282 THE PASSION OF tion,and to cry with groaningto the Lord. Without delay, on thatvery night,thiswas shown to me in a vision.1I saw Dinocratesgoing out from a gloomy place,where alsothere were severalothers,and he was parched and verythirsty,with a filthycountenance and pallidcolour,and the wound on hisfacewhich he had when he died. This Dinocrateshad been my brotherafterthe flesh,sevenyearsof age,who died miserablywith disease— his face being so eaten out with cancer,thathisdeath caused repugnance to allmen. For him I had made my prayer, and between him and me there was a large interval,2so that neither of us could approach to the other. And moreover,in the same place where Dinocrateswas, therewas a poolfullof water,having itsbrinkhigher than was the statureof the boy ; and Dino cratesraisedhimselfup as if to drink. And I was grieved that,although that pool held water,still,on account of the heightof itsbrink,he couldnot drink. And I was aroused, and knew that my brotherwas in suffering.But I trusted that my prayer would bring help to his suffering;and I prayed for him every day untilwe passed over intothe prisonof the camp, forwe were to fightin the camp-show. Then was the birth-dayof Geta Caesar,and I made my prayerformy brotherday and night,groaning and weeping thathe might be grantedto me. 4. " Then, on the day on which we remained in fetters,5 thiswas shown to me. I saw that that placewhich I had formerlyobservedto be in gloom was now bright; and Dino crates,with a cleanbody wellclad,was findingrefreshment. And where therehad been a wound, I saw a scar; and that poolwhich I had before seen,[I saw now] with itsmargin loweredeven to the boy'snavel. And one drew water from the pool incessantly,and upon itsbrinkwas a gobletfilled with water; and Dinocratesdrew near and began to drink from it,and the goblet did not fail. And when he was satisfied,he went away from the water to play joyously,after the manner of children,and I awoke. Then I understood thathe was translatedfrom the placeof punishment. 1 " Oromate." 2 "Diadema,"orrather"diastema." 8 "Nerrc,"