ANTHONY. "How! does he also cast out devils?"
APOLLONIUS. "At Tarentum they were carrying the dead body of a young girl to the funeral pyre."
DAMIS. "The Master touched her lips; and she arose and called her mother."
APOLLONIUS. "I predicted to Vespasian his accession to power."
ANTHONY. "What! he foretells the future!"
APOLLONIUS. "It was when I was at table with him, at the waters of Baia ..."
ANTHONY. "Excuse me, strangers--it is very late ..."
DAMIS. "At Corinth there was a young man called Menippus ..."
APOLLONIUS. "A dog came in, bearing a severed hand in his mouth."
DAMIS. "One evening, in one of the suburbs, he met a woman."
APOLLONIUS. "He wandered in a bewildered way around the couches ..."
APOLLONIUS. "They sought to drive him out."
DAMIS. "So Menippus went with her to her house; they loved one another."
APOLLONIUS. "And gently beating the mosaic pavement with his tail, he laid the severed hand upon the knees of Flavius."
DAMIS. "But next morning, during the lessons in the school, Menippus was pale."
"Still continuing! Ah! then let them continue till they be weary, inasmuch as there is no ..."
DAMIS. "The Master said to him: 'O beautiful youth, thou dost caress a serpent; by a serpent thou art caressed! And when shall be the nuptials?' We all went to the wedding."
ANTHONY. "Assuredly I am doing wrong, to hearken to such a story!"
DAMIS. "Servants were hurrying to and fro in the vestibule; doors were opening; nevertheless there was no sound made either by the fall of the footsteps nor the closing of the doors. The Master placed himself beside Menippus. And the bride forthwith became angered against the philosophers. But the vessels of gold, the cupbearers, the cooks, the panthers disappeared; the roof receded and vanished into air; the walls crumbled down; and Apollonius stood alone with the woman at his feet, all in tears. She was a vampire who satisfied the beautiful young men in order to devour their flesh, for nothing is more desirable for such phantoms than the blood of amorous youths."
APOLLONIUS. "If thou shouldst desire to learn the art ..."
ANTHONY. "I do not wish to learn anything!"
APOLLONIUS. "The same evening that we arrived at the gates of Rome ..."
ANTHONY. "Oh! yes!--speak to me rather of the City of Popes!"