9. The philosopher (Fragment, p. 288) ridicules the iron
chains, etc., of these solitary fanatics (see Tillemont,
Mem. Eccles. tom. ix. p. 661, 662), who had forgot that man
is by nature a gentle and social animal, *****. The Pagan
supposes that because they had renounced the gods, they were
possessed and tormented by evil daemons.