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Amazed at the sight, he descended into the opening, where, among

other marvels, he beheld a hollow brazen horse, having doors, at

which he stooping and looking in saw a dead body of stature, as

appeared to him, more than human, and having nothing on but a

gold ring; this he took from the finger of the dead and

reascended. Now the shepherds met together, according to custom,

that they might send their monthly report about the flocks to the

king; into their assembly he came having the ring on his finger,

and as he was sitting among them he chanced to turn the collet of

the ring inside his hand, when instantly he became invisible to

the rest of the company and they began to speak of him as if he

were no longer present. He was astonished at this, and again

touching the ring he turned the collet outwards and reappeared;

he made several trials of the ring, and always with the same

result-when he turned the collet inwards he became invisible,

when outwards he reappeared.