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52 more like the hectorings of a bully. He is the Don Quixote of religious and moral perfection. Damis might well be called his Sancho Panza; for the latter, notwithstanding the great pleasure he experiences in following about this brave knight-errant of truth, as though he were his shadow, is especially remarkable for the good common sense of his replies to some of his master’s sublime theories, and also for the exigencies of an excellent appetite. When Apollonius wants to deliver himself of some particularly high-flown sentiment, he usually propounds to Damis some knotty point for his solution; Damis gives an absurd reply, which furnishes our incomparable philosopher with an opportunity to exhibit his overwhelming superiority, and Damis, who is apparently a man of excellent temper and spirits, laughs at his own folly. In his longer discourses, Apollonius manifests an intolerable pedantry, and so confirmed is his habit of treating every subject as though he were delivering a rhetorical lecture upon it, that he more frequently seems to be listening to his own talking than to be attending to his