§308οὖν θέαν καὶ τότε, τοσαύτη δʼ ἦν τοῦ τε πηλοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀέρος ἡ ψυχρότης ὥστε ἕρμαιον ἐποιησάμην προσδραμεῖν τῷ φρέατι, καί μοι τὸ ὕδωρ ἀντʼ ἄλλης ἀλέας ἤρκεσε.
So I presented a spectacle on that occasion as well, and the coldness of both the mud and the air was so great that I considered it a godsend to run to the well, and the water was sufficient for me instead of any other warmth.
καὶ ταῦτʼ ἐστὶ τὰ πρῶτα τοῦ θαύματος.
And these are the first details of the wonder.
τῇ δʼ ἐπιούσῃ νυκτὶ προστάττει τῷ τε πηλῷ πάλιν κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ χρήσασθαι καὶ δραμεῖν κύκλῳ περὶ τοὺς νεὼς εἰς τρίς· καὶ τοῦ βορέου τὸ χρῆμα ἀμύθητον ἦν καὶ ὁ κρυμὸς ἐπηύξητο, οὐχ οὕτως πυκνὴν εὗρες ἂν ἐσθῆτα ὥστε ἱκανὴν εἶναι στέγειν, ἀλλὰ διεξῄει καὶ προσέπιπτε ταῖς πλευραῖς ὥσπερ βέλος.
On the following night he commanded me to use the mud again in the same way and to run in a circle around the temples three times; and the force of the north wind was unspeakable and the frost had increased; you could not have found clothing thick enough to keep it out, but it penetrated and struck against the sides like an arrow.
τῶν οὖν ἑταίρων τινὲς ὡσπερεὶ παραμυθεῖσθαί με βουλόμενοι καὶ ταῦτα οὐδὲν δεόμενον ἔγνωσαν παρακινδυνεῦσαί τε καὶ μιμήσασθαι.
So some of my companions, wishing as it were to comfort me, and that when there was no need at all, decided to run the risk and imitate me.
ἐγὼ μὲν δὴ χρισάμενος περιέθεον παρέχων τῷ βορέᾳ ξαίνειν εὖ καὶ καλῶς, καὶ τελευτῶν προσελθὼν πρὸς τὸ φρέαρ ἀπελουσάμην· τῶν δὲ ὁ μέν τις εὐθὺς ἀπεστράφη, ὁ δὲ σπασμῷ τε εἴχετο καὶ κομισθεὶς ὑπὸ σπουδῆς εἰς βαλανεῖον μετὰ πολλῶν πραγμάτων ἐξεθερμαίνετο.
I indeed, having anointed myself, ran around, allowing the north wind to thrash me soundly, and finally, going to the well, washed myself; but of them, one turned back immediately, and another was seized with spasm and, being carried in haste to a bath-house, was warmed with great difficulty.
ἡμεῖς δὲ ἤδη τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο ἠρινὴν ἤγομεν ἡμέραν·
But we, for the time after this, were already enjoying a spring-like day.
αὖθις δὲ χειμῶνος ὥρᾳ καὶ πάγου καὶ πνεύματος οἵου ψυχροτάτου κελεύει λαβόντα τοῦ πηλοῦ καὶ περιχεάμενον καθέζεσθαι εἰς τὴν αὐλὴν τοῦ ἱεροῦ, καλοῦντα Δία, θεὸν ὕπατον καὶ ἄριστον.
And again, in a season of winter and ice and the coldest kind of wind, he commanded me to take mud, pour it all over myself, and sit in the courtyard of the temple, calling upon Zeus, the highest and best of gods.
ἐγίγνετο καὶ ταῦτα ἐν πολλοῖς τοῖς θεαταῖς.
This too took place in the presence of many spectators.
ὃ τοίνυν οὐδενὸς ἧττον ἐθαυμάσθη τῶν εἰρημένων, ὅτε γὰρ ἡ συνέχεια τῶν πυρετῶν ἦν ἡμέρας τετταράκοντα καὶ ἔτι πλείους, καί τινες καὶ τῶν λιμένων ἐπάγησαν καὶ τῆς πρὸς Ἐλαίᾳ θαλάττης ὅσον ἐκ Περγάμου κατιόντι ὁ αἰγιαλὸς ἐπέχει, τότε μοι προστάττει χιτωνίσκον ἐνδῦναι λινοῦν καὶ μηδʼ ὁτιοῦν ἄλλο, ἀλλʼ ἐν τούτῳ διακαρτερεῖν, καὶ προελθόντα ἐξ εὐνῆς ἀπονίψασθαι ἐπὶ τῆς κρήνης ἔξω.
Now, what was wondered at no less than any of the things mentioned was this: when the fivers had been continuous for forty days and even more, and some of the harbors were frozen, as well as the sea near Elaea as far as the shore extends for one going down from Pergamum, at that time he commanded me to put on a linen tunic and nothing else whatever, but to endure in this, and having gone forward from my bed, to wash myself at the spring outside.
ἦν δʼ ἔργον τυχεῖν ὕδατος, ἀλλὰ πάντα ἐπεπήγει, καὶ ὁ κρουνὸς εὐθὺς ἀπεψύχετο ἐν αὐτῷ, καὶ οἷον κρυστάλλου τις αὐλὸς ἦν, καὶ ὅ τι δὲ ἐγχέαις θερμὸν, παραχρῆμα ἐπήγνυτο.
But it was a task to get water, for everything was frozen, and the spout was immediately frozen within itself, and was like a pipe of ice, and whatever warm water you poured in was instantly frozen.
ὅμως δὲ τῇ τε κρήνῃ ὡμιλήσαμεν καὶ ὁ λινοῦς ἤρκεσε, καὶ πάντες μᾶλλον ἐρίγων, καὶ ἡ δίαιτα σχεδὸν ἡ πλείστη περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν ἠνύσθη μοι.
Nevertheless, we visited the spring, and the linen tunic was sufficient, and everyone else shivered more; and nearly the greatest part of my regimen was accomplished around the temple.
ἀδελφὰ δὲ τούτων καὶ αἱ τῶν χειμώνων ἀνυποδησίαι αἱ συνεχεῖς καὶ §309διὰ παντὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ κατακλίσεις, ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ τε καὶ ὅπου τύχοι, καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα δὴ ἡ ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ νεὼ ὑπʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ἱερὰν λαμπάδα τῆς θεοῦ γενομένη.
And akin to these were the continuous walking barefoot during winters and the lying down throughout the temple, both in the open air and wherever it might happen, and not least indeed that which took place in the path of the temple under the very sacred torch of the goddess.
ἐφόρεσα δὲ καὶ ἱμάτιον χιτωνίσκου χωρὶς, οὐκ οἶδʼ ὁπόσας τινὰς ἡμέρας.
And I also wore a cloak without a tunic, for I know not how many days.
καὶ μὴν ὅσα αὖ ποταμοῖς, πηγαῖς, ἢ καὶ θαλάττῃ προσέταξε χρήσασθαι, ἢ πρότερον τούτων ἢ ὕστερον, τὰ μὲν πρὸς Ἐλαίᾳ, τὰ δὲ Σμύρνῃ, καὶ ἐν οἷστισι τοῖς καιροῖς ἕκαστα αὐτῶν, ἀμύθητα ἂν εἴη λέγειν.
And indeed, all the instructions he gave to use rivers, springs, or even the sea, either before these things or after them—some at Elaea, others at Smyrna—and at what particular seasons each of them occurred, would be unspeakable to relate.
ἀλλʼ ὅτʼ ἔναγχος εἰς τὴν Ἔφεσον ἀπέστειλε κατὰ τοὺς λόγους, ὕσθημεν καὶ παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν πολλῷ, τῇ τρίτῃ τῶν ἡμερῶν, τὴν γὰρ δευτέραν αὐτὸς ἐπέσχε, καὶ συνέβη τὸ ὕδωρ εὐθὺς τότε γίγνεσθαι.
But when recently he sent me to Ephesus according to his words, we were rained upon heavily along the road on the third of the days—for on the second he himself held it back, and it happened that the water came immediately then.
σχεδὸν δὲ οὐκ εἰς ἐκείνην ἔφερε μόνον τὰ φανθέντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν, κἀγὼ προὔλεγον ταῦτα τοῖς σὺν ἐμαυτῷ.
And the things shown extended almost not to that day alone, but also to the next, and I foretold these things to those with me.
οἱ δὲ τὴν ἑτέραν ἔφερον τὴν τοῦ προϊέναι, ἄλλως τε καὶ τὴν σπουδὴν ὁρῶντες τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὡς εἶχον πρὸς ἡμᾶς.
But they favored the other course, namely that of going forward, especially seeing the eagerness of the people, how they were disposed toward us.
εἰσὶ γὰρ οἱ βαδίζοντες εἰς Πέργαμον τῶν θεωριῶν ἕνεκα, καὶ ὡς εἶδον ἡμᾶς, ἀνέστρεψαν εἰς τὴν Ἔφεσον δρόμῳ.
For there were some walking to Pergamum for the sake of the spectacles, and as they saw us, they turned back to Ephesus at a run.
καὶ ταῦτα μὲν οὕτως εἶχεν.
And these things were so.
ὑσθέντος δέ μου καὶ ἀγωνιῶντος οὐ πολλαῖς ὕστερον ἡμέραις ἐπειδὴ ἐν τῇ Ἐφέσῳ ἐγενόμην, ἐπιτάττει ψυχρὸν λουτρὸν, καὶ ἐλουσάμην ἐν τῷ γυμνασίῳ τῷ πρὸς τῷ Κορεσσῷ.
And not many days after I had been rained upon and had been struggling, when I was in Ephesus, he commanded a cold bath, and I bathed in the gymnasium near Coressus.
οἱ δʼ ὁρῶντες οὐχ ἧττον τὸ λουτρὸν ἢ τοὺς λόγους ἐθαύμαζον· τὰ δʼ ἀμφότερʼ ἦν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ.
And those who saw it wondered at the bath no less than at my words; and both were from the god.