Here he had lost a little ground.
Minos, seizing the advantage, pushed it.
"You have said that a converted Jew has not a nice smell."
"Yes. But I added that a Christian who becomes a Jew has a nasty one."
Minos lost his eyes over the accusing documents.
"You have affirmed and propagated things which are impossible. You have said that Elien had seen an elephant write sentences."
"Nay, very reverend gentleman! I simply said that Oppian had heard a hippopotamus discuss a philosophical problem."
"You have declared that it is not true that a dish made of beech-wood will become covered of itself with all the viands that one can desire."
"I said, that if it has this virtue, it must be that you received it from the devil."
"That I received it!"