII| For Apollonius himself has informed us a little before in the 793 XII| and also, as the narrative informs us, kept himself throughout 794 XLII| a justice which punishes infractions of the divine law ; but 795 XXIII| if he was really what the initial assumption made by Philostratus 796 XXVI| Athens, when he desired to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries, 797 XXXIV| acquitted he, wiih curious inopportuneness, as it seems to me, cried 798 XXXV| at the fetters, and then inserting his leg in them afresh, 799 XXX| it was that the dog had inside him ; and we learn that 800 XLI| teacher Pythagoras, and insist on praising one who, instead 801 XXII| are true, when his very insistence on the truth of his earlier 802 I| Lover of Truth," without insisting on the necessity of our 803 XXV| Apollonius ? For Achilles insists that he shall not initiate 804 XLI| responsibility for their unbridled insolence, and acquit them of all 805 XX| excite our wonder that so insolent a fellow and so great a 806 IV| thanks to their divine inspiration, by Hebrew sages who lived 807 X| liver of dragons." In this instance, then, it seems anyhow to 808 VI| paths of earth, without instantly paying the penalty of his 809 XXI| to the sages, and Iarchas instructed him about the pigmies, and 810 XII| inasmuch as he repelled with insults a lover who designed to 811 IV| philosophers, but even among men of integrity and good sense, much less 812 XLII| raising the eyes of your intelligence, gaze upon the august countenance 813 XXIII| what the sparrow wanted and intended when it summoned its fellows 814 I| due season ; but to all intents and purposes they have, 815 XXXIX| written ostensibly in the interest of truth draws a picture 816 VI| and will despatch the most intimate of his own messengers from 817 XVII| the Brahmans, Philostratus introduces us to a lady who met Apollonius, 818 XXXIX| a philosopher; for after inveighing so bitterly on the earlier 819 XXIX| wise and good man, and then inveighs against him in this style 820 XVI| miraculous legends ever invented by any story-tellers, turn 821 XXII| aspire to imitate these inventions, it is clear that his disclaimer 822 XXXV| wizard." Surely one may invert this argument and use it 823 IV| the expulsion, by the mere invocation of his mysterious name, 824 XXIV| suspicion of his having irreligiously pryed into the secrets of 825 XXXI| own monument, quitting the Islands of the Blest and the places 826 XXXIX| thrones, when they grew up and issued forth against them out of 827 IV| IV~ ~IF then we may be permitted 828 IX| IX~ ~WELL, we will not grudge 829 XXXVI| permits you to reside in the jail where prisoners are not 830 VI| being can ever feel any jealousy of any thing. It follows 831 XX| philosophy with drunken jests, and that he got so tipsy 832 XII| inasmuch as the latter joined him much later on in the 833 XV| men who excel others, if judged by the standard of philosophy, 834 XXXIX| Vitellius, and the temple of Jupiter was burnt on the brow of 835 XLI| nor the unjustest from the justest, nor the most abandoned 836 XXXIX| immutable that, if they decree a kingdom to another which already 837 XXIX| and Dion have long been known to you and they are at your 838 XL| writers, he declares that he knows nothing of the truth ; for 839 XI| affectation of solemnity he only labels himself with the philosopher' 840 IV| doctrine which he firmly laid down and handed on has come 841 XXXIX| Acrisii and to the house of Laius, and to Astyages, the Mede, 842 XVII| and of Dionysus of the Lake and of certain other Hellenic 843 XXIV| the dead with the blood of lambs, I managed to converse with 844 XXII| by stroking a man who was lame he healed his dislocated 845 XXII| sessions which he held with larchas ; and he says that Apollonius 846 XXIII| after reading this would not laugh heartily at the miracle-mongering 847 XXVI| later on, is related to have launched against Apollonius the accusation 848 XXXV| to his departure from the law-courts, I will quote the words 849 XLII| countenance of truth. It is not lawful for truth to be in conflict 850 VI| but otherwise it cannot lawfully transcend its bounds, nor 851 XXIV| as to stimulate others to lead the philosophical life of 852 XVII| from which there arose a lead-coloured flame ; and there were two 853 XXIX| really by their admission a leader in all philosophy, it is 854 VI| abode ; nor by any huge leap can any tenant of earth 855 | least 856 XL| the cave of Trophonius in Lebadea; but the people there would 857 XI| story was true, then the legend was false, and the allegation 858 XL| as a wizard. Surely it is legitimate in us to be puzzled, when 859 XXIII| plunges straight into a lengthy description of his miracles. 860 IX| displayed a knowledge of letters and great power of memory, 861 XLI| class on one and the same level, according to him, Pythagoras 862 XXVI| among the other charges levelled against him. Well, just 863 XVIII| so that they stood there levitated up in the air itself for 864 XVI| of reckless credulity and levity of character, while claiming 865 XXVI| rites. We also hear about a lewd fellow who went begging 866 XXXIX| at once a flatterer and a liar, and anything rather than 867 XXV| sacrificing and pouring out libations to him ? The only exception 868 VII| Instead of being so niggardly liberal to some one individual like 869 XXXI| himself? Then again the licentious youth was clearly the victim 870 XLII| him openly proclaim that lie is an atheist, seeing that 871 XXXI| he himself said, to the lightness and purity of his diet, 872 | likely 873 XII| teachers mentioned, but, if he likes, I will allow that he became 874 XLI| of Clotho had reached its limit, and that being so why did 875 XXIX| sell. And he clings like a limpet to the doors of the mighty, 876 XL| others said that he died in Lindus after entering the temple 877 XL| your hero up to in this line, for him alone to have been 878 XII| of an ancient family and lineally descended from the first 879 XXXVII| along extremely plausible lines ; but the latter, by refusing 880 VI| however much he scorns to linger upon the paths of earth, 881 XXVI| spark of life might have not lingered on in the girl unnoticed 882 XXXI| Achilles should not have been lingering about his own monument, 883 X| he saw the freshly-slain lioness with her eight whelps by 884 IX| That he also diligently listened to the doctrines of Epicurus, 885 XXVIII| What else can anyone do but loathe this utterance for its boastfulness, 886 XVII| from her head down to her loins, was wholly white in colour, 887 XLI| for them ; and we must no longer reckon your hero among those 888 XXII| these philosophers plied the loom and occupied themselves 889 VIII| one occasion after he had loosed himself from his bonds, 890 XXXIX| the mark, even though he lose his eyesight." And then 891 XI| truth, we are still at a loss to know, how he can pretend 892 XXVII| prescience, our author is so lost in admiration as to add 893 XXXIX| of drunkenness, read out loud and in a truth-loving tone 894 XXIX| or a tax-gatherer or a low money-changer; for all these 895 XXVIII| XXVIII~ ~AND a little lower down in the book he brings 896 VI| earth, by depressing and lowering their faculty of flight, 897 XXVIII| does it approach downright madness, for one who was the pilot 898 XXXI| it might not seem to be magical and uncanny, if he owed 899 XXXVIII| following language concerning magicians and wizards; " But I call 900 XXVI| after him of his subordinate magistrates, and least of all of the 901 XLI| again in the case of the maiden raised to life, the thread 902 XL| closed and a strange hymn of maidens was heard to issue from 903 XXIII| convince him that fraud and make-believe was in this case everything, 904 | makes 905 XII| of advice to rid of his malady one who had come to the 906 XXV| occasion is represented as of a malignant and envious disposition, 907 XXVII| and does not see that in maligning the teachers, he maligns 908 XXVII| maligning the teachers, he maligns the disciple.~ ~ 909 XXX| of their country and of man-eaters and of shadow-footed men 910 XV| absurdity of the conclusion is manifest to everyone.~ ~ 911 XXXVII| composes in the most careful of manners an harangue in defence of 912 XXI| four-footed animal called a martichora, which has a head like that 913 XVIII| miracle-monger adds another marvel to these, when he tells 914 V| upon the man, using the mask of Pythagorean discipline 915 XXII| grew for them to supply material for their dress, from which 916 VIII| he writes about a certain meadow and about swans, that assisted 917 X| called his fellows to a meal, and so to impress the bystanders 918 XXXIX| capable of all villainy and meanness ; unless indeed you assume 919 XIII| see their abstinence from meat had in no way advanced their 920 XVII| take to working like base mechanics at forge and steel, even 921 VI| nor being a man must one meddle with what appertains to 922 XL| caught by men of good sense meddling with things that were unlawful ? 923 XXXIX| Laius, and to Astyages, the Mede, and to many other monarchs 924 XXIII| and evil exhalations, as medical theory teaches us. And on 925 XXXIV| up the Arcadian boy ? To meet these then he alleges Apollonius 926 VI| back into the disease of melancholy.~ ~It is wisest then for 927 XXXIX| stood close by that of the Meles, he said : ' Thou fool, 928 XII| more on the subject of his memoir.~ ~ 929 XXXI| played off its mad pranks on Menippus, were probably driven out 930 II| greater number, and only mention a few." Then he begins at 931 II| What then is my reason for mentioning these facts? It was in order 932 XXVII| arguing about wizards, he mentions them too and says that their 933 XXIX| he discusses prices as a merchant might or a huckster, or 934 XLI| so out of respect to your merits ; far from it, seeing that 935 XVII| introduces us to a lady who met Apollonius, and who, from 936 XXVII| philosophy which, if I may use a metaphor from the stage, the Indians 937 XXXI| to its senses by the same method. You must then, as I said, 938 XI| alone to school with them at midday and about midnight; alone 939 XI| them at midday and about midnight; alone in order not to have 940 IV| triumphed and shown himself far mightier, thanks to his divine and 941 XXV| says, " It vanished with a mild flash of lightning, for 942 XXIX| but what anyone who was minded to do so could take this 943 XL| prophets in Egypt, and had mingled their ideas with his own 944 XXXI| been accomplished through a ministry of demons ; for the resuscitation 945 XVIII| whenever they chose. And the miracle-monger adds another marvel to these, 946 VII| yourself of fallacy and miscalculation.~ ~ 947 XLI| as you believe, to their miserable life ? And why do you keep 948 XXXIV| extremely downcast at the misfortunes which he imagined had befallen 949 | miss 950 VI| understanding and dissipated the mist of mortality, may well be 951 XXXIX| fool, how much art thou mistaken in thy views of Necessity 952 XVIII| drew for the guests in due mixture both the wine and the water, 953 XXIII| when Apollonius ordered the mob to stone him, began by shooting 954 XI| belly and his desires and modelled his life on that of Epicurus. 955 XXVIII| essays upon the different modes maker of playing the flute, 956 XXXV| to Domitian. For when the monarch ordered him to be thrown 957 XXXIX| Mede, and to many other monarchs who thought that their power 958 XXIX| Egyptian out of other people's money, and sharpening his tongue 959 XXIX| a tax-gatherer or a low money-changer; for all these roles are 960 XLI| blame those who are the monsters they are, not of their own 961 XXIX| when he attacks him for his monstrous conduct; and to suppose 962 XXXIX| pretends that the doctrines he mooted in Ionia about the Fates 963 XXIII| air being changed into a morbid condition composed of noxious 964 IV| mere foolish and deluded mortals.~ ~ 965 XLII| divine law ; but for the motives on which we act the responsibility 966 XXVII| from the stage, the Indians mount, as it deserved to be mounted, 967 XVII| her person was black. The mountains again, as they went forward 968 XXVII| mount, as it deserved to be mounted, upon a lofty and divine 969 XXV| Hector is never out of his mouth." And how could he be other 970 XXIII| much trouble to acquire the multifarious lore of Arabs and of Magi 971 XLI| character, a magician or a murderer and a wicked man and a reprobate, 972 XXIV| buried, and of whether the Muses and Nereids had bestowed 973 XXVI| Apollonius, although there are a myriad other cases in the book 974 VII| blessings, conferred on myriads not only of his contemporaries, 975 III| time with Apollonius was a native of Assyria, where for the 976 XXVIII| for its boastfulness, so nearly does it approach downright 977 XXV| matter of the body, must necessarily be good and unsullied. In 978 XV| of things that were not necessary to them, unless they proved 979 XV| a bare living and of the necessities of life, unless they had 980 XXIV| that there was no colour of necromancy in the manner in which the 981 XXXI| enquiries, as he would not have needed to do, if he had been endowed 982 XXII| after the stars, and held it needful to wear these all through 983 XXIII| our doing so will render needless any further criticism of 984 XXIII| Ephesus, and did not visit the neighbouring populations ; and how could 985 XV| off and richer than their neighbours, are to be esteemed thrice 986 | neither 987 XXIV| of whether the Muses and Nereids had bestowed their dirges 988 XXXVI| well he might be, at the news, that he suddenly drops 989 VII| excellence. Instead of being so niggardly liberal to some one individual 990 XXV| doing it in the dead of night and alone ? Why, too, did 991 XII| later on in the city of Nineveh of Assyria. I am however 992 II| actions of a man at once noble and a friend of the gods." 993 XLI| Fate that led you in her noose to the Naked sages of the 994 II| this point is also worth noticing, that whereas the tales 995 XXIX| when the latter asks him to notify to him those whom he most 996 XII| the temple a man who was notorious for his wickedness, although 997 XL| in the age in which thev nourished, and also bequeathed to 998 | nowhere 999 XXIII| morbid condition composed of noxious and evil exhalations, as 1000 IV| worked more wondrous and numerous miracles than the other ;