towards the shore, fearing lest the town should be utterly
overthrown, they went out to the old man, and, as if they were
leading him out to battle, stationed him on the shore. And when he
had marked three signs of the Cross upon the sand, and stretched out
his hands against the waves, it is past belief to what a height the
sea swelled, and stood up before him, and then, raging long as if
indignant at the barrier, fell back little by little into itself.

All Epidaurus, and all that region, talk of this to this day; and
mothers teach it their children, that they may hand it down to
posterity. Truly, that which was said to the Apostles, "If ye
believe, ye shall say to this mountain, Be removed, and cast into
the sea; and it shall be done," can be fulfilled even to the letter,
if we have the faith of the Apostles, and such as the Lord commanded
them to have. For which is more strange, that a mountain should
descend into the sea; or that mountains of water should stiffen of a
sudden, and, firm as a rock only at an old man's feet, should flow
softly everywhere else? All the city wondered; and the greatness of
the sign was bruited abroad even at Salo.

When the old man discovered that, he fled secretly by night in a
little boat, and finding a merchantman after two days, sailed for
Cyprus. Between Maleae and Cythera {121} they were met by pirates,
who had left their vessels under the shore, and came up in two large
galleys, worked not with sails, but oars. As the rowers swept the
billows, all on board began to tremble, weep, run about, get
handspikes ready, and, as if one messenger was not enough, vie with
each other in telling the old man that pirates were at hand. He
looked out at them and smiled. Then turning to his disciples, "O ye
of little faith," he said; "wherefore do ye doubt? Are these more