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 182 ANTONY. tery,* but she had a thousand. Were Antony sei'ious or disposed to mirth, she had at any moment some new de- liglit or charm to meet liis wishes ; at every turn she was upon him, and let him escape her neither by day nor by night. She played at dice with him, drank with him, hunted with him ; and when he exercised in arras, she was there to see. At night she would go rambling with him to disturb and torment people at their doors and windows, dressed like a servantrwoman, for Antony also went in servant's disguise, and from these expeditions he often came home very scurvily answered, and sometimes even beaten severely, though most people guessed who it was. However, the Alexandrians in general liked it all well enough, and joined good humoredly and kindly in his frolic and play, saying they were much obliged to Antony for acting his tragic parts at Rome, and keeping his comedy for them. It would be trilling without end to be particular in his follies, but his fishing must not be forgotten. He went out one day to angle with Cleopatra, and, being so imfortunate as to catch nothing hi the pres- ence of his mistress, he gave secret orders to the fishermen to dive under water, and put fishes that had been already taken upon his hooks ; and these he drew so fast that the Egyptian. perceived it. But, feigning great admiration, she told everybody how dexterous Antony was, and in- vited them next day to come and see him again. So, when a number of them had come on board the fishinsr o boats, as soon as he had let down his hook, one of her ser- The four Flatteries are the four adviser is supplanted by the pur- Counterfeit Arts, which profess to veyor of luxuries; and the p;ym- do good to men's bodies and souls, nastic teacher by the adorner of the and in reality only gratify their person. The four genuine Arts are pleasures. The legislator's place nomothetike, dicanike, iatrike, and is thus usurped bj' the sophist, the jrj/mreas^iX-e ; the four corresponding I'alse reasoner, in deliberative as- Flatteries are sophistike, rhctorike, Sfinblies ; that of the judge by the opsopoiike, and kommotike.
 * See the Gorgias, chapter 19. rhetorician or pleader ; the medical