All were present, and he who is writing these things was present; but Justus, standing over it, and fixing the gaze of his eyes (for the victim lay in whatever position), asked those present: "What does the position of the fallen victim mean?" At this, the flatterers were all puffed up, marveling that he was also a diviner from positions, and they conceded that he alone 23.4.5 knew these things; but the more serious ones, stroking their beards with their fingertips and putting on gloomy expressions, and shaking their heads with a certain gravity and deliberation, were gazing 23.4.6 at what lay before them, each saying something different, but Justus, after he had with difficulty suppressed his laughter, turned to Chrysanthius and shouted, "And what do you say, O most reverend one?" And Chrysanthius, not at all disturbed, said that he condemned them all. 23.4.7 "But if you wish me too," he said, "to say something about these things, tell me first what the method of divination is, if indeed you understand the methods of divination, and of what sort it is, and what 23.4.8 the inquiry is, and according to what method it has been asked. And if you would say these things, I could say in what way the phenomenon bears upon the future. But before you say these things, it is vulgar in response to your question, when the gods are signifying the future, for me to speak both about the question and about the future, connecting what is to be 23.4.9 with what has happened; for in this way there would be two questions. But no one asks about two or more things at the same time; for what is different in the defined terms does not have one answer." At that Justus cried out as if learning things he had not known before, and for the rest of his time he did not cease 23.4.10 associating with him in private and drawing from that spring. And if any others in those times of those renowned for wisdom came to have discussions with Chrysanthius because of his fame, convinced that they were 23.4.11 far from that man's skill, they went away. And Hellespontius of Galatia also experienced this, a man excellent in all things, and if Chrysanthius had not existed, he would have appeared the first of all. 23.4.12 For this man was such a lover of wisdom that he almost traversed even the uninhabited world, searching if he might anywhere happen upon someone who knew more. And having become full of fine deeds and words, he also came to ancient Sardis for the company of Chrysanthius. But these things later. 23.5.1 Chrysanthius also had a son, named after the teacher he had had at Pergamum (we have previously mentioned Aedesius), and the boy from childhood was a winged thing toward every virtue, and he did not partake of the one horse, as Plato says, nor was his faculty of understanding weighed down, but being intense and exceedingly sharp in his studies, and most steadfast in his service of the gods, he so far escaped the human condition that, though a man, he was in danger 23.5.2 of being entirely soul. At any rate his body in its movements was so light, that it would be incredible to write, even very 23.5.3 poetically, to what a height he was borne aloft. And his intimacy with the divine was so unlabored and easy that it was enough to place the garland on his head and, looking up at the sun, to utter oracles, and these unerring, and composed in the most beautiful form of inspired utterance; 23.5.4 and yet he knew neither meter, nor was he strong in the science of grammar, 23.5.5 but god was everything to him. But falling ill, not at all in accordance with his destined life, he passed away at about twenty years of age, and his father then too showed that he was a philosopher. 23.5.6 For either the magnitude of the misfortune moved him to a state of passionlessness, or, rejoicing with his son at his release, he remained unmoved. And his mother, too, looking to her husband, overcame her womanly nature, checking her lamentations in keeping with the dignity of the suffering. 23.6.1 When these things had so passed, Chrysanthius was engaged in his usual activities; and when many great public and common affairs fell upon him, which all

παρῆσαν μὲν ἅπαντες, καὶ ὁ ταῦτα γράφων παρῆν· ὁ δὲ Ἰοῦστος ἐπιστήσας, καὶ τὴν τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν στάσιν ἐπερείσας (ἔκειτο δὲ τὸ ἱερεῖον ἐν ᾧ δήποτε τῷ σχήματι), καὶ τοὺς παρόντας ἀνηρώτα· "τί βούλεται τὸ σχῆμα τοῦ πτώματος;" ἔνθα οἱ μὲν κόλακες παρεφρύγοντο θαυμάζοντες, ὅτι καὶ ἀπὸ σχημάτων ἐστὶ μαντικός, καὶ μόνῳ παρεχώρουν ἐκείνῳ 23.4.5 ταῦτα εἰδέναι· οἱ δὲ σεμνότεροι τὰς ὑπήνας καταψήσαντες ἄκροις τοῖς δακτύλοις, καὶ τὰ πρόσωπα διαστυγνάσαντες, τάς τε κεφαλὰς βαρύ τι καὶ ἠρεμαῖον ἐπισείοντες, παρεθεώ23.4.6 ρουν ἐς τὸ προκείμενον, ἄλλος ἄλλο λέγοντες, ὁ δὲ Ἰοῦστος, ὡς μόλις τὸν γέλωτα ἀνῆκεν, ἐπιστρέψας εἰς τὸν Χρυσάνθιον "σὺ δὲ τί φῄς," ἐβόησεν, "ὦ πρεσβύτατε;" καὶ ὁ Χρυσάνθιος οὐδὲν διαταραχθείς, πάντων ἔφησε καταγινώ23.4.7 σκειν· "ἀλλ' εἴ τι βούλει κἀμέ," ἔφη "περὶ τούτων εἰπεῖν, τίς μὲν ὁ τρόπος τῆς μαντείας, εἴ γε τοὺς μαντικοὺς τρόπους ἐπίστασαι, εἰπὲ τὸ πρότερον, καὶ ποίου τινὸς εἴδους, τίς 23.4.8 δὲ ἡ πεῦσις, καὶ κατὰ τίνα μέθοδον ἐπηρώτηται. καὶ εἰ ταῦτα λέγοις, εἴποιμ' ἂν ὅπῃ τὸ φαινόμενον εἰς τὸ μέλλον φέρει. πρὶν δὲ ταῦτα λέγειν, βάναυσόν ἐστι πρὸς τὴν σὴν ἐρώτησιν, σημαινόντων τὸ μέλλον τῶν θεῶν, ἐμὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐρωτήσεως καὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος λέγειν, συνάπτοντα τῷ 23.4.9 γεγονότι τὸ ἐσόμενον· δύο γὰρ οὕτως ἂν γίνεσθαι τὰς ἐρωτήσεις. περὶ δύο δὲ ἢ πλειόνων οὐδεὶς ἐρωτᾷ κατὰ ταὐτόν· τὸ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ὡρισμένοις διάφορον ἕνα λόγον οὐκ ἔχει." ἐνταῦθα Ἰοῦστος ἀνέκραγεν ὡς μανθάνων ὅσα μὴ πρότερον ἠπίστατο, καὶ τοῦ λοιποῦ γε οὐκ ἐπαύσατο 23.4.10 συνὼν ἰδίᾳ καὶ τῆς πηγῆς ἀρυόμενος. καὶ εἴ τινες ἕτεροι κατ' ἐκείνους τοὺς χρόνους τῶν ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ περιβοήτων Χρυσανθίῳ κατὰ κλέος ἦλθον εἰς λόγους, πεισθέντες ὅτι 23.4.11 πόρρω τῆς δεινότητος ἐκείνης εἰσίν, ἀπιόντες ᾤχοντο. τοῦτο δὲ καὶ Ἑλλησπόντιος ὁ ἐκ Γαλατίας ἔπαθεν, ἀνὴρ διὰ πάντα ἄριστος, καὶ εἰ μὴ Χρυσάνθιος ἦν, πρῶτος ἁπάντων 23.4.12 φανείς. σοφίας μὲν γὰρ ἐραστὴς οὗτος ὁ ἀνὴρ ἐς τοσόνδε ἐγένετο, ὥστε ἐπῆλθε μικροῦ καὶ τὴν ἀοίκητον, μαστεύων εἴ πού τινι περιτύχοι πλέον εἰδότι· καλῶν δὲ ἔργων καὶ λόγων ἀνάπλεως γενόμενος, καὶ εἰς τὰς παλαιὰς Σάρδεις ἀφίκετο διὰ τὴν Χρυσανθίου συνουσίαν. ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὕστερον. 23.5.1 Ἐγένετο δὲ Χρυσανθίῳ καὶ παῖς ἐπώνυμος τῷ κατὰ τὸ Πέργαμον αὐτῷ γενομένῳ διδασκάλῳ (μεμνήμεθα δὲ πρότερον Αἰδεσίου), καὶ ἦν ὁ παῖς ἐκ παιδὸς ἐπτερωμένον τι χρῆμα πρὸς ἅπασαν ἀρετήν, καὶ τῶν ἵππων οὐ μετεῖχε θατέρου, ᾗ φησιν ὁ Πλάτων, οὐδὲ ἔβριθε τὸ κατανοοῦν αὐτῷ, ἀλλὰ πρός τε μαθήματα σφοδρὸς καὶ ἄγαν ὀξὺς γενόμενος, καὶ πρὸς θεῶν θεραπείαν διαρκέστατος, ἐς τοσόνδε διέφευγε τὸ ἀνθρώπινον, ὥστε ἄνθρωπος ὢν ἐκινδύνευεν 23.5.2 ὅλος εἶναι ψυχή. τὸ γοῦν σῶμα ἐν ταῖς κινήσεσιν οὕτως αὐτοῦ κοῦφον ἦν, ὥστε ἦν ἀπίθανον γράφειν, καὶ μάλα 23.5.3 ποιητικῶς, εἰς ὅσον ὕψος ἐφέρετο μετάρσιος. ἡ δὲ πρὸς τὸ θεῖον οἰκειότης οὕτως ἦν ἀπραγμάτευτος καὶ εὔκολος, ὥστε ἐξήρκει τὸν στέφανον ἐπιθεῖναι τῇ κεφαλῇ, καὶ πρὸς τὸν ἥλιον ἀναβλέποντα χρησμοὺς ἐκφέρειν, καὶ τούτους ἀψευδεῖς, καὶ πρὸς τὸ κάλλιστον εἶδος ἐνθέου πνεύματος γεγραμ23.5.4 μένους· καί τοί γε οὔτε μέτρον ἠπίστατο, οὔτε εἰς γραμματι23.5.5 κὴν ἐπιστήμην ἔρρωτο, ἀλλὰ θεὸς ἅπαντα ἦν αὐτῷ. νοσήσας δὲ οὐδαμῶς κατὰ τὸν ὡρισμένον βίον, ἀμφὶ τὰ εἴκοσιν ἔτη μετήλλαξεν, ὁ δὲ πατὴρ καὶ τότε διέδειξεν φιλόσοφος 23.5.6 ὤν· ἢ γὰρ τὸ μέγεθος τῆς συμφορᾶς εἰς ἀπάθειαν αὐτὸν μετέστησεν, ἢ τῷ παιδὶ συγχαίρων τῆς λήξεως, ἔμεινεν ἄτρεπτος· καὶ ἡ μήτηρ δέ, πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα ὁρῶσα, τὴν γυναικείαν ὑπερήνεγκε φύσιν, πρὸς τὴν ἀξίαν τοῦ πάθους ὀλοφύρσεις ἐκλύσασα. 23.6.1 Τούτων δὲ οὕτω κεχωρηκότων, ὁ Χρυσάνθιος ἦν ἐν τοῖς συνήθεσιν· καὶ πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ἐμπιπτόντων δημοσίων καὶ κοινῶν πραγμάτων, ἃ τὰς ἁπάντων