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Updated: June 4, 2025
'Because I had learned the conversion of Apaecides to the Christian faith because I knew that on that spot he was to meet the fierce Olinthus because they were to meet there to discuss plans for unveiling the sacred mysteries of our goddess to the people and I was there to detect, in order to defeat them. 'Hast thou told living ear what thou didst witness?
He sought primarily to impress her with his store of unfamiliar knowledge. She, in turn, admired him for his learning, and felt grateful to him for his guardianship. Apaecides, docile and mild, with a soul peculiarly alive to religious fervour, Arbaces placed amongst the priests of Isis, and under the special care of a creature of his own, named Calenus.
Apaecides, lifting his eyes, caught through the aperture in the awning a glimpse of the face of one of the inmates of that gay bark it was the face of Ione. The lovers were embarked on the excursion at which we have been made present. The priest sighed, and once more sunk back upon his seat.
Hast thou laid flowers at the feet of the dead? Ah! thy hand is cold hark yet! hast thou taken the awful vow? 'Who art thou, whence comest thou, pale maiden? said Apaecides, fearfully: 'I know thee not; thine is not the breast on which this head hath lain; I have never seen thee before. 'But thou hast heard my voice: no matter, those recollections it should shame us both to recall.
Nor was this all, the sanguine and impetuous mind of Olinthus beheld in the power of Apaecides the means of divulging to the deluded people the juggling mysteries of the oracular Isis. He thought Heaven had sent this instrument of his design in order to disabuse the eyes of the crowd, and prepare the way, perchance, for the conversion of a whole city.
Calenus had often been employed by him in various religious missions to the neighboring cities. On some such errand he could now assert that he had been sent, with offerings to the shrines of Isis at Herculaneum and Neapolis, placatory of the goddess for the recent murder of her priest Apaecides.
Hot words passed between them, and stung by the scorn of the youth, he stabbed him into the heart with his stylus. At this moment Glaucus came along. Quick as thought the Egyptian struck the already half-senseless Greek to the ground, and steeping his stylus in the blood of Apaecides, and recovering his own, called loudly for help. The next moment he was accusing Glaucus of the crime.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Olinthus did not then suffer Apaecides thus easily to escape him.
Something, I say, there was in this scene which peculiarly affected Apaecides; and, in truth, it is difficult to conceive a ceremony more appropriate to the religion of benevolence, more appealing to the household and everyday affections, striking a more sensitive chord in the human breast.
As he there stood awaiting the coming of those his voice still continued to summons, perhaps some remorse, some compunctious visitings for despite his crimes he was human haunted the breast of the Egyptian; the defenceless state of Glaucus his wandering words his shattered reason, smote him even more than the death of Apaecides, and he said, half audibly, to himself: 'Poor clay! poor human reason; where is the soul now?
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