The Life of Appollonius Of Tyana by Flavius Philostratus

Author:Flavius Philostratus [Philostratus, Flavius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, History, Ancient & Classical, Classics, Non-Fiction
ISBN: No ISBN
Publisher: The Reading Room
Published: 2011-09-05T11:46:44+00:00

[§12] That he was enabled to make such forecasts by some divine impulse, and that it is no sound inference to infer, as some people do, that our hero was a wizard, is clear from what I have already said. But let us consider these facts also: wizards, whom for my part I reckon to be the most unfortunate of mankind, claim to alter the course of destiny, by having recourse either to the torture of lost spirits or to barbaric sacrifices, or to certain incantations or anointings; and many of them when accused of such practices have admitted that they were adepts in such practices. But Apollonius submitted himself to the decrees of the Fates, and only foretold that things must come to pass; and his foreknowledge was gained not by wizardry, but from what the gods revealed to him.

And when among the Indians he beheld their tripods and their dumb waiters and other automata, which I described as entering the room on their own accord, he did not ask how they were contrived, nor did he ask to be informed; he only praised them, but did not aspire to imitate them.

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