"The Buried Classic" from Ancient Greece, and the roots of the Western World .... The Life of Apollonius of Tyana Philostratus {220 AD} The Tax Collector at the BorderPost ...
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The Tax Registrar at the Mesopotamian Border ...

And as they fared on into Mesopotamia, the tax-gatherer who presided over the Bridge (Zeugma) led them into the registry and asked them what they were taking out of the country with them.

And Apollonius replied:

"I am taking with me temperance, justice, virtue, continence, valour, discipline."

And in this way he strung together a number of feminine nouns or names.

The other, already scenting his own perquisites, said:

"You must then write down in the register these female slaves."

Apollonius answered:

"Impossible, for they are not female slaves that I am taking out with me, but ladies of quality."

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"The Buried Classic" from Ancient Greece, and the roots of the Western World .... The Life of Apollonius of Tyana Philostratus {220 AD} The Tax Collector at the BorderPost ...
Web Publication by Mountain Man Graphics, Australia in the Southern Spring of 1995