HIPPOSIACHUS.
Pythagoras stole that and all his other opinions from Asia and Egypt. The transmigration of the soul and the vegetable diet are derived from India. I met a Brachman in Sogdiana—
CALLICLES.
All nonsense!
CHARICLEA.
What think you, Alcibiades?
ALCIBIADES.
I think that, if the doctrine be true, your spirit will be transfused into one of the doves who carry (1) ambrosia to the gods or verses to the mistresses of poets. Do you remember Anacreon’s lines? How should you like such an office?
(1) Homer’s Odyssey, xii. 63.