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No, no!

Not even those infamous lines about Atlas with the crooked shoulders?

No, no, I tell you.

Nor that foolish and ribald verse about the ape in court dress?

Ha, ha; that came from the church, not from the lecture-hall. You disbelieve it? I tell you it was Hekebolius

Hekebolius!

Yes, Hekebolius, Hekebolius himself, to breed hatred between his enemy and his pupil

[Clenching his fists.] Ah, if it were so!

If that blinded and deceived young man had known us philosophers, he would not have dealt so hardly with us.

Of what are you speaking?