"He to whom Phoebus Apollo appears may always expect some good to follow.

And yesterday--a happy omen, too--I overheard by chance a young Greek girl, who believed herself unobserved, who of her own prompting fervently entreated Asklepios to heal you.

Nay, she collected all the coins in her little purse, and had a goat and a cock sacrificed in your behalf." "And you expect me to believe that!" said Caracalla, with a scornful laugh.
But Philostratus eagerly replied: "It is the pure truth.

I went to the little temple because it was said that Apollonius had left some documents there.

Every word from his pen is, as you know, of value to me in writing his history.