Aelius Aristides 24, Sacred Tales II (snips) (Aristid.Or.24)
Aelius Aristides, SACRED TALES II, 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 54 tagged references to 31 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg024; Wikidata ID: Q87770649; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 291 Come let us also recall earlier events, if we are able. ...
§ 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 ...
§ 293 But then we did not yet know who Salvius ...
§ 294 And it produced no less an effect than a purge by hellebore would, ...
§ 295 Standing before my bed in this form, when he had extended his fingers and calculated the time, ...
§ 296 Who could tell what came next. During all the rest of the day and night till bed time, ...
§ 297 But he said that it was necessary to do the following. ...
§ 298 Philadelphus dreamed these things. ...
§ 299 To return to my argument — the subject was fate — , ...
§ 300 I seemed even to be at the conclusion of the play and to put aside my buskins, ...
§ 301 Thus I had my life up to this time as a bounty from the gods, ...
§ 302 Moreover another bath in Smyrna ...
§ 303 and he foretold that the ship Asclepius ...
§ 304 and the nights were sleepless instead of the days. ...
§ 305 I was absolutely prevented from taking nourishment, ...
§ 306 Then we wandered and ran in the strait, sometimes forwards, ...
§ 307 Now let us return to the divine baths, whence we digressed. ...
§ 308 Even then I afforded a spectacle. So great was the coldness of the mud and air, ...
§ 309 Akin to these things was my continually going unshod in winter and my incubations throughout the whole sanctuary ...