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

Of Kings and Riches ...

"It would be a real miracle, O king, if you went dry-shod through a river as deep as this and as unfordable."

And when he was shown the walls of Ecbatana, and was told that they were the dwelling-place of gods, he remarked:

They are not the dwelling place of gods at all, and I am not sure that they are of real men either; for, O king, the inhabitants of the city of Lacedaemon do not dwell within walls, and have never fortified their city."

Moreover, on one occasion the king had decided a suit for some villages and was boasting to Apollonius of how he had listened to the one suit for two whole days.

"Well," said the other, "you took a mighty long time, anyhow, to find out what was just."

And when the revenues from the subject country came in on once occasion in great quantities at once, the king opened his treasurey and showed his wealth to the sage, to induce him to fall in love will wealth; but he admired nothing that he saw and said:

"This, for you, O king, represents wealth, but to me it is mere chaff."

"How, then," said the other, "and in what manner can I best make use of it?"

"By spending it," he said, "for you are king."

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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} Of Kings and Riches ...
Web Publication by Mountain Man Graphics, Australia in the Southern Spring of 1995