For, as it happens to every one who from childhood onward has always been on his legs, and in foreign lands, I have also encountered on my path many strange and dangerous spirits; above all, however, and again and again, the one of whom I have just spoken: in fact, no less a personage than the God the great equivocator and tempter, to whom, as you know, I once offered in all secrecy and reverence my first fruits the last, as it seems to me, who has offered a to him, for I have found no one who could understand what I was then doing.