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διαλέγεσθαι μὲν δὴ τὸν Ἀπολλώνιον πλείω τοιαῦτα, ἑαυτὸν δὲ ὁ Δάμις ἀπορεῖν μὲν ὑπὲρ τῶν παρόντων φησί, λύσιν δὲ αὐτῶν ὁρᾶν οὐδεμίαν, πλὴν ὅσαι παρὰ τῶν θεῶν εὐξαμένοις τισὶ κἀκ πολλῷ χαλεπωτέρων ἦλθον, ὀλίγον δὲ πρὸ μεσημβρίας ‘ὦ Τυανεῦ,’ φάναι, σφόδρα γὰρ δὴ χαίρειν αὐτὸν τῇ προσρήσει ‘τί πεισόμεθα;’ ‘ὅ γε ἐπάθομεν,’ ἔφη ‘πέρα δ᾽ οὐδέν, οὐδὲ ἀποκτενεῖ ἡμᾶς οὐδείς.’ ‘καὶ τίς’ εἶπεν ‘οὕτως ἄτρωτος; λυθήσῃ δὲ πότε;’ ‘τὸ μὲν ἐπὶ τῷ δικάσαντι’ ἔφη ‘τήμερον, τὸ δὲ ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ ἄρτι.’ καὶ εἰπὼν ταῦτα ἐξήγαγε τὸ σκέλος τοῦ δεσμοῦ καὶ πρὸς τὸν Δάμιν ἔφη ‘ἐπίδειξιν πεποίημαί σοι τῆς ἐλευθερίας τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ καὶ θάρρει.’ τότε πρῶτον ὁ Δάμις φησὶν ἀκριβῶς ξυνεῖναι τῆς Ἀπολλωνίου φύσεως, ὅτι θεία τε εἴη καὶ κρείττων ἀνθρώπου, μὴ γὰρ θύσαντα, πῶς γὰρ ἐν δεσμωτηρίῳ; μηδ᾽ εὐξάμενόν τι, μηδὲ εἰπόντα καταγελάσαι τοῦ δεσμοῦ καὶ ἐναρμόσαντα αὖ τὸ σκέλος τὰ τοῦ δεδεμένου πράττειν.
Flavii Philostrati Opera, Vol 1. Philostratus the Athenian. Carl Ludwig Kayser. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1870. Keyboarding.
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