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Not even the faintest shadow dimmed it until Soteles, his fellow-student at Rhodes, who sustained hile to prefer truth to beauty, greeted hiht recover his lost sight as warmly as his predecessors He praised the Demeter, too, but added that this was not the place to say what he missed in her Yet that she did lack it awakened in him an eave the followers of the ancients a right to nuret must refer to the head of his Demeter Yet surely it was not his fault that Daphne's features bore the i kindness which he hi him, had often condemned as weak and characterless

The correctness of his belief was instantly proved to hihly praised Euphranor, who spoke of the Demeter's countenance arm admiration And how ardently the poets Theocritus and Zenodotus extolled his work to the skies!

Amid so much laudation, one faint word of dissatisfaction vanished like a drop of blood that falls into a clear stream

The welcome concluded with a final chant by the chorus, and continued to echo in Hermon's ears as he entered his uncle's chariot and drove aith him, croith laurel and intoxicated as if by fiery wine

Oh, if he could only have seen his fellow-citizens who so eagerly expressed their good will, their sympathy, their admiration! But the black and coloured ure, not even that of the woman he loved, who, he now learned for the first ti the priestesses of Deladdened by the sound of her voice, the clasp of her hand, the faint fragrance of violets exhaling from her fair hair, which he had often remembered with so much pleasure when alone in Tennis; but the time to devote himself to her fully and completely had not yet come, for what , delightful, and entertaining awaited him immediately!

The Queen's envoy had expressed his mistress's desire to receive the creator of the Demeter, the Ephebi and his fellow-artists had invited hiive in his honour, and on the way Archias informed him that many of his wealthy friends in the Macedonian Council expected that he, the honoured hero of the day, would adorn with his presence a banquet in their houses