Aelius Aristides 24, Sacred Tales II
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§ 291 Come let us also recall earlier events, if we are able....
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§ 292 When I was brought from Italy, after I had contracted many varied ailments from constant sickness and the stormy weather which I experienced while departing through Thrace...
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§ 293 But then we did not yet know who Salvius...
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§ 294 And it produced no less an effect than a purge by hellebore would,...
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§ 295 Standing before my bed in this form, when he had extended his fingers and calculated the time,...
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§ 296 Who could tell what came next. During all the rest of the day and night till bed time,...
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§ 297 But he said that it was necessary to do the following....
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§ 298 Philadelphus dreamed these things....
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§ 299 To return to my argument — the subject was fate —,...
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§ 300 I seemed even to be at the conclusion of the play and to put aside my buskins,...
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§ 301 Thus I had my life up to this time as a bounty from the gods,...
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§ 302 Moreover another bath in Smyrna...
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§ 303 and he foretold that the ship Asclepius...
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§ 304 and the nights were sleepless instead of the days....
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§ 305 I was absolutely prevented from taking nourishment,...
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§ 306 Then we wandered and ran in the strait, sometimes forwards,...
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§ 307 Now let us return to the divine baths, whence we digressed....
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§ 308 Even then I afforded a spectacle. So great was the coldness of the mud and air,...
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§ 309 Akin to these things was my continually going unshod in winter and my incubations throughout the whole sanctuary...
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