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He was said to have passed twenty-three years of his life underground in the tombs, studying occult sciences under the instruction of Isis herself. 'You must mean the divine Pancrates, my teacher, exclaimed Arignotus; 'tall, clean-shaven, snub-nosed, protruding lips, rather thin in the legs; dresses entirely in linen, has a thoughtful expression, and speaks Greek with a slight accent? 'Yes, it was Pancrates himself.
'We were only trying, he said, 'to convince this man of adamant that there are such things as supernatural beings and ghosts, and that the spirits of the dead walk the earth and manifest themselves to whomsoever they will. Moved by the august presence of Arignotus, I blushed, and hung my head.
Eucrates replied that he was better. 'And what, Arignotus next asked, 'is the subject of your learned conversation? I overheard your voices as I came in, and doubt not that your time will prove to have been profitably employed. Eucrates pointed to me.
However, I was not frightened by his long hair, nor by his reputation. 'Dear, dear! I exclaimed, 'so Arignotus, the sole mainstay of Truth, is as bad as the rest of them, as full of windy imaginings!
We took the skeleton up, and placed it in a grave; and from that day to this the house has never been troubled with apparitions. After such a story as this-coming as it did from Arignotus, who was generally looked up to as a man of inspired wisdom my incredulous attitude towards the supernatural was loudly condemned on all hands.
Lucian, in his "Liars," puts this opinion into the mouth of Arignotus. The theory by which Lucretius seeks to explain apparitions, though materialistic, seems to allow some influence also to the working of imagination.
If that is what he means, there is great justice in his contention. 'No, no, says Dinomachus, 'he maintains that there is absolutely no such thing as an apparition. 'What is this I hear? asked Arignotus, scowling upon me; 'you deny the existence of the supernatural, when there is scarcely a man who has not seen some evidence of it? 'Therein lies my exculpation, I replied: 'I do not believe in the supernatural, because, unlike the rest of mankind, I do not see it: if I saw, I should doubtless believe, just as you all do. 'Well, said he, 'next time you are in Corinth, ask for the house of Eubatides, near the Craneum; and when you have found it, go up to Tibius the door-keeper, and tell him you would like to see the spot on which Arignotus the Pythagorean unearthed the demon, whose expulsion rendered the house habitable again. 'What was that about, Arignotus? asked Eucrates.
Arignotus the Pythagorean now came in the 'divine' Arignotus, as he is called; the philosopher of the long hair and the solemn countenance, you know, of whose wisdom we hear so much. I breathed again when I saw him. 'Ah! thought I, 'the very man we want! here is the axe to hew their lies asunder. The sage will soon pull them up when he hears their cock-and-bull stories.
Our treasure proves to be but ashes. 'Now look here, Tychiades, said Arignotus, 'you will not believe me, nor Dinomachus, nor Cleodemus here, nor yet Eucrates: we shall be glad to know who is your great authority on the other side, who is to outweigh us all? 'No less a person, I replied, 'than the sage of Abdera, the wondrous Democritus himself.
From Aeish, man, and caleph, dog, comes Aescaleph, the man-dog, or Aesculapius. This image was the work of Thrasymedes, the son of Arignotus, a native of Paros.
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