Pythagoram plerique Zoroastri sectatorem similiterque magiae peritum arbitrati tamen memoriae prodiderunt, cum animadvertisset proxime Metapontum in litore Italiae suae, quam subsicivam Graeciam fecerat, a quibusdam piscatoribus everriculum trahi, fortunam iactus eius emisse et pretio dato iussisse ilico piscis eos, qui capti tenebantur, solvi retibus et reddi profundo; quos scilicet eum de manibus amissurum non fuisse, si quid in his utile ad magian comperisset.
Most people think that Pythagoras was a disciple of Zoroaster and no less skilled in magic, and yet they have recorded that he was on the shore very near Metapontum in his adoptive Italy, which he had made into a second Greece, when he noticed certain fishermen hauling in a dragnet. He bought whatever their catch happened to be, but after paying the price immediately told them to free the fish caught in their nets and return them to the deep. Surely he would not have let them slip from his grasp if had he discovered them to be of any use in magic?
final_alignments\Apuleius_Apologia.json