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Used sorcery; magical enchantments, as a wizard.
Bewitched the people; caused them, as men in an ecstasy, to be amazed at and afraid of him.
Some great one; as if he had been God, or at least had some great favour with him, and had received some extraordinary power from him. Ecclesiastical histories speak much of him, and tell us that he had a statue set up in Rome for him, inscribed, To Simon the holy God.