Book V - Snyder Bible

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been deprived of his parents, and had had twin brothers older
than himself, and that, as his father told him, his mother once
saw a vision, by which she was ordered to depart from the city
of Rome with her twin sons, else she and they should suddenly
perish. And when she had told his father the dream, he, loving
his sons with tender affection, and afraid of any evil befalling
them, put his wife and sons on board a ship with all necessaries,
and sent them to Athens to be educated. Afterwards he
sent once and again persons to inquire after them, but nowhere
found even a trace of them. At last the father himself
went on the search, and until now he is nowhere to be found.
When Clement had given me this narrative, there came one to
us, asking us to go to the neighboring island of Aradus, to see
vinewood columns of wonderful size. I consented; and when
we came to the place, all the rest went into the interior of the
temple; but Ifor what reason I know nothad no mind to go
farther.
Chapter XXVII: Recapitulation Continued.
m, I began to notice
this woman, and to wonder in what part of her body she was
disabled, that she did not seek her living by the labor of her
hands, but submitted to the shame of beggary. I therefore
asked of her the reason of it. She confessed that she was
sprung of a noble race, and was married to a no less noble
husband, whose brother, said she, being inflamed by illegitimate
love towards me, desired to defile his brothers bed.
This I abhorred, and yet dared not to tell my husband of so
great wickedness, lest I should stir up war between the brothers
and bring disgrace upon the family, and judged it better to
depart from my country with my twin sons, leaving the
younger boy to be a comfort to his father. And that this might
be done with an honorable appearance, I thought good to
feign a dream, and to tell my husband that there stood by me
in a vision a certain deity, who told me to set out from the city
immediately with my twins, and remain until he should instruct
me to return. She told me that her husband, when he