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GIANTS (meaning by these, men of another nation) shall be 

 entirely expelled, being agitated by their own avenging furies. If, 

 however, some remains of the sedition should still exist, and 

 the whole should not be at once extinguished, but Typhos 

 should still remain in the seat of government, nevertheless 

 do not despair of the Gods. The following also is another 

 symbol for you. When we shall purify the air which sur- 

 rounds the earth, and which is defiled with the breath of the im- 

 pious, with fire and water, then the punishment of the rest will 

 also follow, and then immediately expect a better order of things, 

 Typhos being removed. For we expel such- like prodigies by the 

 devastation of fire and thunder. In consequence of this, the 

 stranger considered that to be a felicitous circumstance, 

 which had before appeared to him to be dreadful, and ne 

 longer bore with molestation a necessary continuance in 

 life, through which he would be an eye-witness of the advent 

 of the Gods ; for it exceeded the power of human sagacity to 

 conjecture, that so powerful a multitude as were then col- 

 lected together in arms, and who even in time of peace were 

 by law obliged to be armed, should be vanquished without 

 any opposition. He considered with himself, therefore,, how 

 these things could, be accomplished, for they appeared to 

 surpass the power of reason. But after no great length of 

 time, a certain depraved fragment of religion, and an adultera- 

 tion of divine worship, like that of money, as it were, prevailed, 

 which the ancient law exterminated from cities, shutting the doors 

 against impiety, and expelling it to a great distance from the 

 walls. Typhos, however, did not himself introduce this im- 

 piety, for he feared the Egyptian multitude,butfor this purpose 

 called in the assistance of the Barbarians, and erected a tem- 

 ple in the city, having previously subverted the laws of his 

 country. When these things, therefore, came to pass, the 

 stranger began to think that this was the event which divi- 



