"Her brother, perhaps, to-morrow evening, will tell me what is going on." "The philosopher ?" said the other, with a contemptuous flourish.

"You are a great sage, Serapion, as the people hold; but you often sew with needles too fine for me.

Why, just now, when Caesar is here, and gain and honor be in the streets for such a one as you only to stoop for--why, I say, you should waste precious time on that poring fellow from the Museum, I can not understand." A superior smile parted the Magian's lips; he stepped back into the room, followed by Annianus, and replied: "You know how many who call themselves Magians will crowd round Caesar, and the fame of Sosibius, Hananja, and Kaimis, is not much behind mine.
Each plies his art by his own formulas, though he may call himself a Pythagorean or what not.

None dare claim to belong to any recognized school, since the philosophers of the guild pride themselves on condemning the miracle-mongers.

Now, in his youth, Caracalla went through his courses of philosophy.