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Jemlikha, perceiving a beam of cypress, said, "It was I who caused that beam to be placed. Under the end of it will be found a large stone of granite; it covers ten vases, equal to those that are in the King's treasury. They are filled with gold pieces of the coin of Dakianos, and each of those pieces weighs a hundred drachmas."
The troops of Dakianos acted with so much valour, and their first onset was so terrible, that the army of the Grecians had not time to recover themselves, and they were almost as soon defeated as attacked.
Dakianos would have taken his flight; but the serpent soon overtook him, grasped him round the body, and dragged him through the whole city, that all his subjects might be witnesses of his terror and of his punishment. He then conveyed him to the iron throne which he had prepared for the scene of his vengeance.
What a trouble it would be to you to dispose of them!" "That will be my business," replied the old man. "No, no," added Dakianos, "I love you too well to consent to it; besides, it would be the means to have me discovered; you would be arrested, and you could not prevent yourself from accusing me. Let us see the others." They opened the fourth apartment.
Nine young women of the greatest beauty, and magnificently adorned, followed this caravan; and eight young slaves immediately preceded Dakianos.
"If thy God could restore me the honour that has been taken from me, I would endeavour " Catnier answered him, "Go, return to Ephesus; other misfortunes attend thee there." These words threw Dakianos into the utmost confusion.
"Be moved," said he to him, "with my old age! The treasures no longer make any impression upon me, and I pretend not to them." "Truly I believe not," resumed Dakianos: "they are mine, the tablet of gold gives them to me." The old man recalled his promises to his memory. "But I will cancel them," pursued he: "in return for the obligation you have to me I only demand my life."
They arrived at the place where Dakianos had found the tablet of gold. The old man commanded him to dig the ground about twenty feet round. They soon discovered a gate of steel, and the old man told Dakianos to open it. Dakianos obeyed with such eager haste that he broke the door open with his foot, though the key was in the lock.
Their assembling themselves together in private places soon became the subject of conversation. Dakianos being informed of it, sent for them into his presence, and said to them, "Do you adore another God beside me?" They contented themselves with answering him, "We adore the Sovereign Master of the world."
"It is too much," cried Dakianos, retiring; and immediately, with rage and despair in his heart, he commanded all his troops, and all the inhabitants of Ephesus, to bring each of them a faggot, and see his orders executed.
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