Damis—"Yes, at the theatre, in broad daylight, on the fourteenth of the Kalends of October, he suddenly exclaimed: 'They are murdering Cæsar!' and he added, every now and then, 'He rolls on the ground! Oh! how he struggles! He gets up again; he attempts to fly; the gates are shut. Ah! it is finished. He is dead!' And that very day, in fact, Titus Flavius Domitianus was assassinated, as you are aware."
Antony—"Without the aid of the Devil ... No doubt ..."
Apollonius—"He wished to put me to death, this Domitian. Damis fled by my direction, and I remained alone in my prison."
Damis—"It was a terrible bit of daring, I must confess!"
Apollonius—"About the fifth hour, the soldiers led me to the tribunal. I had my speech quite ready, which I kept under my cloak."
Damis—"The rest of us were on the bank of Puzzoli! We saw you die; we wept; when, towards the sixth hour, all at once, you appeared, and said to us, 'It is I.'"
Antony, aside—"Just like Him!"
Damis, very loudly—"Absolutely!"
Antony—"Oh, no! you are lying, are you not? You are lying!"
Apollonius—"He came down from Heaven—I ascend there, thanks to my virtue, which has raised me even to the height of the Most High!"