Aelius Aristides 23, Sacred Tales I (snips) (Aristid.Or.23)
Aelius Aristides, SACRED TALES I, from P. Aelius Aristides: The Complete Works, translated by Charles A. Behr, (Leiden: Brill 1981), a work still in copyright, quoted in index snippets only, with minor corrections. Greek text of William Dindorf (1829), a work in the public domain placed online by the Perseus Project (reused by el.wikisource.org) under a Creative Commons license. Behr snippets aligned with the Jebb page numbers by Brady Kiesling. This text has 36 tagged references to 17 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg023; Wikidata ID: Q87770647; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 273 It seems to me that I shall speak like Homer ...
§ 274 And I myself would not tell all the achievements of the Saviour ...
§ 275 I passed the time in walking about the house and in games, ...
§ 276 and as the conversation continued, I recalled how many things had been disturbed around the sanctuary ...
§ 277 On the twenty-first, I dreamed that I had the clothes of a priest and that I saw the priest himself present. ...
§ 278 I showed him the sea and asked him if it were also better to bathe there or in a small space. ...
§ 279 and all those in the market place bore torches, ...
§ 280 And somehow after this, I said to the priest that it was clear from what I had read that there would be no need to eat. ...
§ 281 I took part in the procession to the Emperor, ...
§ 282 or to give the greater portion to our Emperor, ...
§ 283 Since my foot was numb, I went into the main house. ...
§ 284 They behaved marvelously to me during the trip. ...
§ 285 Now it was clearly indicated that I stay here. ...
§ 286 I said to him that I was fasting. But he indicated that he knew, ...
§ 287 Next on each following day, having performed our usual routine, ...
§ 288 We were ordered to do many strange things. ...
§ 289 while the dream continually recurred. Meanwhile he ran back to some farm of ours for some reason, ...
§ 290 So this happened. But Zosimus was felicitated by all, ...