The Mystery of Apollonius

The ephesians recognized that he was a demon, and they stoned him so thoroughly that their stones were heaped into a great cairn around him. After a little pause, apollonius bade them remove the stones and acquaint themselves with the wild animal they had slain. And instead of him there was a hound who resembled in form and look a melusian dog, but was in size the equal of the largest lion. There he lay before their eyes, pounded to a pulp by their stones and vomiting foam, as mad dogs do. Accordingly, the statue of the averting god heracles has been set up over the spot where the ghost was slain. So