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Rh ," said Apollonius, "I will shew you much that you know not. Yet I am astonished that one so young should be endowed with wit so keen and penetrating. The tree inclosing a host, and passing through various ways without a trace, is a ship."

"A person passes through circumferences and temples, without injury. There is a great heat in the centre which no one removes. The house is not uncovered, but it suits a naked inhabitant. If you would allay pain you must enter into fire."

"I would enter then into a bath, where fire is introduced by means of round tables . The covered house, suits a naked inhabitant; and he who is naked in this situation will perspire ."