For once again, as he sat on the mountain and looked up, he saw some
one carried aloft, and a great rejoicing among some who met him.
Then wondering, and blessing such a choir, he prayed to be taught
what that might be; and straightway a voice came to him that this
was the soul of Ammon, the monk in Nitria, {60} who had persevered
as an ascetic to his old age; and the distance from Nitria to the
mountain where Antony was, is thirteen days' journey. Those then
who were with Antony, seeing the old man wondering, asked the
reason, and heard that Ammon had just expired, for he was known to
them on account of his having frequently come thither, and many
signs having been worked by him, of which this is one. . . .

[Here follows the story (probably an interpolation) of Ammon's being
miraculously carried across the river Lycus, because he was ashamed
to undress himself.]

But the monks to whom Antony spoke about Ammon's death noted down
the day; and when brethren came from Nitria after thirty days, they
inquired and learnt that Ammon had fallen asleep at the day and hour
in which the old man saw his soul carried aloft. And all on both
sides wondered at the purity of Antony's soul; how he had learnt and
seen instantly what had happened thirteen days' journey off.

Moreover, Archeleas the Count, finding him once in the outer
mountain praying alone, asked him concerning Polycratia, that
wonderful and Christ-bearing maiden in Laodicea; for she suffered
dreadful internal pain from her extreme training, and was altogether
weak in body. Antony, therefore, prayed; and the Count noted down
the day on which the prayer was offered. And going back to
Laodicea, he found the maiden cured; and asking when and on what day