SPEUSIPPUS.
Pythagoras is of opinion--

HIPPOMACHUS.
Pythagoras stole that and all his other opinions from Asia and
Egypt. The transmigration of the soul and the vegetable diet are
derived from India. I met a Brachman in Sogdiana--

CALLICLES.
All nonsense!

CHARICLEA.
What think you, Alcibiades?

ALCIBIADES.
I think that, if the doctrine be true, your spirit will be
transfused into one of the doves who carry (Homer's Odyssey, xii.
63.) ambrosia to the gods or verses to the mistresses of poets.
Do you remember Anacreon's lines? How should you like such an
office?

CHARICLEA.
If I were to be your dove, Alcibiades, and you would treat me as
Anacreon treated his, and let me nestle in your breast and drink
from your cup, I would submit even to carry your love-letters to
other ladies.

CALLICLES.
What, in the name of Jupiter, is the use of all these
speculations about death? Socrates once (See the close of