Josaphat · Atlas

in the texts

Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

Son and heir of King Abenner, isolated from suffering and religion per the astrologer's prophecy.

Filled with the greatest joy at the birth of the child, the king named him Josaphat;

Nevertheless, in a city set apart he built a very beautiful palace and skillfully wrought splendid dwellings, and there he set the boy to live, after the completion of his early childhood;

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Now the king's son, of whom from the beginning the account set out to speak, being shut up without going out in the palace built for him,

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