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246 am. If you are unsuccessful in your search, return hither to me. What poverty can provide you shall share. Yet, should you hereafter be restored to your throne, do not forget or despise the coarse thread-bare cloak of the poor fisherman." (56) "Fear not," said Apollonius, "should I prove ungrateful may I be ship-wrecked again, nor find in my extremity a man like yourself." As he spoke, the fisherman pointed out the way to the city gates, which Apollonius shortly entered.

Whilst he reflected upon the path he should pursue, he beheld a naked boy running along the street, having his head anointed with oil, and bound with a napkin (57). The youth lustily vociferated, "Hear, hear; pilgrims or slaves; whosoever would be washed, let him haste to the gymnasium." Apollonius, according to the proclamation, entered the bath, and pulling off his cloak, used the oil. Whilst he was doing this, he cast his eyes around to discover some one of an equality with himself; and at last Altistrates, king of all that