[75] Legends of the wonderful happenings at his birth were in circulation, and are of the same nature as all such birth-legends of great people.
[76] ἀρρήτῳ τινὶ σοφία ξυνέλαβε.
[77] Sci., than his tutor; namely, the “memory” within him, or his “dæmon.”
[78] This æther was presumably the mind-stuff.
[79] That is to say presumably he was encouraged in his efforts by those unseen helpers of the temple by whom the cures were wrought by means of dreams, and help was given psychically and mesmerically.
[80] “Where are you hurrying? Are you off to see the youth?”
[81] Compare Odyssey, xx. 18.
[82] I am inclined to think, however, that Apollonius was still a youngish man when he set out on his Indian travels, instead of being forty-six, as some suppose. But the difficulties of most of the chronology are insurmountable.
[83] φήσας οὐκ ἀνθρώπων ἑαυτῷ δεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἀνδρῶν.
[84] ἰδιότροπα.