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Excerpt from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul
IT was in the Spring, as I remember, of the fifth year of the Emperor Claudius that I first saw the Holy Apostle, whom I saw not again till many years had passed away and though I was at that time but a child of ten years or thereabouts, yet every circumstance of it is imprinted upon my memory. It was the cool of the evening, and I was without the wall, hard by the Iconian gate, on one of the smaller hills that look down upon the town, a little to the north of the Iconian road. Hermas, our herdsman, was playing upon his pipe some song to the god Pan, and the goats were gambolling around him. But I - being wholly taken up with teach ing a little kid to dance to the sound of the music paid no heed to the chidings of our nurse trophime, who would have had me go back with her to the city because it was now near sun-down. SO lifting up her eyes and seeing some dromedaries and a dust on the Iconian road, Look, dear child, said she, yonder come mer chants from Iconinm 3 if, therefore, thou wilt go with me without delay, thou wilt see their stores of pretty things, and perchance Ammiane will buy thee somewhat.
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