Aelius Aristides 27, Sacred Tales V (snips) (Aristid.Or.27)
Aelius Aristides, SACRED TALES V, 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 32 tagged references to 17 ancient places.CTS URN: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0284.tlg027; Wikidata ID: Q87770653; Trismegistos: #N/A [Open Greek text in new tab]
§ 534 In summer time, my stomach was upset, and I was thirsty night and day, ...
§ 535 and somehow my body recovered and my will power was imbued by a certain energy and contentment, ...
§ 536 We entered in darkness, and were led by the hand, ...
§ 537 On the second or third day, I passed by my ancestral home and reached the sanctuary of Olympian ...
§ 538 I entered my room and found myself possessed of a small couch and a clean mattress, ...
§ 539 On the following night, when I descended to the plain, ...
§ 540 which he said that Alcimus ...
§ 541 And a most divine thing happened on the journey — for in the words of Homer ...
§ 542 Just now he was intending to go to the Odeon by the harbor and hold a lecture there, ...
§ 543 it was consistent with the original tale of how he raised me up and restored me to Smyrna ...
§ 544 They did not endure it, but as if with one voice, ...
§ 545 When the gasping cock came near my hands, ...
§ 546 I was at my strongest, and I arose at dawn, ...
§ 547 I said that I must be moved at eleven o’clock, ...
§ 548 and stayed long enough to consider some of the things which had happened, ...
§ 549 as if I had the powers of all these men. And I looked at the boy and said, ...
§ 550 and there was not much regard of Plato ...