[63] Apolog. cap. 5.

[64] Lampridius (Hist. Aug.) Alex. cap. 29 f.

[65] Ibid.

[66] de Haeres. cap. 8. For the references I am indebted to Pouqueville, Voyage de la Grèce, vol. VI. p. 136.

[67] Clem. Alex. Protrept. cap. iv. § 55 (p. 17 Sylb.).

[68] I have given the story in the form in which I heard it told by a peasant on board a boat in the Euripus. He was a native, I think, of Euboea, and being uneducated probably knew the story by oral tradition. A slightly longer form has, however, been published by Hahn (Griech. Märchen, vol. II. no. 76) and by Πολίτης (Μελέτη ἐπὶ τοῦ βίου τῶν νεωτέρων Ἑλλήνων, p. 43).

[69] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθ. III. p. 164.

[70] Bent, The Cyclades, p. 457.

[71] See below, pp. [169] f.

[72] I am unable to determine whether this saint is the prophet Elijah of the Old Testament, or a Christian hermit of the fourth century. The Greeks themselves differ in their accounts.