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Philothea, who during this scene had wept like an infant, laid her hand beseechingly on his arm, and added, "Son of Chaerilaues, remember that was the only interview." Philaemon shook his head mournfully, as he replied, "But I cannot forget that it was an appointed one. We can never meet again."
Pericles the more readily consented to this, because such a law at once deprived many political enemies of power. Philaemon was the son of Chaerilaues, a wealthy Athenian; but his mother had been born in Corinth, though brought to Athens during childhood.
Many believe that they who die sleep forever; but this they could not, if they had listened to words I have heard from Paralus. Son of Chaerilaues, farewell. May blessings be around thee, wheresoever thou goest, and no evil shadow cross thy threshold. Written in Elis, this thirteenth day of the increasing moon, in the month Hecatombaeon, and the close of the eighty-seventh Olympiad."
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