> * Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (?) - entombed alive by Decius, they were
>
> presumed dead until they were discovered over 200 years later
Not an unreasonable presumption, I would have thought, after that
length of time. Members will of course know - or will they? One can't
presume on anything these days - the allusion in John Donne's poem,
"The Good-Morrow":
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then?
But sucked on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desir'd, and got, t'was but a dreame of thee.
Oriens.
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