"Yes," replied Ursus.
"By what right?"
"I am a philosopher."
"That gives no right."
"I am also a mountebank," said Ursus.
"That is a different thing."
Ursus breathed again, but with humility.
Minos resumed,—
"As a mountebank, you may speak; as a philosopher, you must keep silence."
"I will try," said Ursus.