Diophantus the asrologer said that Hermogenes the physician had only nine months to live; and he laughing replied, "what Cronus may do in nine months, do you consider; but I can make short work with you." He spoke, and reaching out, just touched him, and Diophantus, while forbidding another to hope, gasped out his own life.
XXIX A DEADLY DREAM LUCILIUS
Diophantus, having seen Hermogenes the physician in sleep, never awoke again, though he wore an amulet.
XXX SIMON THE OCULIST NICARCHUS
If you have an enemy, Dionysius, call not down upon him Isis nor Harpocrates, nor whatever god strikes men blind, but Simon; and you will know what God and what Simon can do.
XXXI SCIENTIFIC SURGERY NICARCHUS
Agclaus killed Acestorides while operating; for, "Poor man," he said, "he would have been lame for life."
XXXII THE WISE PROPHET LUCILIUS
All the astrologers as from one mouth prophesied to my father that his brother would reach a great old age; Hermocleides alone said he was fated to die early; and he said so, when we were mourning over his corpse in-doors.