elves by flinging arrows under the feet of a child who is dancing.
But I do not approve ..."

_Apollonius_--"When I was ready to depart, the King gave me a parasol,
and said to me: 'I have, on the Indus, a stud of white camels. When you
do not want them any longer, blow into their ears, and they will
return.' We proceeded along the river, walking in the night by the
gleaming of the glow-worms, who emitted their radiance through the
bamboos. The slave whistled an air to keep off the serpents; and our
camels bent the reins while passing under the trees, as if under doors
that were too low. One day, a black child, who held in his hand a
caduceus of gold, conducted us to the College of Sages. Iarchas, their
chief, spoke to me of my ancestors, of all my thoughts, of all my
actions, and all my existences. He had been the river Indus, and he
recalled to my mind that I had conducted the boats on the Nile in the
time of King Sesostris."

_Damis_--"As for me, they told me nothing, so that I do not know what I
was."

_Antony_--"They have the unsubstantial air of shadows."

_Apollonius_--"We met on the seashore the cynocephali, glutted with
milk, who were returning from their expedition in the Island of
Taprobane. The tepid waves pushed white pearls before us. The amber
cracked under our footsteps. Whales' skeletons were bleaching in the
crevices of the cliffs. In short, the earth grew more contracted than a
sandal;--and, after casting towards the sun drops from the ocean, we
turned to the right to go back. We returned through the region of the
Aromatae, through the country of the Gangaridae, the promontory of
Comaria, the land of the Sachalitae, of the Aramitae, and the Homeritae;
then across the Cassanian mountains, the Red Sea, and the Island of
Topazes, we penetrated into Ethiopia, through the kingdom of the
Pygmaei."

_Antony_, aside--"How large the earth is!"

_Damis_--"And when we got home again, all those whom we had known in
former days were dead."

Antony hangs his head. Silence.

_Apollonius_ goes on:

"Then they began talking about me in the world. The plague ravaged
Ephesus; I made them stone an old mendicant."

_Damis_--"And the plague was gone!"

_Antony_--"What! He banishes diseases?"

_Apollonius_--"At Cnidus, I cured the lover of Venus."

_Damis_--"Yes, a madman, who had even promised to marry her. To love a
woman is bad enough; but a statue--what idiocy! The Master placed his
hand on this man's