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Philippus also informed him that he had just coed to fly as quickly as possible from the persecution which was inevitable; for, secure as Here sums loaned by him, which had just been found in Proclus's possession, would bear witness against him Envy and ill ould also have a share in this affair, and the usually benevolent King knew no ainst his own person was concerned So Archias intended to leave the city on one of his own ships that very day Daphne, of course, would accompany him

The prisoner listened in surprise and anxiety

His uncle driven from his secure possessions to distant lands! Daphne taken fro a tireat love! He himself on the way to expose himself to the malice and mockery of the whole city!

His heart contracted painfully, and his solicitude about his uncle's fate increased when Philippus informed him that the conspirators had been arrested at the banquet and, headed by Amyntas, the Rhodian, Chrysippus, and Proclus, had perished by the executioner's sword at sunrise

The Queen, Althea, and the other ladies were already on the way to Coptos, in Upper Egypt, whither the King had exiled them

Ptolemy had intrusted the execution of this severe punishment to Alexander's former comrade as the most trustworthy and discreet of his subjects, but rejected, with angry curtness, Philippus's attempt to uphold the innocence of his friend Archias

The old man's conversation with Hermon was interrupted by the functionaries who subjected hi time, and referred to every incident in the artist's life since his return to Alexandria The result was favourable, and the prisoner was dismissed from confinement with the learned companion of his fate

When, accompanied by Philippus, Hermon reached his house, it was so late that the artists' festival in honour of the sculptor Euphranor, who entered his seventieth year of life that day, must have already coeneral what a severe trial awaited hi hie

After hastily strengthening hiht of wine, his slave Patran, who understood writing, wished to put on the full laurel wreath; but Hermon was seized with a painful sense of dissatisfaction, and angrily waved it back

Without a single green leaf on his head, he walked, leaning on the Egyptian's aronally opposite to his house