Aelius Aristides 26, Sacred Tales IV (snips) (Aristid.Or.26)
Aelius Aristides, SACRED TALES IV, 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 61 tagged references to 24 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg026; Wikidata ID: Q87770651; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 321 At the beginning of the tenth year of my illness, ...
§ 322 Here I was completely consecrated, as it were, ...
§ 323 And years later that plague occurred, from which the Saviour ...
§ 324 It is impossible to say through the length of time whatever dream came first, ...
§ 325 It seemed necessary to do this. And while we were talking and taking counsel, ...
§ 326 or someone speaking to me indicated that Rhosander can signify the god. ...
§ 327 Indeed the greatest and most valuable part of my training was my access to and communion with these dreams. ...
§ 328 For he used this expression, meaning “the chorus leader of our age.” And I comprehended what he meant and said to Bassus ...
§ 329 The following is also worthy to attribute to Delian ...
§ 330 or this in any case would have happened so, ...
§ 331 But most things were written for Apollo ...
§ 332 around dawn, or even still sooner, a divinely inspired inscription came to me, ...
§ 333 When this was proclaimed, I crossed over to the garden of Asclepius ...
§ 334 And the name Theodorus ...
§ 335 Furthermore I remember the following other dreams. ...
§ 336 We saw others of different appearance and form, ...
§ 337 Quadratus interrupted him and said, “Will you quote the proverb, ...
§ 338 I shall return to where a little before, I said that I would stop and abandon my tale, ...
§ 339 And I received the verse from Delphi ...
§ 340 When he had read my letters, he commanded me to appear there. ...
§ 341 that one might sooner stay the flow of the rivers than bribe him, ...
§ 342 And while he was still reading it, it was clear that he tried various shifts and in many parts of the letter stopped and turned back. ...
§ 343 And after this, when he saw me drawing near, ...
§ 344 And an appeal was made by us to Rome ...
§ 345 When I had entered the Assembly and the People shouted their customary approval, ...
§ 346 After my people had purchased this estate for me, ...