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In spite of the surrounding glooreeting he shouted told her that it was Hermon's slave, Pias, a Biahbours ere his relatives and had sharply rebuffed when he ventured to accost her e

True, in his childhood this man had lived near Tennis as the son of a free papyrus raiser, but when still a lad was sold into slavery in Alexandria with his father, who had been seized for taking part in an insurrection against the last king

In the service of Areluas, his present iven him to his nephew, and as the slave of the i but cruel sculptor, Here, but was still far ly attached to his Biamite race than to the Greek, to whoed, but who had robbed him and his family of freedom

The man of forty did not lack htful and often led hiurative turns of speech, which were by no means intended as jests, he had been called by his first e of Priene

In the house of Hermon, who associated with the best artists in Alexandria, he had picked up all sorts of knowledge and gladly welcohest desire was to win esteehly He had no secrets froood will

Bias hadbeauty in Alexandria, in whom the sculptor had seen a desirable model, to his studio, even under the most difficult circumstances; but he was vexed to find that his hter of one of thehis own people He knew, too, that the Biauarded the honour of their woaan to offer vows of love to Ledscha

So it was an extremely welco his master in vain

In reply to her inquiry whether it was the aristocrat who had just arrived who kept Herht, but added that the gods were above even kings, and his ed to yield to the Alexandrian's will