That is why they have brought Philostratus.

I wonder if the conspiracy is connected in any way with Barine, whose husband--unfortunately for her--he was before he cast her off." "Cast her off!" exclaimed Gorgias wrathfully.

"How that sounds! True, he did it, but to persuade him the poor woman sacrificed half the fortune her father had earned by his brush.

You know as well as I that life with that scoundrel would be unbearable." "Very true," replied Dion quietly.

"But as all Alexandria melted into admiration after her singing of the 'yalemos' at the Adonis festival, she no longer needed her contemptible consort." "How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless ?" "That the light she sheds may not dazzle your eyes.