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The tune was familiar to her in happier days, and she listened to it with tears. Her meditations were suddenly disturbed by little Zoila, who came in with a jump and a bound, to show a robe full of flowers she had gathered for the beautiful Athenian lady.
As the chariots approached the house, the loud barking of Hylax attracted the attention of Zoila, the merry little daughter of Proclus, who was playing in the fields with her brother Pterilaues. The moment the children espied a sight so unusual in that secluded place, they ran with all speed to carry tidings to the household.
The virtuous Melissa parted from them with many blessings and tears. Zoila was in an agony of childish sorrow; but she wiped her eyes with the corner of her robe, and listened, well pleased, to Eudora's parting promise of sending her a flock of marble sheep, with a painted wooden shepherd.
In addition to the trifling memorials I have already sent to Melissa, and her artless little Zoila, you will find others prepared for you to deliver, when restored to your peaceful home in Elis. To my faithful Milza I have given all the garments and household goods suited to her condition.
"What would Melissa say," exclaimed he, "if she knew that her frolicsome little plaything, Zoila, had been rude enough to throw flowers at the divine Plato." "Nay, my friend," replied the disciple of Socrates, what better could a philosopher desire, than to be pelted with roses by childhood?"
"But you cannot be the Plato that I mean," said Pterilaues; "for you carried my little sister Zoila on your shoulders and played peep with her among the vines; and when I chased you through the fields, you ran so fast that I could not catch you."
When she perceived that tears had fallen on the blossoms, she suddenly changed her merry tones, and with artless affection inquired, "What makes Dora cry?" "I wept for the husband of that beautiful Athenian lady, because he is very ill," replied the maiden. "See the flowers!" exclaimed Zoila. "It looks as if the dew was on it; but the tears will not make it grow again will they?"
After more than two hours of deep repose, he was awakened by the merry shouts of little Zoila, who had run out to meet Plato, as he came from Olympia. Philothea feared, lest the shrill noise had given him pain; but he smiled; and said, "The voice of childhood is pleasant." He expressed a wish to see his favourite philosopher; and their kindred souls held long and sweet communion together.
Artaphernes sent to Proclus four noble horses and a Bactrian camel, together with seven minae as a portion for Zoila. For Pterilaues, likewise, was a sum of money sufficient to maintain him ten years in Athens, that he might gratify his ardent desire to become the disciple of Plato.
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