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"Show me the stone it is one of the largest and finest; you may keep it." When an hour later, Verus quitted the hall with the prefect, Titianus said: "You have done me a service cousin, without knowing it. Now can you contrive that Ptolemaeus and Favorinus shall go with Apollonius to meet the Emperor at Pelusium?" "Nothing easier" was the answer.
"Still you have recognized the phenomenon, but you disapprove of Favorinus' explanation of it?" "Yes, for I have met men and things as old acquaintances which never saw the light till long after I was born.
Florus agreed with Favorinus on the whole, and declared that Rome must be freed from the intellectual influence of Athens; but Favorinus did not admit this; he opined that it was very difficult for any one who had left youth behind him, to learn anything new, thus referring, with light irony, to the famous work in which Florus had attempted to divide the history of Rome into four periods, corresponding to the ages of man, but had left out old age, and had treated only of childhood, youth, and manhood.
"I can easily relieve you of the company of Favorinus and Ptolemaeus; send them to meet the Emperor." "To what end?" "To entertain him." "He has his plaything with him," said Sabina, and her thin lips curled with an expression of bitter contempt. "His artistic eye delights in the beauty of Antinous, which is celebrated, but which it has not yet been my privilege to see."
"Send some interesting people say the astronomer Ptolemaeus, and Favorinus, the sophist, who await him here to meet him at Pelusium. They will find some way of detaining him there." "Not a bad idea! We will see. But who can reckon on the Empress's moods? At any rate, consider that you have only eight days to dispose of." "Good." "Where do you hope to be able to lodge Hadrian?"
Over there sits Favorinus, the sophist; I dare say he is proving to Ptolemaeus that the stars are mere specks of blood in our eyes, which we choose to believe are in the sky. Florus, the historian, is taking note of this weighty discussion; Pancrates, the poet, is celebrating the great thoughts of the philosopher.
"He is my brother," repeated Favorinus, "and as for his eyes, I have seen them flash by Hercules! like the radiant sun, or merry twinkling stars! And his mouth! I know him well! He is my brother, and I will wager that while he condescended it is too comical condescended to dispute with you with you, there was a sly smile at each corner of his mouth so look now like this he smiled."
And Favorinus, who was a remarkably sensible man, and came from Provence the male inhabitants of which district have always valued themselves on their knowledge of love and ladies calls this said stata forma the beauty of wives, the uxorial beauty. Ennius says that women of a stata forma are almost always safe and modest.
"I have felt something like that," said Antinous. "Can our souls have ever lived in other bodies, and sometimes recall the impressions made in that former existence? "Favorinus once told me that some great philosopher, Plato, I think, asserts that before we are born our souls are wafted about in the firmament that they may contemplate the earth on which they are destined subsequently to dwell.
"Show me the stone it is one of the largest and finest; you may keep it." When an hour later, Verus quitted the hall with the prefect, Titianus said: "You have done me a service cousin, without knowing it. Now can you contrive that Ptolemaeus and Favorinus shall go with Apollonius to meet the Emperor at Pelusium?" "Nothing easier" was the answer.
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