in number than Pharaoh's army? Yet they were all drowned when God
so willed." While he spoke, the hostile keels, with foaming beaks,
were but a short stone's throw off. He then stood on the ship's
bow, and stretching out his hand against them, "Let it be enough,"
he said, "to have come thus far."

O wondrous faith! The boats instantly sprang back, and made stern-
way, although the oars impelled them in the opposite direction. The
pirates were astonished, having no wish to return back-foremost, and
struggled with all their might to reach the ship; but were carried
to the shore again, much faster than they had come.

I pass over the rest, lest by telling every story I make the volume
too long. This only I will say, that, while he sailed prosperously
through the Cyclades, he heard the voices of foul spirits, calling
here and there out of the towns and villages, and running together
on the beaches. So he came to Paphos, the city of Cyprus, famous
once in poets' songs, which now, shaken down by frequent
earthquakes, only shows what it has been of yore by the foundations
of its ruins. There he dwelt meanly near the second milestone out
of the city, rejoicing much that he was living quietly for a few
days. But not three weeks were past, ere throughout the whole
island whosoever had unclean spirits began to cry that Hilarion the
servant of Christ was come, and that they must hasten to him.
Salonica, Curium, Lapetha, and the other towns, all cried this
together, most saying that they knew Hilarion, and that he was truly
a servant of God; but where he was they knew not. Within a month,
nearly 200 men and women were gathered together to him. Whom when
he saw, grieving that they would not suffer him to rest, raging, as
it were to revenge himself, he scourged them with such an instancy