Before sunrise the wind changed.

Heavy clouds bore down from the north, darkening the clear sky of Alexandria.

By the time the market was filling it was raining in torrents, and a cold breeze blew over the town from the lake.

Philostratus had only allowed himself a short time for sleep, sitting till long after midnight over his history of Apolonius of Tyana.

His aim was to prove, by the example of this man, that a character not less worthy of imitation than that of the lord of the Christians might be formed in the faith of the ancients, and nourished by doctrines produced by the many-branched tree of Greek religion and philosophy.