The basis of this story lies in a brief tale occurring in the Syriac version of Palladius's _Histories of the Fathers_, which is to be found in a beautiful English translation in Sir Ernest Wallis Budge's book _The Paradise of the Holy Fathers_. I have derived many other incidents and a great mass of details from the same work, but this story is otherwise imaginary in the sense that I have troubled little about historical or topographical accuracy. The quotations from Plotinus and Proclus are from Thomas Taylor's translations, which, for reasons entirely unphilosophical, I have altered in one or two places. It was not long past noon when Malchus, son of one of the foremost families of Ale…
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