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214 THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOMthe appetite, he went barefoot and clothed himself inlinen, and rejected the use of all garments madefrom living creatures. He let his hair grow, andlived in the temple, all the officers of which wereastonished at his conduct, and ^Esculapius himselfonce said to the priest how he had pleasure in performingcures of the sick before such a witness asApollonius. Thus his fame spread far and wide." In his twentieth year he lost his father, and hastenedto Tyana to bury him beside his mother withhis own hands. He divided a splendid inheritancewith his brother, and being still under age went backto ^Eg?e, where he made the temple a shrine of thePlatonic and Peripatetic philosophy. When he cameof full age he returned to Tyana, and ceded the halfof his patrimonial portion to his brother, in the hopeof reforming him, in which he succeeded. Most ofthe rest of his property he gave to other relations whoneeded it, ' reserving CD but little for himself. The famoussaying of Pythagoras, that a man should be strictlyfaithful to his wife, was intended, he observed, forthers ; for himself, he would never marry, nor indulgea the delights of love. And he practised the preceptf silence for five whole years, though it was a glabour to him, having things to say which he refrainedfrom saying, often provoked to anger, whiche might not indulge, often wishing to censure, whichhe forbore." After he had fulfilled the law of silence he visitedAntioch the Great and the temple of Apollo at Daphnaethere. And his mode of life in general is thus described: At sunrise he performed apart from all certainrites which he communicated only to such as hadbeen prepared by a four years' silence. After this, if