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Updated: June 9, 2025
"I did not disturb him; for, thought I, he too is bewitched by the exquisite beauty of those virgin features. So we were both silent, till he asked, in a choked voice: 'And did you paint that? Is that, do you say, the daughter that Seleukus has just lost?
Just before sunset Seleukus, Korinna's father, came in to look upon his daughter once more. He bore his grief with dignified composure; yet by his child's bier he found it hard to be calm. But you can imagine all that. He invited me to eat, and the food they brought might have tempted a full man to excess, but I could only swallow a few mouthfuls.
The wife of Seleukus will assist you in your flight." "And you will persuade him to trust me?" urged Melissa, clinging convulsively to his arm. "I will try," answered the freedman, gloomily. Melissa, dropped his arm, for loud, manly voices were approaching down the stairs near which they stood. It was Heron and Alexander, returning from their audience with the emperor.
As Evocatus he had married the daughter of a free gardener of Seleukus, and when he was ordered to Rome to join the praetorians his wife had obtained the post of superintendent of the merchant's villa at Kanopus.
"But why, then, was this 'Blue' so vehemently hailed by the mob!" asked a Pannonian in the guard. "The mob!" retorted the Alexandrian, scornfully. "Only the Syrians and other Asiatics. Look at the Greeks. The great merchant Seleukus is the richest of them all, but splendid as his horses, his chariots, and his slaves are, he himself wears only the simple Macedonian mantle.
"And remember," he added, "there will be many weeping mothers here by to-morrow morning; but there is one I must see again, and that not as a corpse that bedizened thing in red whom I saw in the Circus I mean the wife of Seleukus, of the Kanopic way." On the wide ascent leading to the Serapeum the praetorians stood awaiting Caesar's commands.
My own ship, the 'Berenike and Korinna' Seleukus gave it to me and my daughter is ready to start. My sister lives in Carthage. Her husband, the first man in the city, is my friend. You will find protection and shelter in their house." "And how about our father and Philip?" interrupted Alexander. "If we follow your advice, it is certain death to them!" The matron laughed scornfully.
"If I were not forced to lie here like a dead donkey, I would soon find her," sighed Caesarion. "Night or day, she is never out of my mind. I have already spent everything I possessed in the search. Yesterday I sent for the steward Seleukus. What is the use of being my mother's son, and the fat little fellow isn't specially scrupulous! He will do nothing, yet there must be gold enough.
"If I were not forced to lie here like a dead donkey, I would soon find her," sighed Caesarion. "Night or day, she is never out of my mind. I have already spent everything I possessed in the search. Yesterday I sent for the steward Seleukus. What is the use of being my mother's son, and the fat little fellow isn't specially scrupulous! He will do nothing, yet there must be gold enough.
She started up with a vehement movement, and exclaimed, in angry excitement: "Seleukus might have prevented such an outrage! Oh, I know that sorrowing father's heart! Fear, vanity, ambition, love of pleasure " "But consider," Johanna broke in, "to cross Caesar's wish is to forfeit life!" "Then he should have died!" replied the matron, with stern decision. Before sunrise the wind changed.
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