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ndw subject to like orders of the Fates. After saying this,he ordered the dog to lick the sore, in order to shew thathe who was the author of the wound should be the authorof its cure.* After this operation, the youth turned to hisfather, knew his mother, saluted his companions, anddrank of the water of the Cydnus. Apollonius was no!forgetful of the dog, whom he made pass over the river,after offering up his prayers to it. Having crossed it, hestopped on the opposite bank, and set up such a barkingas mad dogs are seldom wont to do, he then hung downhis ears, and wagged his tail like one cured. Water be-comes medicinal to dogs the moment they are able to en-dure it.f I have now related all Apollonius did in favourof temples and cities, for and against nations, for the deadand the sick, with the wise and the foolish; and with theprinces, who consulted him on the subject of virtue.