70. All these marvels thou dost not respect, but dost contemn, thou that admirest the funeral pyre of Hercules, the result of his misfortunes and evil doings for women's sake: and that butchery of Pelops for the sake of hospitality, or of piety, in consequence whereof the descendants of Pelops were marked by their shoulders and the piece of ivory; and the castrations of Phrygians, who are fascinated by means of the pipe, and are abused after the piping; and those in the rites of King Mithras, the well-deserved or mystical brandings; and the sacrifice of strangers at Tauri, and the sacrifice of the royal maid before the expedition to Troy; and the blood of Menaeceas shed for Thebes, and that of the daughters of Scedasus for Leuctra; and the Laconian youths lacerated with scourges, and their blood upon the altar so delightful to the pure and virgin goddess; thou that extollest the hemlock of Socrates, and the leg of Epictetus, and the death of Anaxarchus----persons whose philosophy was more the result of compulsion than of choice; and the leap of Cleombrotus the Ambraciote, brought about by the treatise on souls; and Pythagoras' prohibition concerning beans, and Theano's contempt of death, and that of I know not how many of those initiated into her own rites, or following the same philosophy.

Οʹ. Ταῦτα οὐ σέβεις, ἀλλ' ἀτιμάζεις: ὁ τὴν Ἡρακλέους θαυμάζων πυρὰν τὴν ἐξ ἀτυχήματος, καὶ τῶν περὶ γυναῖκας ἀδικημάτων: καὶ τὴν Πέλοπος κρεουργίαν, τὴν φιλόξενον, ἢ φιλόθεον, ἐξ ἧς ἐπίσημοι Πελοπίδαι παρὰ τῶν ὤμων καὶ τοῦ ἐλέφαντος: καὶ τὰς Φρυγῶν ἐκτομὰς, τῶν ὑπ' αὐλοῦ κηλουμένων, καὶ μετὰ τὸν αὐλὸν ὑβριζομένων: καὶ τὰς ἐν Μίθρου βασάνους καὶ καύσεις ἐνδίκους τὰς μυστικάς: καὶ τὴν ἐν Ταύροις ξενοκτονίαν, καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ Τροίας θυσίαν τῆς βασιλικῆς κόρης: καὶ τὸ Μενοικέως ὑπὲρ Θηβῶν αἷμα, καὶ τῶν Σκεδάσου θυγατέρων ἐν Λεύκτροις ὕστερον: ὁ τοὺς Λακωνικοὺς ἐπαινῶν ἐφήβους ξαινομένους ταῖς μάστιξι, καὶ τὸ ἐπιβώμιον αἷμα τέρπον θεὰν ἁγνὴν καὶ παρθένον: ὁ τὸ Σωκράτους ἐπαίρων κώνειον, καὶ τὸ Ἐπικτήτου σκέλος, καὶ τὸν Ἀναξάρχου θύλακον, ὧν ἀναγκαία μᾶλλον ἢ ἑκούσιος ἡ φιλοσοφία: καὶ τὸ Κλεομβρότου πήδημα τοῦ Ἀμβρακιώτου, τῷ Περὶ ψυχῆς λόγῳ φιλοσοφηθέν: καὶ τὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν κυάμων Πυθαγορικὴν ἔνστασιν, καὶ θανάτου περιφρόνησιν Θεανοῦς, ἢ οὐκ οἶδ' οὗτινος τῶν τὰ ἐκείνου τετελεσμένων ἢ φιλοσοφησάντων.