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 that the old pauper could have been nothing but an evil spirit. Thence he went to Greece, remaining for a short time in Troy, where he conversed with the shade of Achilles, and was informed that the fair Helen had never been in the city of Priam at all. In Lesbos he visited the temple of Orpheus, and landed at Athens, where he healed a young man who was possessed by devils, interrupting himself, in order to do this, in a sermon against the voluptuous dances of Attica. Then he visited all the oracles of Greece, proclaiming himself as a reformer and restorer of the ancient religious rites.

In Corinth he opened the eyes of one of his disciples and enabled him to see that a woman, who to all appearance was most beautiful and wealthy, and to whom he was inordinately attached, was in reality a Lamia, one of those evil spirits who seduce the affections of young men and suck out their life-blood in the night at their leisure. At Lacedaemon he restored the ancient code of laws. In Olympia he was not only present at the games, but was almost worshipped by the attendant