{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030104.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030104.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030104.htm","text":"Chapter XXI.\u2014Of the sorcery at Carr\u00e6 which was detected after his death. After he was slain the jugglery of his sorcery was detected. For Carr\u00e6 is a city which still retains the relics of his false religion.\nJulian had left Edessa on his left because it was adorned with the grace of true religion, and while in his vain folly he was journeying through Carr\u00e6, he came to the temple honoured by the impious and after going through certain rites with his companions in defilement, he locked and sealed the doors, and stationed sentinels with orders to see that none came in till his return. When news came of his death, and the reign of iniquity was succeeded by one of piety, the shrine was opened, and within was found a proof of the late emperor\u2019s manliness, wisdom, and piety. 662 For there was seen a woman hung up on high by the hairs of her head, and with her hands outstretched. The villain had cut open her belly, and so I suppose learnt from her liver his victory over the Persians. 663\nThis was the abomination discovered at Carr\u00e6.\nThe reading \u03b5\u1f50\u03c3\u03ad\u03b2\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd for \u1f00\u03c3\u03ad\u03b2\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd seems to keep up the irony.\n106:663\n\u1f21\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03af\u03b1, or \u201cinspection of the liver,\u201d was a recognized form of divination. cf. the Sept. of Ez. xxi. 21. \u201c\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03b3\u03bb\u03c5\u03c0\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f21\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03ae\u03c3\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9\u201d and Cic. de div. ii. 13. \u201cCaput jecoris ex omni parte diligentissime considerant; si vero id non est inventum, nihil putant accidere potuisse tristius.\u201d Vide also \u00c6sch. Pr. V. 503, and Paley\u2019s note.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.: Of the sorcery at Carr\u00e6 which was detected after his death. After he was slain the jugglery of his sorcery was detected. For Carr\u00e6 is a city which still retains the relics of his false religion.","type":"page"}