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Antonius Martyr

''(c. 570)''

''Itinerary.''

''Latin.''

XXXV. — The Hospice of St. George; the Men of the Country.

Setting out from the city of Elath, we entered the desert.
Twenty miles on the road there is a castle, where is a
hospice of St. George, in which travellers find shelter and
hermits an allowance. Passing on thence into the inner
part of the desert, we came to the place of which mention
is made in the psalm, * He hath turned fertile land into
salt for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. There
we saw a few men with camels, who fled from us; and
in Jerusalem also we saw men in the streets who came
from the direction of Ethiopia, wearing shoes, having their
nostrils and ears slit, and rings upon their fingers and their
feet. We asked them, Wherefore (are you habited)
thus ?' They answered, ‘Because Trajan, the Roman
emperor, left this as a sign to us.'

'''Selected editions'''

Of the Holy Places Visited by Antonius Martyr (Circ. 560 — 570 A.D.), trans. A. Stewart (London: 1896).

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