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While the , Archias's white house had beco ruins Hundreds of ration, but no one saw the statue of Demeter, which had been removed from Hermon's studio just in ti teoddess

It was rumoured that the divinity had saved her own statue by a miracle; Pamaut, the police officer, said that he had seen her hiht, she soared upward on the sist and the nomarch used every means in their power to capture the robbers, but without the least success

As it had become known that Paseth, Gula's husband, had cast off his wife because she had gone to Heristrates believed that the attack had been made by the Bia the assault, and the innocence of the others could also be proved

Since, for two entire years, piracy had entirely ceased in this neighbourhood, no one thought of corsairs, and the bodies of the incendiaries having been consumed by the flames with the white house, it could not be ascertained to what class the ed

The blinded sculptor could only testify that one of the robbers was a negro, or at any rate had had his face blackened, and that the size of another had appeared to hiave rise to the fable that, during the terrible storm of the previous clay, Hades had opened and spirits of darkness had rushed into the studio of the Greek betrayer

The strategist, it is true, did not believe such tales, but the superstition of the Biamites, who, moreover, aided the Greeks reluctantly to punish a crime which threatened to involve their own countrymen, put obstacles in the way of his measures

Not until he heard of Ledscha's disappearance, and was informed by the priest of Ne box of the temple shortly after the attack, did he arrive at a conjecture not very far from the real state of affairs; only it was still incomprehensible to him what body of irl's vengeful plan

On the second day after the fire, the epistrategus of the whole Delta, who had accidentally coalley of the corammateus of the Dionysian artists, the Lady Thyone, Daphne, and her companion Chrysilla