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Chapter
VII.—Nicetas Tells What Befell Him.
And Nicetas, who in future is to be called
Faustinus, began to speak. “On that very night when, as you
know, the ship went to pieces, we were taken up by some men, who did
not fear to follow the profession of robbers on the deep. They
placed us in a boat, and brought us along the coast, sometimes rowing
and sometimes sending for provisions, and at length took us to
Cæsarea Stratonis,1166
| 1166 This clause,
literally translated, is, “and sometimes impelling it with oars,
they brought us along the land; and sometimes sending for provisions,
they conveyed us to Cæsarea Stratonis.” The Latin
translator renders “to land,” not “along the
land.” The passage assumes a different form in the
Recognitions, the first Epitome, and the second
Epitome; and there is, no doubt, some corruption in the
text. The text has δακρύοντας, which makes no sense. We have adopted the rendering given in
the Recognitions. Various attempts have been made to amend
the word. | and there
tormented us by hunger, fear, and blows, that we might not recklessly
disclose anything which they did not wish us to tell; and, moreover,
changing our names, they succeeded in selling us. Now the woman
who bought us was a proselyte of the Jews, an altogether worthy person,
of the name of Justa. She adopted us as her own children, and
zealously brought us up in all the learning of the Greeks. But
we, becoming discreet with our years, were strongly attached to her
religion, and we paid good heed to our culture, in order that,
disputing with the other nations, we might be able to convince them of
their error. We also made an accurate study of the doctrines of
the philosophers, especially the most atheistic,—I mean those of
Epicurus and Pyrrho,—in order that we might be the better able to
refute them.1167
| 1167 [Comp.
Recognitions, viii. 7, where the studies of the brothers are
more fully indicated, as a preface to the discussions in which they
appear as disputants.—R.] |
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