We have the fifth case still to consider, and I
should not like to name another man and pass
over Demetrios of Sounion. This Demetrios
sailed to Egypt in company with Antiphilos of
Alopeke. They were friends from childhood,
being of the same age, and they lived together as
students in Egypt, Demetrios pursuing the Cynic
system under that famous sophist from Rhodes,
and Antiphilos studying medicine. It came to
pass after a while that Demetrios went into the
interior to see the Pyramids and the Memnon,
for he had heard of the Pyramids that, in spite of
their height, they throw no shadow, and of the
Memnon that it cries out at the rising of the sun.
Being desirous, then, of seeing the Pyramids and


 


hearing the Memnon, he sailed up the Nile, leaving Antiphilos, who dreaded the journey and the
heat, behind.
When Demetrios had been gone six months,