half-daric

Updated: June 5, 2025

There was something uncanny about the strange sailor; she hid away the half-daric, and related nothing of her adventure even to her confidant Cleopis. Three days later Democrates was not drinking wine at his betrothal feast, but sending this cipher letter by a swift and trusty “distance-runner” to Sparta. “Democrates to Lycon, greeting:—At Corinth I cursed you.

William Stearns Davis - A Victor of Salamis