# Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον 6.17

Philostratus the Athenian, Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον, Book 6. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/philostratus-the-athenian/text-5/6.17

τοιαῦτα εἴραντος τοῦ Νείλου καὶ οὕτω νεανικὰ ὑπολαβὼν ὁ Ἀπολλώνιος ὑπὲρ μισθοῦ δὲ εἶπεν οὐ διαλέξῃ μοι πρότερον σοφίας γε ἐρῶν τῆς ἐμῆς; διαλεγώμεθα ἦ δʼ ὁ Νεῖλος καὶ ὅ τι βούλει, αἴτει. αἰτῶ σε, εἶπεν ἃ μὲν αὐτὸς εἵλου, ᾑρῆσθαι, τοὺς δὲ Γυμνοὺς μὴ ἐνοχλεῖν ξυμβουλεύοντα ἃ μὴ πείσεις. πείσομαι ἔφη καὶ ὁμολογείσθω ὁ μισθός. ταῦτα μὲν δὴ οὕτως ἐσπούδασαν, ἐρομένου δʼ αὐτὸν μετὰ ταῦτα τοῦ Νείλου, πόσου χρόνου διατρίψοι περὶ τοὺς Γυμνούς, ὁπόσου ἔφη χρόνου ἀξία ἡ τῶνδε σοφία τῷ ξυνεσομένῳ σφίσιν, εἶτα ἐπὶ Καταδούπων τὴν ὁδὸν ποιησόμεθα τῶν πηγῶν ἕνεκα, χαρίεν γὰρ τὸ μὴ μόνον ἰδεῖν τὰς τοῦ Νείλου ἀρχάς, ἀλλὰ καὶ κελαδοῦντος αὐτοῦ ἀκοῦσαι.

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Philostratus the Athenian, Τὰ ἐς τὸν Τυανέα Ἀπολλώνιον, ed. Carl Ludwig Kayser. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0638.tlg001.local001/.