IntraText Table of Contents | Words: Alphabetical - Frequency - Inverse - Length - Statistics | Help | IntraText Library |
Eusebius Pamphilii of Caesarea Treatise against the life of Apollonius of Tyana Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
bold = Main text Paragraphgrey = Comment text
1001 XXIV| rites, and furthermore still nursing wrath against the Trojans 1002 XXXVIII| his own history. For when oak trees and elms talk in articulate 1003 XII| region. Nor would anyone object to his being classed among 1004 XLII| stage, we shall raise no objection to their doing so. At the 1005 XLII| bodily processes and external objects which are both lifeless 1006 XXXIX| forth against them out of obscurity in accordance with destiny. 1007 IV| facts, we shall no doubt obtain a clear demonstration of 1008 XXII| philosophers plied the loom and occupied themselves with spinning 1009 XLI| the eastern and western oceans, and along with her spindles 1010 XXIV| digging any trench like Odysseus, and without tempting the 1011 | often 1012 XXXIX| prize for running in the Olympic games, will never fail to 1013 XXXIII| these words brags about his omniscience, before he goes much further 1014 XXIV| We next learn that the omniscient one, who boasted of his 1015 III| question from that time onwards. Maximus however wrote quite 1016 XXII| them, as being divinely operated, why did he not imitate 1017 XXXIV| me too, if you will, an opportunity to speak; but if not, then 1018 XLII| upholding conflicting and opposed opinions, let him be classed 1019 XLI| why did you sanction the opposite and so try to thwart destiny ? 1020 XLII| nor that of two pronounced opposites there should exist but one 1021 X| future in the same way as oracles. And they get to understand 1022 XXIX| if we could suppose that originally, and before he learned by 1023 XXII| companions at the country of the Oritae, where he found the rocks 1024 XXXIX| passage, a treatise written ostensibly in the interest of truth 1025 XLI| body in being moved by some outside agency, and would be as 1026 XXIII| me, and when I saw it I overcame it, not by staying the course 1027 XXXVI| who speaks not"~ ~is so overjoyed., as well he might be, at 1028 V| compiler or chronicler, to overleap the bounds of humanity and 1029 XXXIX| on the brow of the hill, overlooking the city. And Vitellius 1030 XLII| time if anyone ventures to overpass the limits of truth and 1031 XXXIX| that not even tyrants can overpower the decrees of the Fates." 1032 XXIII| afterwards, when he had been overwhelmed by the stones thrown at 1033 XV| think that you can say you owe it to teachers anyhow, for 1034 XXXI| magical and uncanny, if he owed it, as he himself said, 1035 XL| mean the passage where he owns that he is puzzled at people 1036 XXIX| so could take this as a palmary example of slander and back-biting 1037 XVIII| foreknowledge ; and by way of parading the inspired character of 1038 I| no little admiration the parallel which, embellished with 1039 XV| to judge between certain parties about a treasure which had 1040 I| authorities. Not but what these parts also of his treatise call 1041 IV| courts all over the province, passes on Christians, and at the 1042 II| been vamped up by Peter and Paul and a few others of the 1043 VI| earth, without instantly paying the penalty of his folly ; 1044 XX| possesses me to call them the peers of gods and chaff them about 1045 XVII| Brahmans, were planted with pepper trees, and the apes cultivated 1046 VI| constantly being brought to perfection ; and they are arranged 1047 XVI| these quite reliable and perfectly true. It is anyhow worth 1048 XVIII| education, and about his periodical voyages abroad, and about 1049 IX| Chrysippus and members of the Peripatetic set. That he also diligently 1050 XLII| say : O ye men, mortal and perishable race, whither are you drifting, 1051 XXXIX| had decreed otherwise, he perished with all his counsels, while 1052 VI| waters, and embrace there any permanent repose or abode ; nor by 1053 XXIV| learn about, and the Fates permit him to know of. We next 1054 XXXVI| you from these chains, and permits you to reside in the jail 1055 IV| IV~ ~IF then we may be permitted to contrast the reckless 1056 XLI| immortal, for that which is perpetually moving is immortal, whereas 1057 IV| power, than the infidels who persecuted him so bitterly, those who 1058 XI| studies he undertook among the Persians also, according to the account 1059 XI| having learnt from Pythagoras personally, or to teach others., how 1060 XLI| should be afflicted with pestilence, why did you sanction the 1061 II| Jesus have been vamped up by Peter and Paul and a few others 1062 I| of the "Lover of Truth " (Philalethes), for so he has thought 1063 XI| Pythagoras, and Archytas too, and Philolaus the one man who has handed 1064 IX| Tarsus, to Euthydemus of Phoenicia, who was a good rhetor, 1065 VIII| he went to heaven in his physical body accompanied by hymns 1066 VI| use as it is right for the physician to visit the sick, and for 1067 XXXIX| interest of truth draws a picture of a man who was at once 1068 XLI| and to Gadeira and to the pillars of Hercules ; and it was 1069 XLII| disentangling him from the pinchbeck properties in which the 1070 XLII| man in the tribunal of the pious and of philosophers. And 1071 XX| for those who fill their pitchers from them.~ ~ 1072 XXXI| Islands of the Blest and the places of repose, as people would 1073 XVII| road to the Brahmans, were planted with pepper trees, and the 1074 XXXVII| apology along extremely plausible lines ; but the latter, 1075 XXXI| Lamia which is said to have played off its mad pranks on Menippus, 1076 XXVIII| different modes maker of playing the flute, as if it were 1077 XLI| been demonstrated to be playthings of destiny and of the Fates.~ ~ 1078 II| not a god, but only a man pleasing to the gods, they on the 1079 VI| appreciate his bounty, bestow plenteously an illumination as it were 1080 XXII| that these philosophers plied the loom and occupied themselves 1081 VI| bred on dry land will not plunge into the waters, and embrace 1082 XXIII| has got him home again, plunges straight into a lengthy 1083 XXXVI| coming, and according to the poet~ ~" Hath understanding of 1084 XXIX| in such matters,' and he pointed to Dion and to Euphrates, 1085 XVII| among them images of Athene Polias and of Apollo Pythius, and 1086 XXIX| advisers and counsellors of his policy, Apollonius replies in these 1087 XXIV| enquires most earnestly whether Polyxena had been slain over his 1088 XVII| lofty throne in a state of pomp that was far from philosophic, 1089 XI| was Euxenus of Heraclea in Pontus. But he had a good acquaintance 1090 XV| the other hand only the poorest, say, even a Socrates, or 1091 XXIII| not visit the neighbouring populations ; and how could this not 1092 III| quite a short account of a portion only of his career. Philostratus, 1093 I| accurately to understand my own position. I will therefore ask you 1094 XV| hereabouts the philosophy you possess ? For I do not think that 1095 XXXIX| other were slain by the possessor for fear lest he should 1096 XI| with the gods." Who can possibly allow this to be true of 1097 XXV| continually sacrificing and pouring out libations to him ? The 1098 XI| put his philosophy into practice ; for he was the slave of 1099 X| best know this language and practise it. For the Arabians have 1100 XXXI| have played off its mad pranks on Menippus, were probably 1101 II| Jesus, they run up and down prating of how he made the blind 1102 VI| philosophy. But he may well pray that some one may come to 1103 XLI| you go wandering about, preaching the virtues to those who 1104 XXXI| are the achievements which preceded his accusation, and it behoves 1105 XLI| their own choice, but by predestination ? And why too, if it was 1106 XXXIX| off; and he who has been predestined to carry off the prize for 1107 XXXIV| third, How had he managed to predict the plague to the Ephesians? 1108 XXIII| latter asked him what was his prediction, he answered: " Because, 1109 XVI| prides himself, when he prefers Philostratus to our own 1110 XXXV| follows, keeping to his own premisses: If you are not a wizard, 1111 XXXI| quite as well have been a premonition imparted to him in intercourse 1112 X| and other birds when they presage the future in the same way 1113 VI| are bounds of nature which prescribe and circumscribe the existence 1114 XXXVI| is supplied to us ; for presently a messenger presents himself 1115 XXXVI| for presently a messenger presents himself and says: " O Apollonius, 1116 XLI| learning, nor can we with any pretence of reason admire a philosophy 1117 IV| and handed on has come to prevail for ages without end all 1118 VI| that there is no reason to prevent a divine nature, being beneficent 1119 XXVIII| Indian that his soul had previously been that of a pilot.~ ~ 1120 XXV| much of a descendant of Priam, and the praise of Hector 1121 XXIX| at the banks he discusses prices as a merchant might or a 1122 XVI| of miracles on which he prides himself, when he prefers 1123 XL| had derived much from the priests and prophets in Egypt, and 1124 XLI| wise self-discipline in the prime of your life, or of your 1125 XXIII| answered: " Because, my prince, I use a very light diet, 1126 XXXV| comported himself like any other prisoner." I should be the last to 1127 XXXVI| reside in the jail where prisoners are not bound " ; whereupon 1128 XI| though it is against all probability, that he is not lying, but 1129 XII| ready to accept all that is probable and has an air of truth 1130 XXXII| remarks we have made, and proceed to consider the seventh 1131 XLII| for example, our bodily processes and external objects which 1132 XXIII| Hellas, the gods themselves proclaimed him to be the companion 1133 II| heedlessly by Aristeas of Proconnesus and Pythagoras as somewhat 1134 XII| equally little do I ask him to produce evidence of his fairy-tale 1135 XIII| moral advantage in them produced by such abstinence ?~ ~ 1136 XIII| imposed by the philosophic profession he had made in childhood. 1137 VII| spirit truly immortal of progress and reform. If on the other 1138 XXI| size, while from its tail projects hairs like thorns a cubit 1139 XLII| herself; nor that of two pronounced opposites there should exist 1140 XLII| existence wholly foreign to the proper nature of a reasonable living 1141 XII| another occasion he very properly excluded from the temple 1142 XLII| disentangling him from the pinchbeck properties in which the author of this 1143 XXVI| which his sooth-sayings and prophecies are set down to his gift 1144 X| stay in Persia, and made a prophecy thereof.~ ~ 1145 IV| only man of whom it was prophesied, thanks to their divine 1146 XXX| renews his interviews and his prophesies to Titus. Then we hear about 1147 XXVII| the gifts of the Pythian prophetess." And he is introduced to 1148 XL| much from the priests and prophets in Egypt, and had mingled 1149 XXXVII| much trouble and care to proportion the length of his apology 1150 VI| inclined to save and take providential care of things to come, 1151 XL| which he died, he adds the proviso : " If he did die." But 1152 XXIV| his having irreligiously pryed into the secrets of magic. 1153 XXXVIII| men together with what is published in his own history. For 1154 XLI| would be as it were a puppet pulled by strings hither and thither. 1155 XLII| accompanied by a justice which punishes infractions of the divine 1156 XLI| and would be as it were a puppet pulled by strings hither 1157 XV| opinion, and awards it to the purchaser, assigning his reason in 1158 XL| hero as one inspired by the purest wisdom, but had long since 1159 XXXI| said, to the lightness and purity of his diet, yet might quite 1160 VI| the feet given him for the purpose, and on the other hand to 1161 XXIX| thus attacked by him for pursuing, -- that was the accusation, -- 1162 XVIII| wine and the water, and pushed round the cups in a circle, 1163 XXVII| with all the gifts of the Pythian prophetess." And he is introduced 1164 XVII| Athene Polias and of Apollo Pythius, and of Dionysus of the 1165 XVIII| four tripods like those of Pytho which wheeled themselves 1166 XX| who, I suppose in his quality as god, as little as could 1167 XXIX| afterwards moved by his quarrel to use such language of 1168 XXXV| without even a word, he quietly laughed at the fetters, 1169 VI| studies, and for a superior to quit his heights and condescend 1170 XXXI| about his own monument, quitting the Islands of the Blest 1171 IV| rallies to his divine teaching races from all sides by tens of 1172 XXIII| a beggar and dressed in rags ; who, when Apollonius ordered 1173 XXII| wool in order to make their raiment, for we do not hear of any 1174 XVII| the one of which contained rain, and the other winds, from 1175 XXVI| according to report "it was raining at the time, and a vapour 1176 XLII| wake up and be sober; and, raising the eyes of your intelligence, 1177 IV| inhabited world, and still rallies to his divine teaching races 1178 XXIII| Who, I would ask, after reading this would not laugh heartily 1179 XL| when one compares what one reads at the beginning of the 1180 XXXV| a time with him, that he realised that he was indeed divine, 1181 XLII| to the proper nature of a reasonable living creature. As for 1182 I| from other people. We may reasonably confine our attention for 1183 XV| For if one follows the reasoning here used, one must allow 1184 IV| those who in their time rebelled against his divine teaching 1185 XXIII| was impossible for him to rebut a charge founded upon it 1186 XXII| Brahman, -- how for example he recalled to his senses by means of 1187 | recently 1188 XXVII| history of Philostratus recognises the persons above mentioned 1189 XXVI| to bestow alms on him in recognition of his clever accomplishments.~ ~ 1190 XXIX| that in consequence of his recommendation the latter threw open wide 1191 XXV| and still refused to be reconciled to the Trojans, because 1192 XXI| wisdom have scant title to be recorded at all. Thus we learn that 1193 XXIII| and that if ever anything reeked of wizardry this did. For 1194 XX| drink for all of them, and refreshed itself, as do holy and mysterious 1195 XXV| sacrificing to him, and still refused to be reconciled to the 1196 XXXVII| lines ; but the latter, by refusing to wait, renders all his 1197 XLI| shall finally and completely refute the tenets professed by 1198 XXXI| of his prescience can be refuted by a thousand arguments 1199 XXXII| books where the narrative refutes itself by its very incongruities, 1200 XXXIX| history, my author, and regaining your sobriety after, your 1201 XL| attention to them. However as regards his death, although Philostratus 1202 XII| afflicted with dropsy a regime of abstinence well suited 1203 XLII| those who are disposed to register this man's name in the schools 1204 XLII| Let such a person then be registered as an atheist and impious 1205 XXXIII| to make the change, nor regret at having worn it; but he 1206 XI| seen or unseen, and to be regular in converse with the gods." 1207 XXIX| him standing at them more regularly than any doorkeeper would 1208 XXVI| went begging about Rome, rehearsing the songs of Nero on his 1209 II| own ancestors, during the reign of Nero, there flourished 1210 XXVI| incredible, and we may safely reject it. Anyhow he hesitates 1211 XXXIII| to Rome, and Apollonius rejects his advice in words which 1212 XIII| a want of good taste by relating, as if it were a miracle, 1213 XXIII| now, after entering into relation with other teachers, to 1214 VI| faculty of flight, and by relaxing the working of their wings, 1215 XXXIV| Apollonius showed him his leg released without effort from the 1216 XXXVI| Apollonius, the Emperor releases you from these chains, and 1217 XLI| putting on the cloak of religion encourage your companions 1218 XLII| if after this there still remain those who are disposed to 1219 XL| surprise at the circumstance, remarking withal, that "although Empedocles 1220 XXIII| because our doing so will render needless any further criticism 1221 XXX| again to Hellas, where he renews his interviews and his prophesies 1222 VI| working of their wings, and renouncing the privilege of nature, -- 1223 XII| temperate, inasmuch as he repelled with insults a lover who 1224 V| transcend philosophy, and while repelling the charge of wizardry in 1225 XXIX| of his policy, Apollonius replies in these words: " ' These 1226 XXVI| he says that according to report "it was raining at the time, 1227 XII| made -- this I regard as reprehensible and calculated to fasten 1228 XXIX| the fellow worse than I represent him." Surely one who first 1229 XXV| conjured up on this occasion is represented as of a malignant and envious 1230 XLI| murderer and a wicked man and a reprobate, come what will, he must 1231 XXXIX| string out of my lyre, and request you to consider that on 1232 XXX| bitten by a mad dog. He is rescued from his distress by Apollonius, 1233 XLI| for otherwise it would resemble a lifeless body in being 1234 XXIII| of the plague -- and it resembled an aged beggar -- was both 1235 XXXIII| everything; at the same time I reserve my knowledge partly for 1236 XXXVI| chains, and permits you to reside in the jail where prisoners 1237 XI| suspect him to have had such resources at his disposal ? As for 1238 IV| educated, was in any case no respecter of truth. For such is his 1239 XXXIX| most highly educated and respectful of the truth, namely Damis 1240 XXII| one by one upon the days respectively called by their names.~ ~ 1241 XLI| the Fates, and pay your respects rather to Destiny than to 1242 IV| the case. To look for such results in the case of Apollonius, 1243 XXX| sixth book our story-teller resumes his tale of miracles ; for 1244 XXXI| ministry of demons ; for the resuscitation of the girl must be divested 1245 XXXI| the fact that he did not retain his gift of foreknowledge 1246 XXIII| story in the final counts retained against Apollonius, probably 1247 XXXV| and eluded the court and retinue of the Emperor, I mean of 1248 XXII| praiseworthy ? To crown all, on his return after he had stayed with 1249 XXIII| We learn that when he had returned from the country of the 1250 VI| the paths of heaven, and reveal himself to him as a teacher 1251 XXXVIII| must not omit to pass in review the defence which he so 1252 XLI| my good fellow, do you revile Euphrates and find fault 1253 IX| Phoenicia, who was a good rhetor, and gave him his education, 1254 XII| first settlers, and was rich, if it were so, beyond all 1255 XV| are comfortably off and richer than their neighbours, are 1256 XV| ever have given the other riches under the soil, unless he 1257 XII| the man in question as the richest and most distinguished of 1258 XLI| would have no gods left; and rightly too, seeing that they are 1259 XXII| them carried a staff and a ring which was imbued with mysterious 1260 XXIX| open to us to accuse his rival of censoriousness, when 1261 XVII| marvellous stones upon the head rivalling the gem of Gyges, as mentioned 1262 XXI| like that of a man, but rivals a lion in size, while from 1263 XXI| on the other side of the river Ganges ; but as to the other 1264 XXII| sand and the dust which the rivers bring down to the sea, all 1265 XXXIV| him to wear a different robe from everybody else ? and 1266 XXII| Oritae, where he found the rocks and the sand and the dust 1267 XLI| forward yourself in the role of the saviour of her life ?~ ~ 1268 XXIX| money-changer; for all these roles are his if there is anything 1269 XXVII| described as entering the room of their own accord, he 1270 XXXI| author says, and if a vapour rose over her face. For it is 1271 XLII| governs it executes its rounds in direct accordance with 1272 XXXIX| drawing my examples from royalty, I had reference, I admit, 1273 XLII| best, though unawares, be rubbing into him the accusation 1274 XLII| master of himself and judge, ruler and lord of himself; and 1275 IV| by all men, subjects and rulers alike, has at last triumphed 1276 VI| its end, being limits and rules imposed on everything. By 1277 XLI| who is destined to be a runner, or an archer or a carpenter, 1278 XXII| own initiative into their sacred garments. And we hear that 1279 XLI| Domitian, why do you not saddle upon the Fates and on Necessity 1280 XXVI| extremely incredible, and we may safely reject it. Anyhow he hesitates 1281 XXXIX| espouse the cause of the safety of all, and as it occurred 1282 XI| acquired this lore from the Samian himself above mentioned, 1283 XI| of Pythagoras, a man of Samos, who taught me to worship 1284 XIV| you notice what sort of samples of truth are set before 1285 XLI| pestilence, why did you sanction the opposite and so try 1286 XXII| found the rocks and the sand and the dust which the rivers 1287 XXIX| accusation, -- a life so little satisfactory to a philosopher.~ ~ 1288 XVII| rather appropriate to a satrap. And this throne was made 1289 XXX| shadow-footed men and of a satyr whom Apollonius made drunk. 1290 IV| peculiar divinity and virtue he saved the whole inhabited world, 1291 XXII| blessings on an author who saves us so much trouble. Can 1292 I| exhaustive manner and on the scale above mentioned by the author 1293 XXIV| indeed, because in this scene he is introduced as associating 1294 XXIII| diet, I was the first to scent the danger."~ ~And then 1295 IV| he converted to his own scheme of divine teaching so many 1296 IX| it, why was he taken to a school-master, and if he had never learnt 1297 XXVIII| important and clever of the sciences. And he relates how the 1298 VI| his body, however much he scorns to linger upon the paths 1299 XI| Pythagoras himself has left no scripture of the kind, nor any secret 1300 XVI| self-styled lover of truth has not scrupled to fasten on ourselves a 1301 XXXV| race, then it behoves us to scrutinize the reason which our author 1302 IV| Philostratus, and by close scrutiny of it show that Apollonius 1303 XLI| by your own account, a sea-faring man who spent his life upon 1304 I| their refutation in due season ; but to all intents and 1305 XXV| have found such an hour seasonable and appropriate for their 1306 XXIV| irreligiously pryed into the secrets of magic. For we may notice 1307 XVIII| off his superiority as a seer, by running off the names 1308 XXXII| examples then which we may select from the same books where 1309 I| attacked us, stands alone in selecting Apollonius, as he has recently 1310 XLI| of arts, or in your wise self-discipline in the prime of your life, 1311 IX| grudge him his natural and self-taught gift of understanding all 1312 XXIX| there is anything to buy or sell. And he clings like a limpet 1313 XXXIV| speak; but if not, then send someone to take my body, 1314 XLII| him be classed among the senseless and condemned to pay the 1315 XXIII| the gods, inasmuch as they sent on to him the sick to be 1316 XV| him to talk Greek. In the sequel, as if he were astonished 1317 XLII| our control are weak and servile, restrained and alien to 1318 XXII| present at the philosophical sessions which he held with larchas ; 1319 XVI| XVI~ ~AFTER setting before you these incidents 1320 XII| descended from the first settlers, and was rich, if it were 1321 XXXII| proceed to consider the seventh book of his history.~ ~ 1322 XXIII| For if anybody feels the shadow of doubt about the matter, 1323 | shalt 1324 XXV| and genuine companion, to share with him in this marvellous 1325 XI| more than anyone else he shared in the philosophy of Pythagoras, 1326 XXIX| other people's money, and sharpening his tongue against me, when 1327 XXI| which it is accustomed to shoot out like arrows at those 1328 XXIII| mob to stone him, began by shooting fire from his eyes, but 1329 VII| Damis and to a few other short-lived men, it should surely make 1330 VII| finish in darkness its shortlived career, instead of displaying 1331 XXXIX| Fates. For even if thou shouldst slay the man who is fated 1332 XXXIV| teacher; whereupon Apollonius showed him his leg released without 1333 XV| one must allow that on its showing the gods would never have 1334 IV| teaching races from all sides by tens of thousands ; nor 1335 IV| educated, yet never by actual sifting of the facts, established 1336 XXII| and to a blind man gave sight. Our blessings on an author 1337 IV| group of genuine and really sincere disciples, of whom almost 1338 XXV| of years before they had sinned against him, and that although 1339 XII| in addition, that he was skilful in ordinary matters, and 1340 V| instead concealed in a lion's skin; and we shall detect in 1341 XXIX| as a palmary example of slander and back-biting and use 1342 XVII| sparks of fire, and if you slew one of them, he : says that 1343 XXII| hear of any woman being smuggled into their community ; but 1344 XXVII| introduced as saying among the so-called Naked sages of the Egyptians, 1345 XXXIX| author, and regaining your sobriety after, your fit of drunkenness, 1346 XX| Philostratus, that a king who was sojourning in India is introduced to 1347 XXV| you admit to have been his sole and genuine companion, to 1348 XXIV| questions surely of a most solemn kind, and such as to stimulate 1349 XI| a wilful affectation of solemnity he only labels himself with 1350 XLI| on what principle do you solemnly enroll yourself a disciple 1351 IV| clear demonstration of the solidity and, as he imagines to himself, 1352 I| topic., has forestalled any solution of your difficulties which 1353 | someone 1354 | something 1355 XXIX| him in this style to his son, is openly convicted of 1356 XL| and the words of their song were : " Come, come, to 1357 XXVI| about Rome, rehearsing the songs of Nero on his lyre for 1358 XII| and to forget it almost as soon as it is made -- this I 1359 XXVI| in the book in which his sooth-sayings and prophecies are set down 1360 V| we shall detect in him a sophist in the truest sense, cadging 1361 XLII| this work of pretentious sophistry can only serve, in my opinion, 1362 XLI| wizards, by calling them false sophists, if they are dragged down 1363 XXI| and had accomplished all sorts of exploits which he enumerated 1364 XXVII| impulse, and that it is no sound inference to suppose, as 1365 XXIX| speak of wealth from that source? Why, he has perfect fountains 1366 XI| Pythagoras, but from other sources ; and with a wilful affectation 1367 VII| tradition of moral excellence, sowing in men's hearts a spirit 1368 XIV| the dumb and heard him who spake not"~ ~has to ask, by means 1369 XVII| whose heads were thrown off sparks of fire, and if you slew 1370 XXIV| the manner in which the spectre appeared to him, and says : " 1371 XXXIX| taught that the threads they spin are so immutable that, if 1372 XLI| bind a fresh thread on the spindle, by coming forward yourself 1373 XXII| occupied themselves with spinning wool in order to make their 1374 VI| penalty of his folly ; nor by spiritual exaltation can he in his 1375 XV| as a barbarian ? And in spite of his having admired him 1376 XXIII| have been confined to one spot, nor have beset the air 1377 XXII| that each of them carried a staff and a ring which was imbued 1378 XV| others, if judged by the standard of philosophy, even of a 1379 I| who have ever attacked us, stands alone in selecting Apollonius, 1380 XXIV| it was twelve cubits in stature, and accusing the Thessalians 1381 XVIII| struck the earth with their staves, and the earth arched itself 1382 X| the length of their future stay in Persia, and made a prophecy 1383 XXII| his return after he had stayed with them, we learn that 1384 XVII| base mechanics at forge and steel, even if they do not like 1385 XXIV| solemn kind, and such as to stimulate others to lead the philosophical 1386 VI| great a personality will stir up the entire human race, 1387 XXX| IN the sixth book our story-teller resumes his tale of miracles ; 1388 XVI| legends ever invented by any story-tellers, turn out to be by comparison 1389 XXIII| him home again, plunges straight into a lengthy description 1390 XL| gates were closed and a strange hymn of maidens was heard 1391 VI| were of the light which streams from him, and will despatch 1392 IV| the other ; nor let us lay stress on the point that our Saviour 1393 XVIII| tells us that the earth too strewed grass beneath them of her 1394 XXXIX| let me at once cut this string out of my lyre, and request 1395 XLI| were a puppet pulled by strings hither and thither. The 1396 XXXIX| were at the time quite a stripling, and not the man you are 1397 XXII| possessed with a demon, how by stroking a man who was lame he healed 1398 XVIII| standing round as if in chorus, struck the earth with their staves, 1399 XXIX| are still on the lips of students of philosophy. Not but what 1400 I| work of Celsus is there subjected to an examination in an 1401 IV| almost say, by all men, subjects and rulers alike, has at 1402 XXXV| wizard, then if he does not submit to them, he is a wizard 1403 XXXV| wizard ? And if, because he submits to the chains, he is not 1404 XXVI| emperor and after him of his subordinate magistrates, and least of 1405 XLI| our responsibility, and to substitute for it necessity, and destiny 1406 XLII| said that, even if they succeed in clearing him from the 1407 XXXVIII| than Pythagoras and his successors, and to be considered far 1408 VI| time, for the salvation and succour of men here below. Of these 1409 XXXVI| be, at the news, that he suddenly drops out of his gift of 1410 XII| regime of abstinence well suited to cure his disease, and 1411 XLI| youth of Athens; and, to sum up, the wisest man will 1412 XXIX| concerned for your welfare. Summon them also therefore to your 1413 XXIII| wanted and intended when it summoned its fellows to their dinner. 1414 IV| his mysterious name, of sundry troublesome and evil demons 1415 XL| that its praises are still sung. Is such a contrast possible, 1416 VI| nature can participate in the super-human; but otherwise it cannot 1417 XXIII| wonder-working; and it was superfluous for him to take so much 1418 XVIII| use it, to show off his superiority as a seer, by running off 1419 XL| say that they have found superstitious devices dedicated in the 1420 XXXI| which Philostratus' own text supplies, nevertheless, if we allow 1421 XXIX| within his house ; only supporting this Egyptian out of other 1422 XXXIX| established, and of whom some were supposed to have slain their own 1423 II| they were truly what he supposes them to have been, though 1424 XXV| reason, my good fellow, supposing that there was no devilish 1425 XII| then to contradict this supposition at a moment's warning, and 1426 XL| wizard, and expresses his surprise at the circumstance, remarking 1427 VIII| says to him : " Do not be surprised, for I know what men are 1428 XII| ridiculous story that swans surrounded his mother and assisted 1429 XXIII| have been the case, if the surrounding atmosphere had undergone 1430 I| who in his comprehensive survey of all that anyone has said 1431 IV| chaste living which has survived him all along ; nor that 1432 XXXII| contemporaries among whom his memory survives at all, are so far from 1433 XI| writings, such that we can even suspect him to have had such resources 1434 VI| and on the other hand to sustain his soul with education 1435 XLI| you ought to make a clean sweep of all the other gods, and 1436 I| even of their words and syllables, from other authorities. 1437 XXXVIII| waiters of copper serve at table, and jars are filled with 1438 XXI| in size, while from its tail projects hairs like thorns 1439 XIII| of the second. The story takes him on his travels and brings 1440 | taking 1441 XXX| story-teller resumes his tale of miracles ; for he brings 1442 XV| astonished to find the Indian talking Greek, as Philostratus consistently, 1443 IX| year his father took him to Tarsus, to Euthydemus of Phoenicia, 1444 XXIX| might or a huckster, or a tax-gatherer or a low money-changer; 1445 XI| Pythagoras personally, or to teach others., how to recognize 1446 IX| them, though he grasped the teachings of Pythagoras with a certain 1447 XXIV| like Odysseus, and without tempting the souls of the dead with 1448 VI| by any huge leap can any tenant of earth raise himself aloft 1449 IV| races from all sides by tens of thousands ; nor that 1450 XLI| he fulfils his destined term ? And again on what principle 1451 XLII| all men of sense to this terrible accusation.~ ~ ~ 1452 XXXVI| to go far, before a fresh test of his character is supplied 1453 XI| Pythagorean philosophy, it is testified that he was in no way better 1454 XXIV| companion, although our author testifies that he had learned nothing 1455 VIII| be found on earth ; but thai he went to heaven in his 1456 XXIII| miracle-mongering of this thaumaturge ? For we learn that the 1457 | thee 1458 XXIII| exhalations, as medical theory teaches us. And on other 1459 XV| how could he be astonished thereat, unless he had regarded 1460 | thereof 1461 XL| both in the age in which thev nourished, and also bequeathed 1462 XXI| tail projects hairs like thorns a cubit long, which it is 1463 XXXIX| and had taught that the threads they spin are so immutable 1464 XXIX| recommendation the latter threw open wide the doors of his 1465 XV| neighbours, are to be esteemed thrice happy and beloved of the 1466 XVI| admit that the tales of Thule, and any other miraculous 1467 XII| his fairy-tale about the thunderbolt ; for as I said before he 1468 XLI| the opposite and so try to thwart destiny ? Nay, why did you 1469 | thy 1470 XXXIX| fated to be despot after thyself, he shall corne to life 1471 XXIV| and subsequently growing till it was twelve cubits in 1472 XXI| name of wisdom have scant title to be recorded at all. Thus 1473 XXX| interviews and his prophesies to Titus. Then we hear about a youth 1474 VIII| Apollonius as using, in token of his being of a divine 1475 XXXVIII| articulate and feminine tones, and tripods move of their 1476 I| will ever say on the same topic., has forestalled any solution 1477 XXIV| ask him questions on five topics, such as he himself might 1478 XXVII| course of destiny, either by tormenting the ghosts whom they encounter, 1479 XLI| of philosophy, was a mere toy in the hands of the Fates ? 1480 VII| disciples, who continued their tradition of moral excellence, sowing 1481 XXIX| foreknowledge the fellow is traduced by his own historian; though 1482 XLI| of your life, or of your training . in philosophy; for it 1483 XXXVIII| real philosopher either, transcending the rest of mankind, could 1484 VI| limits, he is restrained from transgressing divine law by the rule and 1485 VI| him, on the one hand to transport his body along the ground 1486 VI| Consequently he can never traverse the air with his body, however 1487 XV| certain parties about a treasure which had been hunted up 1488 IV| teacher who, after being treated as an enemy for so many 1489 XXIV| For without digging any trench like Odysseus, and without 1490 XLII| atheist and impious man in the tribunal of the pious and of philosophers. 1491 XXXV| the help of some uncanny trick, and that is why, as he 1492 II| thaumaturgic feats not to the tricks of wizardry, but to a divine 1493 XIII| should not, I repeat, have tried to hinder him from consuming 1494 XLII| the limits of truth and tries to deify him as no other 1495 IV| rulers alike, has at last triumphed and shown himself far mightier, 1496 XL| descend into the cave of Trophonius in Lebadea; but the people 1497 XLI| and as it were raise a trophy over her ? And again in 1498 IV| mysterious name, of sundry troublesome and evil demons which beset 1499 V| in him a sophist in the truest sense, cadging for alms 1500 XIV| this Philostratus to whose truthfulness Hierocles the self-styled 1501 XLI| sanction the opposite and so try to thwart destiny ? Nay, 1502 XXXIX| is out of time and out of tune, let me at once cut this 1503 XXIV| dressed the first time in a tunic, and five cubits high, and 1504 XXIII| Magi and to the Indians had turned him into some miraculous 1505 XXIV| subsequently growing till it was twelve cubits in stature, and accusing 1506 XXXIX| and argued that not even tyrants can overpower the decrees 1507 XVIII| them of her own accord and unasked. And of these tripods two, 1508 VI| his thinking attain to the unattainable, without falling back into 1509 XXXVII| defence of himself, quite unaware that after all his composition 1510 XLII| will at the best, though unawares, be rubbing into him the 1511 VI| and they are arranged by unbreakable laws and indissoluble bonds, 1512 XLI| responsibility for their unbridled insolence, and acquit them 1513 XXIII| surrounding atmosphere had undergone vitiation ? for the infection 1514 XLII| cloak of other opinions undertakes to entertain ideas of Providence 1515 XI| Arabians were the studies he undertook among the Persians also, 1516 XXVII| I reckon to be the most unfortunate of mankind, claim to alter 1517 XLII| these are naturally free, unhindered and unimpeded. But such 1518 XIII| living animals, that being an unholy food according to Pythagoras, 1519 XXXI| his gift of foreknowledge uniformly and in all cases ; but was 1520 XLII| naturally free, unhindered and unimpeded. But such things as are 1521 XLII| wise or foolish, just or unjust, virtuous or vicious, or 1522 XLI| most imprudent, nor the unjustest from the justest, nor the 1523 XLI| vice, when any evil man is unjustly condemned by you, since 1524 XL| meddling with things that were unlawful ? There are still among 1525 XLII| drifting, after drinking the unmixed cup of ignorance ? Be done 1526 XXXVII| his trouble useless and unnecessary. I would ask you then to 1527 XXVI| lingered on in the girl unnoticed by her attendants. For he 1528 XXVII| words: " It is then not unreasonable on my part, I think, to 1529 XXV| necessarily be good and unsullied. In any case the demon conjured 1530 XXXV| something which was quite unusual and contrary to his habitual 1531 XX| philosophers, when he was unworthy even to be present at a 1532 XLII| of Destiny and Fate, so upholding conflicting and opposed 1533 I| in answer to them, been upset and exposed beforehand in 1534 XV| Such are the wonderful utterances to which one, whose prescience 1535 XXXV| single prayer, and without uttering a single mysterious word " 1536 V| V~ ~ANOTHER controversionalist, 1537 VI| For the following is a valid example to use as it is 1538 II| tales of Jesus have been vamped up by Peter and Paul and 1539 XXXIX| contradict themselves, of being vapouring braggarts and nothing else, 1540 XI| he came to converse with Vardan the Babylonian king, it 1541 IX| indescribable wisdom." So varied was the education of one 1542 XV| included everything, gives vent; and the king answers them 1543 VI| arranged; and if anyone is so venturesome as to wish to transcend 1544 VI| VI~ ~Do you ask me what I mean 1545 XLII| just or unjust, virtuous or vicious, or charlatan ; let him 1546 XXXI| licentious youth was clearly the victim of an indwelling demon ; 1547 VII| VII~ ~IN what light then, this 1548 VIII| VIII~ ~BUT enough of this. His 1549 XV| unless they had been utterly vile in character, and at the 1550 XXXIX| other than capable of all villainy and meanness ; unless indeed 1551 XLII| foolish, just or unjust, virtuous or vicious, or charlatan ; 1552 XXV| with him in this marvellous vision and interview ? And why, 1553 XL| his hero, although he had visited the greater part of the 1554 XI| in just keeping with his visits to the Arabians were the 1555 XXXI| still bore in herself a vital spark, as the author says, 1556 XLI| why do you keep in your vocabulary at all such a word as vice, 1557 XXIII| was crushed by men, and vomited foam, when all the time 1558 XXIII| as a dog all crushed and vomiting foam, as mad dogs do. And 1559 XXII| his dislocated hip, how he vouchsafed to restore a man's hand 1560 XII| which he accomplished this vow of silence was praiseworthy. 1561 XVIII| and about his periodical voyages abroad, and about his journey 1562 XXXVII| the latter, by refusing to wait, renders all his trouble 1563 XLII| Be done with it at last, wake up and be sober; and, raising 1564 XXII| and of tripods of stone walking about of their own accord 1565 XXIX| on a philosopher, but he walls up all his wealth within 1566 XLI| was she who forced you to wander about the eastern and western 1567 XLI| person. Why then do you go wandering about, preaching the virtues 1568 XXIII| bystanders what the sparrow wanted and intended when it summoned 1569 XXVII| words on his lips : " What war have you with Iarchas or 1570 XXIX| person to the sovereign so warmly, that in consequence of 1571 XII| supposition at a moment's warning, and to forget it almost 1572 XXIII| the plague in Ephesus, and warns the citizens of what is 1573 XXXVII| composition would prove a mere waste of effort. For he imagines 1574 XXXVII| time allowed him by the water-clock.~ ~ 1575 XLI| spent his life upon the waves, and that of necessity, 1576 XLII| are not in our control are weak and servile, restrained 1577 VII| of his posterity. This I ween is how the sages of old 1578 XXXVIII| himself of the suspicion which weighed upon him, he holds the following 1579 XXIX| much concerned for your welfare. Summon them also therefore 1580 VI| ever raise himself into the welkin. In this way then the mortal 1581 II| contrast our own accurate and well-established judgment on each point, 1582 IV| of, with the accurate and well-founded judgment on particular points 1583 XX| as do holy and mysterious wells for those who fill their 1584 XLI| wander about the eastern and western oceans, and along with her 1585 XXVII| divine mechanism before they wheel it out upon the stage. And 1586 X| freshly-slain lioness with her eight whelps by the side of the road 1587 | whence 1588 | whenever 1589 XVII| to her loins, was wholly white in colour, while the rest 1590 | whither 1591 XLI| magician or a murderer and a wicked man and a reprobate, come 1592 XXXIV| after being so acquitted he, wiih curious inopportuneness, 1593 XI| other sources ; and with a wilful affectation of solemnity 1594 XIII| Damis that he was quite willing to allow him and his companions 1595 XXII| to those of lightning and wind kept in jars, and of tripods 1596 VI| its bounds, nor with its wingless body emulate the bird, nor 1597 VI| relaxing the working of their wings, and renouncing the privilege 1598 V| opinion of him. If anyone wishes to class him with any philosopher 1599 XL| circumstance, remarking withal, that "although Empedocles 1600 XXII| restore a man's hand that was withered, and to a blind man gave 1601 XXXV| with him all his life, and witnessing him work miracles by means 1602 XII| pure of intercourse with women.~ ~We can also believe the 1603 IV| teaching being now easily won over by him, while the divine 1604 XXIII| have begun his career of wonder-working; and it was superfluous 1605 XXIV| importance. Thereupon he falls to wondering if there had ever been among 1606 II| beginning and enumerates the" wonders worked by Apollonius, after 1607 IV| capacity one worked more wondrous and numerous miracles than 1608 XXII| after the stars, and that he wore these one by one upon the 1609 VII| is an absurdity that the works of carpenters and builders 1610 XXXIII| change, nor regret at having worn it; but he did it because 1611 XXIX| you will find the fellow worse than I represent him." Surely 1612 XI| Samos, who taught me to worship the gods in this way and 1613 XI| the kind, nor any secret writings, such that we can even suspect 1614 XXIV| against the Trojans for the wrongs which they had committed 1615 X| X~ ~AND after an interval 1616 XI| XI~ ~AND in just keeping with 1617 XII| XII~ ~I HAVE no wish to enquire 1618 XIII| XIII~ ~THESE particulars we have 1619 XIV| XIV~ ~IN the next place I would 1620 XIX| XIX~ ~SUCH are the stories which 1621 XLI| XLI~ ~ALTHOUGH then the limits 1622 XLII| XLII~ ~HOWEVER, the herald of 1623 XV| XV~ ~ON the contrary he is 1624 XVI| XVI~ ~AFTER setting before you 1625 XVII| XVII~ ~To begin with then, on 1626 XVIII| XVIII~ ~AND we are told that Iarchas, 1627 XX| XX~ ~IT was after such a symposium, 1628 XXI| XXI~ ~AFTER this there was general 1629 XXII| XXII~ ~AFTER that Philostratus 1630 XXIII| XXIII~ ~ALL this is contained 1631 XXIV| XXIV ~ ~THE fourth wonder which 1632 XXIX| XXIX~ ~AND to the same Emperor, 1633 XXV| XXV~ ~WHAT then is the reason, 1634 XXVI| XXVI~ ~THE fifth and sixth miracles 1635 XXVII| XXVII~ ~SUCH are the contents 1636 XXVIII| XXVIII~ ~AND a little lower down 1637 XXX| XXX~ ~IN the sixth book our 1638 XXXI| XXXI~ ~THESE then are the achievements 1639 XXXII| XXXII~ ~THERE are a thousand other 1640 XXXIII| XXXIII~ ~HERE then we find him 1641 XXXIV| XXXIV~ ~After this Philostratus 1642 XXXIX| XXXIX~ ~IN the same book we are 1643 XXXV| XXXV~ ~Now in regard to the miracle 1644 XXXVI| XXXVI~ ~MOREOVER we have not got 1645 XXXVII| XXXVII~ ~NEXT this most divine 1646 XXXVIII| XXXVIII~ ~BUT we must not omit to 1647 | ye 1648 IX| he reached his fourteenth year his father took him to Tarsus, 1649 XXVII| my part, I think, to have yielded myself to a philosophy so 1650 XII| region : and that when he was young he not only had the distinguished 1651 | yours 1652 | yourselves 1653 XII| we must needs commend the youthful Apollonius for his good 1654 XLI| rather to Destiny than to Zeus himself. In that case no