ABSTRACT
Leontius … was coming up from the Peiraeus … when he saw some dead bodies lying near the executioner, and he felt a desire to look at them, and at the same time felt disgust at the thought, and tried to turn aside. For some time he fought with himself and put his hand over his eyes, but in the end the desire got the better of him, and opening his eyes wide with his fingers he ran forward to the bodies, saying ‘There you are, curse you, have your fill of the lovely spectacle.’
