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Updated: May 4, 2025
Burn, flame simmer herb swelter toad I cursed him, and he shall be cursed! On that night, and at the same hour which witnessed the dark and unholy interview between Arbaces and the Saga, Apaecides was baptized. 'AND you have the courage then, Julia, to seek the Witch of Vesuvius this evening; in company, too, with that fearful man?
You listen to me rapt and intent the light begins to dawn upon you. Apaecides remained silent, but the changes rapidly passing over his speaking countenance betrayed the effect produced upon him by the words of the Egyptian words made tenfold more eloquent by the voice, the aspect, and the manner of the man.
He passed the more populous streets; and, pursuing mechanically the way to Ione's house, he traversed a more deserted quarter, and entered now the lonely grove of Cybele, in which Apaecides had held his interview with Olinthus.
He did not hesitate then to appeal to all the new-kindled enthusiasm of Apaecides, to arouse his courage, and to stimulate his zeal. They met, according to previous agreement, the evening after the baptism of Apaecides, in the grove of Cybele, which we have before described.
That which thou art, thou feelest in thy veins: that which thou shalt be, survey! With this he pointed to a recess, and the eyes of Apaecides, following the gesture, beheld on a pedestal, placed between the statues of Bacchus and Idalia, the form of a skeleton. 'Start not, resumed the Egyptian; 'that friendly guest admonishes us but of the shortness of life.
And the stars which studded the transparent azure rolled rapidly as they shone, while the music, that again woke with a livelier and lighter sound, seemed to imitate the melody of the joyous spheres. 'Oh! what miracle is this, Arbaces, said Apaecides in faltering accents. 'After having denied the gods, art thou about to reveal to me...
They imagined the heathen divinities to be evil spirits they transplanted to Italy and to Greece the gloomy demons of India and the East; and in Jupiter or in Mars they shuddered at the representative of Moloch or of Satan. Apaecides had not yet adopted formally the Christian faith, but he was already on the brink of it.
And though she detained him as long as she decorously could do, no change took place in his manner. 'But to-morrow, thought she, exultingly recovering her disappointment 'to-morrow, alas for Glaucus! Alas for him, indeed! RESTLESS and anxious, Apaecides consumed the day in wandering through the most sequestered walks in the vicinity of the city.
For Apaecides the Egyptian felt nothing but contempt; the youth was to him but an instrument that might be used by him in bending lone to his will. But the mind of Ione, no less than the beauty of her form, appealed to Arbaces. With her by his side, his willing slave, he saw no limit to the heights his ambition might soar to.
No, Apaecides: all that is brightest in our hearts is that very credulity which peoples the universe with gods. Ione answered as a believer in the poesy of the old mythology would answer. We may judge by that reply how obstinate and hard the contest which Christianity had to endure among the heathens.
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