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Stephanion, a Greek wo about her

So he cautiously turned the conversation to the spinner Arachne, and when Stephanion entered into it, admitted that he, too, was curious to learn in ay the sculptors would represent her

"Yes," replied the maid, "my mistress has more than once racked her brains over that, and Archias too Perhaps they will carve her as a girl at work in the house of her father Idmon, the purple dyer of Colophon"

"Never," replied Bias in a tone of dissent "Just iold and ivory!"

"I thought so too," said Stephanion, in apology for the foolish idea "Daphne thinks that the till model her in different ways: Myrtilus, as ht a piece just completed to the nyht her at Colophon to admire her work; but Hermon, after she aroused the wrath of Athene because she dared to weave into the hangings the love adventures of the gods withwith Leda," replied Bias as confidently as if Arachne's works were before his eyes, "and in the for over the sleeping Endymion"

"How that pleases you htly on the arht froin Athene to be blamed because she punished the weaver ith all her skill, was only aher divine kindred?"

"Certainly not," replied Bias, and Stephanion went on eagerly: "And when the great Athene, who invented weaving and protects weavers, condescended to coall must have overflowed Whoever is just will scarcely bla the audacious conqueror on the broith the weaver's shuttle"

"It is that very thing," replied Bias hted fool like e for it!--never seeht ought not to be enraged against the victor At least, so I was taught But what, I askat Her Maenads, could be less suited for imitation than tomen, one of whom strikes the other?"