But I can not be persuaded against the evidence of my own eyes, and they light on many good and pleasant things.

If only you had been with us to the Nekropolis yesterday! Every man was honoring the gods after his own manner.

Some, indeed, were grave enough; still, cheerfulness won the day among the people.

Most of them were full of the god.

I myself, who generally live so quietly, was infected as the mystics came back from Eleusis, and we joined their ranks." "'Till the spy Zminis spoiled your happiness and imperiled your brother's life for a careless speech." "Very true!" "And what your brother heedlessly proclaimed," Andreas went on, with flashing eyes, "the very sparrows twitter on the house-tops.