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The Treatise of Eusebius Against the Life of Apollonius by PhilostratuS: Chapters XXXI to XL

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CHAP. XXXI Apollonius’ miracles due to the co-operations of evil demonsThese then are the achievements which preceded his accusation, and it behoves us to notice throughout the treatise that, even if we admit the author to tell the truth in his stories of miracles, he yet clearly shows that they were severally performed by Apollonius with the co-operation of a demon. For his presentiment of the plague, though it might not seem to be magical and uncanny, if he owed it, as he himself said, to the…

The Treatise of Eusebius Against the Life of Apollonius by PhilostratuS: Chapters XXXI to XL

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