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He allowed Mazaea some time for rest, and completed the whole journey from Machlyene to Scythia on the third day; his horse stood still for a few moments after arrival, and then dropped down dead.
'Sire, he said, 'give me your daughter Mazaea to wife: if wealth and possessions count for anything, I am a fitter husband for her than these. Leucanor was surprised: he knew that Arsacomas was but a poor commoner among the Scythians.
This Arsacomas had been on a visit to Leucanor, king of Bosphorus, in connexion with the tribute annually paid to us by that country, which tribute was then three months overdue; and while there he had fallen in love with Mazaea, the king's daughter. Mazaea was an extremely fine woman, and Arsacomas, seeing her at the king's table, had been much smitten with her charms.
Macentes had completed the resemblance by cropping his hair to the right shortness, and was thus enabled to pass for a kinsman of Mastira and Mazaea. 'And now, Adyrmachus, he concluded, 'I am ready to go with you to Bosphorus; or, if you prefer it, I will escort your bride. 'If you will do the latter, replied Adyrmachus, 'I shall be particularly obliged, since you are Mazaea's kinsman.
'Behold, said Macentes, presenting Mazaea to Arsacomas, 'behold your promised bride. Arsacomas, amazed at so unexpected a sight, was beginning to express his gratitude: but Macentes bade him hold his peace. 'You speak, he exclaimed, 'as if you and I were different persons, when you thank me for what I have done.
It seems that herds and lumbering waggons and superfluous beakers are to count for more than brave men. My friends, I am doubly wounded: I love Mazaea, and I cannot forget the humiliation which I have suffered before so many witnesses, and in which you are both equally involved. Ever since we were united in friendship, are we not one flesh? are not our joys and our sorrows the same?
If you go with us, it is but one horseman more; whereas no one could be such a suitable escort for my wife. And so it was settled: Adyrmachus rode off, and left Mazaea, who was still a maid, in the care of Macentes.
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