also  work  for  the  mutation  of  clothing,  even
while  manhood  is  presented.  Every  affection  is
a  heat :  when,  however,  it  is  blown  to  (the  flame
of)  affectation^  forthwith,  by  the  blaze  of  glory,
it  is  an  ardour.  From  this  fuel,  therefore,  you
see  a  great  king » —  inferior  only  to  his  glory  —
seething.  He  had  conquered  the  Median  race,
and  was  conquered  by  Median  garb.  Doffing
the  triumphal  mail,  he  degraded  himself  into  the
captive  trousers  !  The  breast  dissculptured  with
scaly  bosses,  by  covering  it  with  a  transparent
texture  he  bared ;  panting  still  after  the  work  of
war,  and  (as  it  were)  softening,  he  extinguished
it  with  the  ventilating  silk  !  Not  sufficiently
swelling  of  spirit  was  the  Macedonian,  unless  he
had  likewise  found  delight  in  a  highly  inflated
garb :  only  that  philosophers  withal  (I  believe)
themselves  affect  somewhat  of  that  kind ;  for  I
hear  that  there  has  been  (such  a  thing  as)  phil-
osophizing in  purple.  If  a  philosopher  (ap-
pears) in  purple,  why  not  in  gilded  slippers*
too  ?  For  a  Tyrian  3  to  be  shod  in  anything  but
gold,  is  by  no  means  consonant  with  Greek
habits.  Some  one  will  say,  "Well,  but  there
was  another^  who  wore  silk  indeed,  and  shod
himself  in  brazen  sandals."  Worthily,  indeed,
in  order  that  at  the  bottom  of  his  Bacchantian
raiment  he  might  make  some  tinkling  sound,  did
he  walk  in  cymbals !  But  if,  at  that  moment,
Diogenes  had  been  barking  from  his  tub,  he  would
not  (have  trodden  on  him  5)  with  muddy  feet  —
as  the  Platonic  couches  testify  —  but  would  have
carried  Empedocles  down  bodily  to  the  secret
recesses  of  the  Cloacinae ;  ^  in  order  that  he  who
had  madly  thought  himself  a  celestial  being
might,  as  a  god,  salute  flrst  his  sisters,^  and
afterwards  men.  Such  garments,  therefore,  as
alienate  from  nature  and  modesty,  let  it  be
allowed  to  be  just  to  eye  fixedly  and  point  at
with  the  finger  and  expose  to  ridicule  by  a  nod.
