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Updated: June 10, 2025
The Achæan Lykon proposed that they should extort a contribution of no less than 3000 staters of Kyzikus from the inhabitants of Herakleia: another man immediately outbid this proposition, and proposed that they should require 10,000 staters a full month's pay for the army. It was moved that Cheirisophus and Xenophon should go to the Herakleots as envoys with this demand.
"He is sleeping," said Mefres. "Is this not wonderful?" "If he is not feigning." "Punch him, stick him, burn him even," said Mefres. Herhor drew from under his white robe a dagger and pointed it as if to strike Lykon between the eyes, but the Greek did not move, even his eyelids did not quiver. "Look!" said Mefres, holding the crystal up to Lykon. "Dost Thou see the man who carried off Kama?"
"O wretch, is it thou? Go to the guard house!" It was Lykon. Ramses seized him by the neck; the Greek hissed and knelt on the ground. At the same moment the pharaoh felt a sharp pain in the left side of his stomach. "Dost Thou bite too?" cried Ramses. He seized the Greek with both hands, and when he heard the cracking of his broken spine he hurled him off in disgust.
The second group of persons came up; among them there was a discussion, "How can even thou, worthiness, suppose that some one has entered?" asked a voice quivering with anger. "All the entrances are guarded, especially now. And even if any one stole in it would be only to die here of hunger." "But, worthiness, see how this Lykon bears himself," answered another voice.
"Who are ye?" "Thebes," answered Lykon. Then they went out to the street unhindered, and vanished in the alleys of the foreign quarter. Two hours before daybreak drums and trumpets sounded through the city. Tutmosis was lying sunk in deep sleep, when Prince Ramses pulled his mantle, and called, "Rise, watchful leader. The regiments are marching!" Tutmosis sat up in bed and rubbed his drowsy eyes.
"On this man weighs an incomparably greater crime, he is like the heir to the throne." "And what wilt Thou do with him, worthiness?" "I will reserve him for the supreme council," said Mefres. "When the heir to the throne visits pagan temples and steals from them women, when the country is threatened with danger of war, and the power of the priests with rebellion, Lykon may be of service."
How easy for the gods to thrust a man down from the highest summits to the depths of the lowest misery! "And Lykon?" "He is a great criminal," said Pentuer; "a criminal of such kind that the earth has given few such." "I know him. He is as like me as a reflection of me in a mirror," replied Ramses. Now came a crowd of Libyans leading strange animals.
His conclusion that it was Lykon was wise and might be true, but indications were not lacking that the queen had seen Ramses. It was certain that he had returned to his chamber after midnight; he wore a tunic with white and blue stripes, he had lost his mantle. It was true that his brother was demented, and, moreover, could a mother's heart deceive her?
She put her face to his ear and whispered. The Greek listened in amazement. "Woman," said he, "Hades speaks through thee." "Yes; suspicion will be turned on him." "That is better than a dagger," said Lykon, laughing. "Never could I have come on that idea. Perhaps both would be better?" "No! Let her live. This will be my vengeance." "What a wicked soul!" whispered Lykon. "But Thou pleasest me.
When the worthy Mefres found himself in the court he commanded the priests to make ready the mounted litters, and rode away with the sleeping Lykon to Memphis. The overseers of the labyrinth, dazed by the uncommon events, looked now at one another, and now at the escort of Mefres, which was disappearing in a yellow dust cloud.
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