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If you had talked like that, they might have laughed at you, and, if you persisted in worrying them, have tried how you liked water. Ly. Yes; it would be no more than my deserts. Her. Apply this to philosophy. What need to drink the whole cask, when you can judge the quality of the whole from one little taste? Ly. What an adept at evasion you are, Hermotimus! How you slip through one's fingers!
Which do you mean? those who have been by which road, and under whose guidance? It is the old puzzle in a new form; you have only substituted men for measures. Her. How do you mean? Ly. Why, the man who has taken Plato's road and travelled with him will recommend that road; so with Epicurus and the rest; and you will recommend your own. How else, Hermotimus? it must be so. Her. Well, of course.
You wrong me, Hermotimus, when you imply that I put myself above other people, or rank myself at all with those who know; you forget what I said; I never claimed to know the truth better than others, only confessed that I was as ignorant of it as every one else. Her.
Hermotimus, or, as Plutarch names him, Hermodorus of Clazomene, is said to have possessed, like Epimenides, the marvellous power of quitting his body, and returning to it again, as often, and for as long a time as he pleased.
Good morning, Hermotimus; I guess by your book and the pace you are going at that you are on your way to lecture, and a little late.
So, Lycinus, tell Hermotimus from us that his teachers fierce straw targets, and then say they have disposed of armed men; or paint up figures of us, spar at them, and, after a not surprising success, think they have beaten us. But we shall severally quote against them Achilles's words against Hector: They dare not face the nodding of my plume. So say all of them, one after the other.
But when Hermotimus got him with his whole family into his power, he addressed him as follows: "'O thou, who, of all mankind, hast gained thy living by the most infamous acts, what harm had either I, or any of mine, done to thee, or any of thine, that of a man thou hast made me nothing?
And now that I have got to this point, I have reason to fear that I may be suspected of having made the slip on purpose, leading up to this apology. O God of health, only grant me that the quality of my piece may justify the notion that I wanted no more than a peg whereon to hang an essay! Lycinus. Hermotimus Ly.
It is explained how that soul afterwards transmigrated into 'the goldy-locked Euphorbus who was killed, in good fashion, at the siege of old Troy, by the cuckold of Sparta; how it then passed into Hermotimus, 'where no sooner it was missing, but with one Pyrrhus of Delos it learned to go a-fishing; how thence it did enter the Sophist of Greece, Pythagoras. After having been changed into whom,
Well, what am I to plead? will it avail me to say I trusted my friend Hermotimus? I feel sure they will say, We know not this Hermotimus, who he is, nor he us; you had no right to condemn us all, and give judgement by default against us, on the authority of a man who knew only one of the philosophic roads, and even that, perhaps, imperfectly.
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