Antony—"No—not I! I remain!"
Apollonius—"Do you wish me to show you the plant Balis, which resuscitates the dead?"
Damis—"Ask him rather for the bloodstone, which attracts silver, iron and bronze!"
Antony—"Oh! how sick I feel! how sick I feel!"
Damis—"You shall understand the voices of all creatures, the roarings, the cooings!"
Apollonius—"I will make you mount the unicorns, the dragons, and the dolphins!"
Antony, weeps—"Oh! oh! oh!"
Apollonius—"You shall know the demons who dwell in the caverns, those who speak in the woods, those who move about in the waves, those who drive the clouds."
Damis—"Fasten your girdle! tie your sandals!"
Apollonius—"I will explain to you the reasons for the shapes of divinities; why it is that Apollo is upright, Jupiter sitting down, Venus black at Corinth, square at Athens, conical at Paphos."