Aelius Aristides 25, Sacred Tales III (Aristid.Or.25)
Aelius Aristides, SACRED TALES III, 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 25 tagged references to 15 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg025; Wikidata ID: Q87770650; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 309 I happened to be staying in Aliani ...
§ 310 My attempts to vomit had no result, but even a drop caused a tempest, ...
§ 311 and under what sort of regimen I lived after that. ...
§ 312 Nevertheless I decided to persevere and to entrust myself to the drug, ...
§ 313 Then he was in great fear and anguish, when he heard these things about me, ...
§ 314 And at noon, I think, I again had an attack, ...
§ 315 Later after asking the temple warden, I learned that the mixture was compounded of three ingredients, ...
§ 316 It would be possible to tell countless other things, ...
§ 317 although the god granted it, I deviated but slightly in the measure of my drinking. ...
§ 318 no one daring to stay at home. And finally they gave up supplicating. ...
§ 319 Then I stopped, so that I might not seem to be some demagogue, ...
§ 320 as it were, removing and purging refuse and changing it to its proper state. ...