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| A Cool Retreat.
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Chapter X.—A Cool
Retreat.
And a certain one amongst them—a rich man,
and possessing a garden of evergreen plants1035
| 1035 The text here is
corrupt. If we adopt Lobeck’s emendation of παμμιούσων
into παμπλουσιον, the literal translation is, “possessing a property around him
continually rich in leaves.” [The offer of this man has a
partial parallel in Recognitions, viii.
35–38.—R.] | —said: “Since it is very
hot, let us retire for a little from the city to my
gardens.” Accordingly they went forth, and sat down in a
place where there were pure streams of cool water, and a green shade of
all sorts of trees. There I sat pleasantly, and the others round
about me; and they being silent, instead of a verbal request made to
me, showed by their eager looks to me that they required the proof of
my assertion. And therefore I proceeded to speak
thus:—
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