Note 084
The Christians and Pagans agreed in believing that the
sedition of Antioch was excited by the daemons. A gigantic
woman (says Sozomen, l. vii. c. 23) paraded the streets with
a scourge in her hand. An old man, says Libanius (Orat. xii.
p. 396), transformed himself into a youth, then a boy, etc.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
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