That's right poor little Philip isn't blind anymore. Philip is on of the main characters in our Greek primer and he was hit in a fight at a festival and became blind. So for the last maybe four months he has been riding to Epidiarus (sp?) so that he can go to the temple of Aesculapius to be healed. So yesterday he took this drink from the priest and was left to sleep in "the holy place". Today he had a weird dream and offered Aesculapius his knuckle bones to be healed. And then when he woke "he could see both the heavens and the sun rising above the crest of the hills and the tree moving with the wind." It is interesting reading out of a primer, cause many times the sentences don't sound quite right, especially when they are translated very literally.
PS I am impressed, my spell checker had Aesculapius in the dictionary!
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