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+ARACHNE
+
+By Georg Ebers
+
+Volume 6.
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+At the third hour after sunrise a distinguished assemblage of people
+gathered at the landing place east of the Temple of Poseidon in the great
+harbour of Alexandria.
+
+Its members belonged to the upper classes, for many had come in carriages
+and litters, and numerous pedestrians were accompanied by slaves bearing
+in delicately woven baskets and cornucopias a laurel wreath, a papyrus
+crown, or bright-hued flowers.
+
+The most aristocratic among the gentlemen had gathered on the western
+side of the great sanctuary, between the cella and the long row of Doric
+columns which supported the roof of the marble temple.
+
+The Macedonian Council of the city was already represented by several of
+its members.  Among their number was Archias, Daphne's father, a man of
+middle height and comfortable portliness, from whose well-formed,
+beardless face looked forth a pair of shrewd eyes, and whose quick
+movements revealed the slight irritability of his temperament.
+
+Several members of the Council and wealthy merchants surrounded him,
+while the grammateus Proclus first talked animatedlv with other
+government officials and representatives of the priesthood, and then with
+Archias.  The head of the Museum, who bore the title of "high priest,"
+had also appeared there with several members of this famous centre of the
+intellectual life of the capital.  They shared the shade of this part of
+the temple with distinguished masters of sculpture and painting,
+architecture and poetry, and conversed together with the graceful
+animation of Greeks endowed with great intellectual gifts.
+
+Among them mingled, distinguishable neither by costume nor language,
+a number of prominent patrons of art in the great Jewish community.
+Their principal, the alabarch, was talking eagerly with the philosopher
+Hegesias and the Rhodian leech Chrysippus; Queen Arsinoe's favourite,
+whom at Althea's instigation she had sent with Proclus to receive the
+returning traveller.
+
+Sometimes all gazed toward the mouth of the harbour, where the expected
+ship must soon pass the recently completed masterpiece of Sostratus, the
+towering lighthouse, still shining in its marble purity.
+
+Soon many Alexandrians also crowded the large platform in front of the
+Temple of Poseidon, and the very wide marble staircase leading from it to
+the landing place.
+
+Beneath the bronze statues of the Dioscuri, at the right and left of the
+topmost step, had also gathered the magnificent figures of the Phebi and
+the younger men from the wrestling school of Timagetes, with garlands on
+their curling locks, as well as many younger artists and pupils of the
+older masters.
+
+The statues of the gods and goddesses of the sea and their lofty
+pedestals, standing at the sides of the staircase, cast upon the marble
+steps, gleaming in the radiance of the morning sun, narrow shadows, which
+attracted the male and female chorus singers, who, also wearing beautiful
+garlands, had come to greet the expected arrival with solemn chants.
+
+Several actors were just coming from rehearsal in the theatre of
+Dionysus, east of the Temple of Poseidon, of which, like all the stages
+in the city, Proclus was chief manager.
+
+A pretty dancing girl, who hung on the arm of the youngest, extended her
+hand with a graceful gesture toward the staircase, and asked:
+
+"Whom can they be expecting there?  Probably some huge new animal for the
+Museum which has been caught somewhere for the King, for yonder stiff
+wearer of a laurel crown, who throws his head back as though he would
+like to eat the Olympians and take the King for a luncheon into the
+bargain, is Straton, the denier of the gods, and the little man with the
+bullethead is the grammarian Zoilus."
+
+"Of course," replied her companion.  "But there, too, is Apollodorus, the
+alabarch of the Jews, and the heavy money-bag Archias--"
+
+"Why look at them!" cried the younger mime.  "It's far better worth while
+to stretch your neck for those farther in front.  They are genuine
+friends of the Muses--the poets Theocritus and Zenodotus."
+
+"The great Athene, Apollo, and all his nine Pierides, have sent their
+envoys," said the older actor pathetically, "for there, too, are the
+sculptors Euphranor and Chares, and the godlike builder of the
+lighthouse, Sostratus in person."
+
+"A handsome man," cried the girl flute-player, "but vain, I tell you,
+vain--"
+
+"Self-conscious, you ought to say," corrected her companion.
+
+"Certainly," added the older actor, patting his smooth cheeks and chin
+with a rose he held in his hand.   Who can defend himself against the
+highest merit, self-knowledge?  But the person who is to have this
+reception, by the staff of Dionysus!  if modesty flies away from him like
+the bird from a girl, it ought  Just look there!  The tall, broad-
+shouldered fellow yonder is Chrysippus, the right hand of Arsinoe, as our
+grammateus Proclus is her left.  So probably some prince is expected."
+
+"The gentlemen of the Museum and the great artists yonder would not stir
+a foot, far less lose so precious a morning hour, for any mere wearer of
+a crown or sceptre," protested the other actor; "it must be--"
+
+"That the King or the Queen command it," interrupted the older player.
+"Only Arsinoe is represented here.  Or do you see any envoy of Ptolemy?
+Perhaps they will yet arrive.  If there were ambassadors of the great
+Roman Senate--"
+
+"Or," added the dancer, "envoys from King Antiochus.  But--goose that I
+am!--then they would not be received here, but in the royal harbour at
+the Lochias.  See if I don't prove to be right!  Divine honours are to be
+paid to some newly attracted hero of the intellect.  But--just follow my
+finger!  There--yonder--it comes floating along at the left of the island
+of Antirrhodus.  That may be his galley!  Magnificent!  Wonderfully
+beautiful!  Brilliant!  Like a swan!  No, no, like a swimming peacock!
+And the silver embroidery on the blue sails!  It glitters and sparkles
+like stars in the azure sky."
+
+Meanwhile the elder actor, shading his eyes with his hand, had been
+gazing at the harbour, where, amid the innumerable vessels, the expected
+one, whose sails were just being reefed, was steered by a skilful hand.
+Now he interrupted the blond beauty with the exclamation: "It is
+Archias's Proserpina!  I know it well."  Then, in a declamatory tone, he
+continued: "I, too, was permitted on the deck of the glittering vessel,
+lightly rocked by the crimson waves, to reach my welcome goal; as the
+guest of peerless Archias, I mean.  The most magnificent festival in his
+villa!  There was a little performance there in which Mentor and I
+allowed ourselves to be persuaded to take part.  But just see how the
+beautiful ship uses the narrow passage between the two triremes, as if it
+had the bloodleech's power of contraction!  But to return to the festival
+of Archias: the oyster ragout served there, the pheasant pasties--"
+
+Here he interrupted himself, exclaiming in surprise: "By the club of
+Hercules, the Proserpina is to be received with a full chorus!  And there
+is the owner himself descending the stairs!  Whom is she bringing?"
+
+"Come! come!" cried the dancing girl to her companion, dragging him after
+her, "I shall die of curiosity."
+
+The singing and shouting of many voices greeted the actors as they
+approached the platform of the Temple of Poseidon.
+
+When from this spot the dancer fixed her eyes upon the landing place, she
+suddenly dropped her companion's arm, exclaiming: "It is the handsome
+blind sculptor, Hermon, the heir of the wealthy Myrtilus.  Do you learn
+this now for the first time, you jealous Thersites?  Hail, hail, divine
+Hermon!  Hail, noble victim of the ungrateful Olympians!  Hail to thee,
+Hermon, and thy immortal works!  Hail, hail, hail!"
+
+Meanwhile she waved her handkerchief with frenzied eagerness, as if she
+could thus force the blind man to see her, and a group of actors whom
+Proclus, the grammateus of the Dionysian arts, had sent here to receive
+Hermon worthily, followed her example.
+
+But her cries were drowned by the singing of the chorus and by thousands
+of shouting voices, while Hermon was embraced by Archias on board the
+galley, and then, by his guidance, stepped on shore and ascended the
+staircase of the Temple of Poseidon.
+
+Before the ship entered the harbour, the artist had had a large goblet of
+unmixed wine given to him, that he might conquer the emotion that had
+overpowered him.
+
+Though his blind eyes did not show him even the faintest outline of a
+figure, he felt as if he was flooded with brilliant sunshine.
+
+While the Proserpina was bearing him past the lighthouse, Gras told him
+that they had now reached the great harbour, and at the same time he
+heard the shouts, whistles, signals, and varying sounds of the landing
+place with its crowded shipping, and of the capital.
+
+His blood surged in his veins, and before his mind rose the vision of the
+corn-flower blue sky, mirrored in the calm surface of the bluest of seas.
+The pharos built by Sostratus towered in dazzling whiteness above the
+tide, and before him rose the noble temple buildings, palaces, and
+porticoes of the city of Alexandria, with which he was familiar, and
+before and between them statue after statue of marble and bronze, the
+whole flooded with radiant golden light.
+
+True, darkness sometimes swallowed this wonderful picture, but an effort
+of the will was sufficient to show it to him again.
+
+"The Temple of Poseidon!" cried  Gras.  "The Proserpina is to land at the
+foot of the steps."  And now Hermon listened to the sounds from the
+shore, whose hum and buzz transported him into the midst of the long-
+missed city of commerce, knowledge, and arts.
+
+Then the captain's shouts of command fell imperiously upon his ears, the
+strokes of the oars ceased, their blades sank with a loud splash into the
+water, and at the same instant from the temple steps Hermon was greeted
+by the solemn notes of the chorus, from whose rhythm his own name rang
+forth again and again like so many shouts of victory.
+
+He thought his heart would fairly burst through his arched chest, and the
+passionate violence of its throbbing did not lessen when Gras exclaimed:
+"Half Alexandria has assembled to greet you.  Ah, if you could only see
+it!  How the kerchiefs are waving!  Laurel after laurel in every hand!
+All the distinguished people in the capital have gathered on the sacred
+soil of the Temple of Poseidon.  There is Archias, too; there are the
+artists and the famous gentlemen of the Museum, the members of the
+Ephebi, and the priests of the great gods."
+
+Hermon listened with his hand pressed on his breast, and while doing so
+the power of his imagination showed the vast, harmoniously noble
+structure of the many-pillared Temple of Poseidon, surrounded by as many
+thousands as there were in reality hundreds.  From all parts of the
+sanctuary, even from the tops of the roofs, he beheld laurel branches and
+kerchiefs waving and tossing, and wreaths flung on the ground before him.
+If this picture was correct, the whole city was greeting him, headed by
+the men whom he honoured as great and meritorious, and in front of them
+all Daphne, with drooping head, full of feminine grace and heart-winning
+goodness.
+
+While the chorus continued their song, and the welcoming shouts grew
+louder, the brilliant picture faded away, but in return he felt friendly
+arms clasp him.  First Archias, then Proclus, and after him a succession
+of fellow-artists-the greatest of all--drew him into a warm embrace.
+
+Finally he felt himself led away, placed his feet as his Uncle Archias
+whispered directions, and as they gropingly obeyed them ascended the
+temple steps and stood in utter darkness upon the platform listening to
+the speeches which so many had prepared.
+
+All the distinguished men in the city expressed their sympathy, their
+pity, their admiration, their hopes, or sent assurances of them to him.
+The Rhodian Chrysippus, despatched by the Queen, delivered the wreath
+which the monarch bestowed, and informed Hermon, with her greetings, that
+Arsinoe deemed his Demeter worthy of the laurel.
+
+The most famous masters of his art, the great scholars from the Museum,
+the whole priesthood of Demeter, which included Daphne, the servants of
+Apollo, his dear Ephebi, the comrades of his physical exercises--all whom
+he honoured, admired, loved-loaded him with praises and good wishes, as
+well as the assurance of their pride in numbering him among them.
+
+No form, no colour from the visible world, penetrated the darkness
+surrounding him, not even the image of the woman he loved.  Only his ears
+enabled him to receive the praises, honours, congratulations lavished
+here and, though he sometimes thought he had received enough, he again
+listened willingly and intently when a new speaker addressed him in warm
+words of eulogy.  What share compassion for his unprecedentedly sorrowful
+fate had in this extravagantly laudatory and cordial greeting, he did not
+ask; he only felt with a throbbing heart that he now stood upon a summit
+which he had scarcely ventured to hope ever to attain.  His dreams of
+outward success which had not been realized, because he deemed it treason
+to his art to deviate from the course which he believed right and best
+adapted to it, he now, without having yielded to the demands of the old
+school, heard praised as his well-earned possessions.
+
+He felt as if he breathed the lighter, purer air of the realms of the
+blessed, and the laurel crown which the Queen's envoy pressed upon his
+brow, the wreaths which his fellow-artists presented to him by hands no
+less distinguished than those of the great sculptor Protogenes, and
+Nicias, the most admired artist after the death of Apelles, seemed, like
+the wings on the hat and shoes of Hermes, messenger of the gods, to raise
+him out of himself and into the air.
+
+Darkness surrounded him, yet a bright dazzling light issued from his soul
+and illuminated his whole being with the warm golden radiance of the sun.
+
+Not even the faintest shadow dimmed it until Soteles, his fellow-student
+at Rhodes, who sustained him with ardent earnestness in the struggle to
+prefer truth to beauty, greeted him.
+
+He welcomed him and wished that he might recover his lost sight as warmly
+as his predecessors.  He praised the Demeter, too, but added that this
+was not the place to say what he missed in her.  Yet that she did lack it
+awakened in him an emotion of pain, for this, Hermon's last work,
+apparently gave the followers of the ancients a right to number him in
+their ranks.
+
+His cautious expression of regret must refer to the head of his Demeter.
+Yet surely it was not his fault that Daphne's features bore the impress
+of that gentle, winning kindness which he himself and Soteles, imitating
+him, had often condemned as weak and characterless.
+
+The correctness of his belief was instantly proved to him by the address
+of gray-haired, highly praised Euphranor, who spoke of the Demeter's
+countenance with warm admiration.  And how ardently the poets Theocritus
+and Zenodotus extolled his work to the skies!
+
+Amid so much laudation, one faint word of dissatisfaction vanished like a
+drop of blood that falls into a clear stream.
+
+The welcome concluded with a final chant by the chorus, and continued to
+echo in Hermon's ears as he entered his uncle's chariot and drove away
+with him, crowned with laurel and intoxicated as if by fiery wine.
+
+Oh, if he could only have seen his fellow-citizens who so eagerly
+expressed their good will, their sympathy, their admiration!  But the
+black and coloured mist before his eyes revealed no human figure, not
+even that of the woman he loved, who, he now learned for the first time
+from her father, had appeared among the priestesses of Demeter to greet
+him.
+
+Doubtless he was gladdened by the sound of her voice, the clasp of her
+hand, the faint fragrance of violets exhaling from her fair hair, which
+he had often remembered with so much pleasure when alone in Tennis; but
+the time to devote himself to her fully and completely had not yet come,
+for what manifold and powerful impressions, how much that was elevating,
+delightful, and entertaining awaited him immediately!
+
+The Queen's envoy had expressed his mistress's desire to receive the
+creator of the Demeter, the Ephebi and his fellow-artists had invited him
+to a festival which they desired to give in his honour, and on the way
+Archias informed him that many of his wealthy friends in the Macedonian
+Council expected that he, the honoured hero of the day, would adorn with
+his presence a banquet in their houses.
+
+What a rich, brilliant life awaited him in spite of his blindness!  When
+he entered his uncle's magnificent city home, and not only all the
+servants and clients of the family, but also a select party of ladies and
+gentlemen greeted him with flowers and hundreds of other tokens of
+affection and appreciation, he gave himself up without reserve to this
+novel excess of fame and admiration.
+
+Notwithstanding his blindness, he felt, after the burns on his face had
+healed, thoroughly well, as strong as a giant--nay, more vigorous and
+capable of enjoyment than ever.  What prevented him from revelling to the
+full in the superabundant gifts which Fate, recently so cruel, now
+suddenly cast into his lap with lavish kindness?
+
+Yet many flattering and pleasant things as he had experienced that day,
+he was far from feeling satiety.  On entering the hall of the men in his
+uncle's dwelling, the names of famous men and proud beauties had been
+repeated to him.  Formerly they had taken little notice of him, yet now
+even the most renowned received him like an Olympian victor.
+
+What did all these vain women really care for him?  Yet their favour was
+part of the triumph whose celebration he must permit to-day.  His heart
+held but one being for whom it yearned, and with whom thus far he had
+been able only to exchange a few tender greetings.
+
+The time for a long conversation had not yet arrived, but he asked Thyone
+to lead him to her and, while she listened anxiously, described with
+feverish animation the incidents of the last few days.  But he soon
+lowered his voice to assure her that he had not ceased to think of her
+even for a single hour, and the feeling of happiness which, in spite of
+his misfortune, had filled and lent wings to his soul, was not least due
+to the knowledge of being near her again.
+
+And her presence really benefited him almost as much as he had
+anticipated during the hours of solitary yearning in Tennis; he felt it
+a great favour of Fate to be permitted to strive to possess her, felt
+even during the delirium of this reception that he loved her.  What a
+tremendous longing to clasp her at once in his arms as his betrothed
+bride overwhelmed him; but her father's opposition to the union of his
+only child with a blind man must first be conquered, and the great
+agitation in his soul, as well as the tumult around him, seemed like a
+mockery of the quiet happiness which hovered before him when he thought
+of his marriage with Daphne.  Not until everything was calmer would the
+time come to woo her.  Until then both must be satisfied with knowing
+from each other's lips their mutual love, and he thought he perceived in
+the tone of her voice the deep emotion of her heart.
+
+Perhaps this had prevented Daphne's expressing her congratulations upon
+the success of his Demeter as eagerly and fully as he had expected.
+Painfully disturbed by her reserve, he had just attempted to induce her
+to give a less superficial opinion of his work, when the curtains of the
+dining room parted-the music of flutes, singing, and pleasant odours
+greeted him and the guests.  Archias summoned them to breakfast, and a
+band of beautiful boys, with flowers and garlands of ivy, obeyed the
+command to crown them.
+
+Then Thyone approached the newly united pair and, after exchanging a few
+words with Daphne, whispered in an agitated voice to the blind sculptor,
+over whose breast a brown-locked young slave was just twining a garland
+of roses: "Poverty no longer stands between you and the object of your
+love; is it Nemesis who even now still seals your lips?"
+
+Hermon stretched out his hand to draw her nearer to him and murmur softly
+that her counsel had aided him to break the power of the terrible
+goddess, but he grasped the empty air.  At the same time the deep voice
+of his love's father, whose opposition threatened to cloud his new
+happiness, singing, flute-playing, and the laughter of fair women greeted
+him and, only half master of his own will, he assented, by a slight bend
+of the head, to the matron's question.  A light shiver ran through his
+frame with the speed of lightning, and the Epicurean's maxim that fear
+and cold are companions darted through his brain.  But what should he
+fear?  He had endured severe trials, it is true, for the sake of
+remaining faithful to truth in art and life; but who probably ever
+reached the age of manhood without once deviating from it?  Besides, he
+was surely aware that, had he been obliged to answer Thyone in words, he
+would not have been guilty of the falsehood.  His reply had consisted of
+a slight motion of the head, and it negatived nothing; it was merely
+intended to defer for a short time the thing he most desired.
+
+Yet the rash answer weighed heavily on his mind; but it could no longer
+be recalled that day, and was believed, for Thyone whispered, "We shall
+succeed in reconciling the terrible being."
+
+Again the light tremour ran through him, but it lasted only an instant;
+for Chrysilla, the representative of the dead mistress of the house,
+whose duty it was to assign the guests their places, called to Hermon,
+"The beautiful Glycera does you the honour of choosing you for a
+neighbour" and, before the sentence was  finished, Archias himself
+seized his arm and led him to the cushions at the side of the much-
+courted beauty.
+
+The guests began the banquet in a very joyous mood.
+
+Greek gaiety, and the quick intellect and keen wit of the Alexandrians,
+combined with the choicest viands of the luxurious capital, where the
+wines and dainties of all the countries of the Mediterranean found
+sellers and buyers, and the cook's vocation was developed into a fine
+art, to spice this banquet with a hundred charms for the mind and senses.
+To-day the principal place in this distinguished circle of famous men,
+great and wealthy nobles, beautiful and aristocratic women, was awarded
+to the blind sculptor.  He was pledged by every one who had admired his
+Demeter, who compassionated his sad fate, or who desired to be agreeable
+to him or his host.
+
+Every kind remark about his person, his blindness, and his masterpiece
+was repeated to him and, after the wine and the effort to attract
+Daphne's attention and shine in the presence of his beautiful neighbour
+had heated and winged his thoughts, he found an apt reply to each
+noteworthy word.
+
+When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant
+light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing
+vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech.
+
+Glycera had asked him, at the beginning of the banquet, to tell her about
+the attack in Tennis.  Now he yielded to her wish that he should repeat
+the captivating tale to the others, and the spirits of the wine helped
+him to perform the task with such animation that his hearers listened to
+his description in breathless suspense, and many eyes rested on the
+handsome face of the great blind artist as if spellbound.
+
+When he paused, loud applause rewarded him, and as it reached him from
+every part of the spacious room, his deep, resonant voice put him in
+communication even with the more distant guests, and he might have been
+taken for the symposiarch or director of the banquet.
+
+This conspicuous position of the feted artist did not please every one,
+and a rhetorician, famed for his sharp tongue, whispered to his
+neighbour, one of Hermon's older fellow-artists, "What his eyes have lost
+seems to benefit his tongue."  The sculptor answered: "At any rate, the
+impetuous young artist might succeed better in proving himself, by its
+assistance, a good entertainer, than in creating more mediocre
+masterpieces like the Demeter."
+
+Similar remarks were made on other cushions; but when the philosopher
+Hegesias asked the famous sculptor Euphranor what he thought of Hermon's
+Demeter, the kindly old man answered, "I should laud this noble work as a
+memorable event, even if it did not mark the end, as well as the
+beginning, of its highly gifted creator's new career."
+
+Nothing of this kind was uttered near Hermon.  Everything that reached
+him expressed delight, admiration, sympathy, and hope.  At dessert the
+beautiful Glycera divided her apple, whispering as she gave him one half,
+"Let the fruit tell you what the eyes can no longer reveal, you poor and
+yet so abundantly rich darling of the gods."
+
+He murmured in reply that his happiness would awake the envy of the
+immortals if, in addition, he were permitted to feast upon the sight of
+her beauty.
+
+Had he been able to see himself, Hermon, who, as a genuine Greek, was
+accustomed to moderate his feelings in intercourse with others, would
+have endeavoured to express the emotions of joy which filled his heart
+with more reserve, and to excel his companions at the festival less
+recklessly.
+
+His enthusiastic delight carried many away with him; others, especially
+Daphne, were filled with anxious forebodings by his conduct, and others
+still with grave displeasure.
+
+Among the latter was the famous leech Erasistratus, who shared Archias's
+cushions, and had been solicited by the latter to try to restore his
+blind nephew's sight.  But the kindly physician, who gladly aided even
+the poorest sufferer, curtly and positively refused.  To devote his time
+and skill to a blind man who, under the severest of visitations, lulled
+himself so contentedly in happiness, he considered unjust to others who
+desired recovery more ardently.
+
+"When the intoxication of this unbridled strength passes away, and is
+followed by a different mood," remarked the merchant, "we will talk of
+this matter again," and the confident tone of his deep voice gave the
+simple sentence such significance that the learned leech held out his
+hand, saying: "Only where deep, earnest longing for recovery fills the
+sufferer's mind will the gods aid the physician.  We will wait for the
+change which you predict, Archias!"
+
+The guests did not disperse until late, and the best satisfied of all was
+the grammateus Proclus, who had taken advantage of the rich merchant's
+happy mood, and his own warm intercession in behalf of his nephew's work,
+to persuade Archias to advance Queen Arsinoe a large sum of money for an
+enterprise whose object he still carefully concealed.
+
+The highly honoured blind artist spent the night under his uncle's roof.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+Hermon rose from his couch the next morning alert and ready for new
+pleasures.
+
+He had scarcely left the bath when envoys from the Ephebi and the younger
+artists invited him to the festivities which they had arranged in his
+honour.  He joyously accepted, and also promised messengers from many of
+Archias's friends, who wished to have the famous blind sculptor among
+their guests, to be present at their banquets.
+
+He still felt as if he were intoxicated, and found neither disposition
+nor time for quiet reflection.  His great strength, fettered as it were
+by his loss of sight, now also began to stir.  Fate itself withheld him
+from the labour which he loved, yet in return it offered him a wealth of
+varying pleasure, whose stimulating power he had learned the day before.
+He still relished the draught from the beaker of homage proffered by his
+fellow-citizens; nay, it seemed as if it could not lose its sweetness for
+a long time.
+
+He joined the ladies before noon, and his newly awakened feeling of joy
+beamed upon them scarcely less radiantly than yesterday.  Though Thyone
+might wonder that a man pursued by Nemesis could allow himself to be
+borne along so thoughtlessly by the stream of pleasure, Daphne certainly
+did not grudge him the festal season which, when it had passed, could
+never return to the blind artist.  When it was over, he would yearn for
+the quiet happiness at her side, which gazed at him like the calm eyes of
+the woman he loved.  With her he would cast anchor for the remainder of
+his life; but first must come the period when he enjoyed the compensation
+now awarded to him for such severe sufferings.
+
+His heart was full of joy as he greeted Daphne and the Lady Thyone, whom
+he found with her; but his warm description of the happy emotion which
+had overpowered him at the abundant honours lavished upon him was
+interrupted by Archias.
+
+In his usual quick, brisk manner, he asked whether Hermon wished to
+occupy the beautiful villa with the magnificent garden on Lake Mareotis,
+inherited from Myrtilus, which could scarcely be reached in a vehicle
+from the Brucheium in less than an hour, or the house situated in the
+centre of the city, and Hermon promptly decided in favour of the latter.
+
+His uncle, and probably the ladies also, had expected the contrary.
+Their silence showed this plainly enough, and Hermon therefore added in a
+tone of explanation that later the villa would perhaps suit his condition
+better, but now he thought it would be a mistake to retire to the quiet
+which half the city was conspiring to disturb.  No one contradicted him,
+and he left the women's apartment with a slight feeling of vexation,
+which, however, was soon jested away by the gay friends who sought him.
+
+When he removed to the city house the next day, he had not yet found time
+for a serious talk with Daphne.  His uncle, who had managed the estate of
+Myrtilus, and wished to give Hermon an account of his inheritance, was
+refused by the blind artist, who assured him that he knew Archias had
+greatly increased rather than diminished his property, and thanked him
+sincerely and warmly.  In the convenient and spacious city house the
+young sculptor very soon thought he had good reason to be satisfied with
+his choice.
+
+Most of his friends were busy artists, and what loss of time every visit
+to the remote villa would have imposed upon them, what haste he himself
+would have been obliged to use to reach home from the bath, where he
+often spent many hours, from the wrestling school, from the meetings of
+fashionable people in the Paneum gardens, and at sunset by the seashore
+on the royal highway in the Brucheium.  All these places were very far
+from the villa.  It would have required whole hours, too, to reach a
+famous cookshop in the Canopus, at whose table he liked to assemble
+beloved guests or revel with his friends.  The theatre, the Odeum, most
+of the public buildings, as well as the houses of his best friends, and
+especially the beautiful Glycera, were easily reached from his city home,
+and, among the temples, that of Demeter, which he often visited to pray,
+offer sacrifices, and rejoice in the power of attraction which his statue
+of the goddess exerted upon the multitude.  It stood at the back of the
+cella in a place accessible to the priesthood alone, visible only through
+the open doors, upon a pedestal which his fellow-artists pronounced
+rather too high.  Yet his offer to have it made smaller was not accepted,
+because had it been lower the devout supplicants who stood there to pray
+could not have raised their eyes to it.
+
+It was not only at the festivals of the dead that he went to the Greek
+cemetery, where he had had a magnificent monument erected for his dead
+mother.  If his head ached after a nocturnal carouse, or the disagreeable
+alarming chill stole over him which he had felt for the first time when
+he falsely answered Thyone that he was still under the ban of Nemesis, he
+went to the family monuments, supplied them with gifts, had sacrifices
+offered to the souls of the beloved dead, and in this way sometimes
+regained a portion of his lost peace of mind.
+
+The banquet in the evening always dispelled whatever still oppressed him
+on his return home from these visits, for, though months had elapsed
+since his brilliant reception, he was still numbered, especially in
+artist circles, with the most honoured men; he, the blind man, no longer
+stood in any one's way; conversation gained energy and meaning through
+the vivacity of his fervid intellect, which seemed actually deepened by
+his blindness when questions concerning art were at issue, and from a
+modest fellow-struggler he had become a patron bestowing orders.
+
+The sculptor Soteles, who had followed his footsteps since the
+apprenticeship in Rhodes, was intrusted with the erection of the monument
+to Myrtilus in Tennis, and another highly gifted young sculptor, who
+pursued his former course, with the execution of the one to his mother.
+
+From a third he ordered a large new mixing vessel of chased silver for
+the society of Ephebi, whose members had lauded him, at the magnificent
+festival given in his honour, with genuine youthful fervour.
+
+In the designs for these works his rich and bold gift of invention and
+the power of his imagination proved their full value, and even his older
+fellow-artists followed him with sincere admiration when, in spite of his
+darkened eyes, he brought before them distinctly, and often even with the
+charcoal or wax tablet in his hand, what he had in mind.  What
+magnificent things might not this man have created had he retained his
+sight, what masterpieces might not have been expected! and his former
+works, which had been condemned as unlovely, offensive, and exaggerated,
+were now loudly admired; nay, the furious Maenads struggling on the
+ground and the Street Boy Eating Figs, which were no longer his property,
+were sold at high prices.  No meeting of artists was complete without
+Hermon, and the great self-possession which success and wealth bestowed,
+besides his remarkable talent and the energy peculiar to him, soon aided
+him to great influence among the members of his profession; nay, he would
+speedily have reached the head of their leaders had not the passionate
+impetuosity of his warlike nature led the more cautious to seek to
+restrain the powerful enthusiast.
+
+Archias's wealthy friends had no such apprehension.  To them the lauded
+blind artist was not much more than a costly dish certain to please their
+guests; yet this, too, was no trifle in social circles which spent small
+fortunes for a rare fish.
+
+At the banquets of these princes of commerce he often met Daphne, still
+more frequently the beautiful Glycera, whose husband, an old ship-owner
+of regal wealth, was pleased to see famous men harnessed to his young
+wife's chariot of victory.  Hermon's heart had little to do with the
+flirtation to which Glycera encouraged him at every new meeting, and the
+Thracian Althea only served to train his intellect to sharp debates.  But
+in this manner he so admirably fulfilled her desire to attract attention
+that she more than once pointed out to the Queen, her relative, the
+remarkably handsome blind man whose acquaintance she had made on a night
+of mad revel during the last Dionysia but one.  Althea even thought it
+necessary to win him, in whom she saw the future son-in-law of the
+wealthy Archias, for through the graminateus Proclus the merchant had
+been persuaded to advance the King's wife hundreds of talents, and
+Arsinoe cherished plans which threatened to consume other large sums.
+
+Thyrone watched Hermon's conduct with increasing indignation, while
+Daphne perceived that these women had no more power to estrange her lover
+from her than the bedizened beauties who were never absent from the
+artists' festivals.  How totally different was his intercourse with her!
+His love and respect were hers alone; yet she saw in him a soul-sick man,
+and persistently rejected Philotas, who wooed her with the same zeal as
+before, and the other suitors who were striving to win the wealthy
+heiress.  She had confessed her feelings to her father, her best friend,
+and persuaded him to have patience a little longer, and wait for the
+change which he himself expected in his nephew.
+
+This had not been difficult, for Archias loved Hermon, in spite of the
+many anxieties he had caused him, as if he were his own son and, knowing
+his daughter, he was aware that she could be happy with the man who
+possessed her heart though he was deprived of sight.
+
+The fame which Hermon had won by great genius and ability had gratified
+him more than he expressed, and he could not contradict Daphne when she
+asserted that, in spite of the aimless life of pleasure to which be
+devoted himself, he had remained the kind-hearted, noble man he had
+always been.
+
+In fact, he used, unasked and secretly, a considerable portion of his
+large revenues to relieve the distress of the poor and suffering.
+Archias learned this as the steward of his nephew's property, and when to
+do good he made new demands upon him, he gladly fulfilled them; only he
+constantly admonished the blind man to think of his own severe sufferings
+and his cure.  Daphne did the same, and he willingly obeyed her advice;
+for, loudly and recklessly as he pursued pleasure in social circles, he
+showed himself tenderly devoted to her when he found her alone in her
+father's house.  Then, as in better days, he opened his heart to her
+naturally and modestly and, though he refrained from vows of love, he
+showed her that he did not cease to seek with her, and her alone, what
+his noisy pleasures denied.  Then he also found the old tone of
+affection, and of late he came more frequently, and what he confided to
+no one else implied to her, at least by hints.
+
+Satiety and dissatisfaction were beginning to appear, and what he had
+attempted to do for the cure of his eyes had hitherto been futile.  The
+remedies of the oculists to whom he had been directed by Daphne herself
+had proved ineffectual.  The great physician Erasistratus, from whom he
+first sought help, had refrained, at her entreaty and her father's, from
+refusing to aid him, but indignantly sent him away when he persisted in
+the declaration that it would be impossible for him to remain for months
+secluded from all society and subsist for weeks on scanty fare.
+
+He would submit even to that, he assured Daphne, after she represented to
+him what he was losing by such lack of resignation, when the time of rest
+had come for which he longed, but from which many things still withheld
+him.  Yesterday the King had invited him to the palace for the first
+time, and to decline such an honour was impossible.
+
+In fact, he had long wished for this summons, because he had been
+informed that no representative of the sovereign had been present at
+his reception.  Only his wife Arsinoe had honoured him by a wreath and
+congratulations.  This lack of interest on the part of the King had
+wounded him, and the absence of an invitation from the royal connoisseur
+had cast a shadow into the midst of many a mirthful hour.  He had
+doubtless been aware what great and important affairs of state were
+claiming the conscientious sovereign just at this time, and how almost
+unbearable his restless, unloving spouse was rendering his domestic life;
+yet Hermon thought Ptolemy might have spared a short time for an event in
+the art life of the city, as his Demeter had been called hundreds of
+times.
+
+Now the long-desired command to appear before the sovereign had finally
+reached him, and, in the secure belief that it would bring fresh
+recognition and rare honours, he entered the royal palace.
+
+Proclus, who neglected no opportunity of serving the nephew of the rich
+man whose aid he constantly required for the Queen's finances, was his
+guide, and described the decoration of the inner apartments of the royal
+residence.  Their unostentatious simplicity showed the refined taste of
+their royal occupant.  There was no lack of marble and other rare kinds
+of stone, and the numerous bas-reliefs which covered the walls like the
+most superb tapestry were worthy of special attention.  In the oblong
+apartment through which the blind man was guided these marble pictures
+represented in magnificent work scenes from the campaigns in which
+Ptolemy, the King's father, had participated as Alexander's general.
+Others showed Athene, Apollo, the Muses, and Hermes, surrounding or
+hastening toward the throne of the same monarch, and others again Greek
+poets and philosophers.  Magnificent coloured mosaic pictures covered the
+floor and many flat spaces above door and windows, but gold and silver
+had been sparingly used.
+
+Masterpieces of painting and sculpture were the ornaments of the room.
+In the antechamber, where Hermon waited for the King, Proclus mentioned
+one of the finest statues of Alexander by Lysippus, and an exquisite Eros
+by Praxiteles.
+
+The period of waiting, however, became so long to the spoiled artist that
+he anticipated the monarch's appearance with painful discomfort, and the
+result of the few minutes which Ptolemy II devoted to his reception was
+far behind the hopes he had fixed upon them.
+
+In former days he had often seen the narrow-shouldered man of barely
+medium height who, to secure his own safety, had had two brothers killed
+and sent another into exile, but now ruled Egypt shrewdly and prudently,
+and developed the prosperity of Alexandria with equal energy and
+foresight.
+
+Now, for the first time, Hermon heard him speak.  He could not deny that
+his voice was unusually pleasant in tone, yet it unmistakably issued from
+the lips of a sufferer.
+
+The brief questions with which he received the blind artist were kindly,
+and as natural as though addressing an equal, and every remark made in
+connection with Hermon's answers revealed a very quick and keen
+intellect.
+
+He had seen the Demeter, and praised the conception of the goddess
+because it corresponded with her nature.  The sanctity which, as it were,
+pervaded the figure of the divine woman pleased him, because it made the
+supplicants in the temple feel that they were in the presence of a being
+who was elevated far above them in superhuman majesty.
+
+"True," he added, "your Demeter is by no means a powerful helper in time
+of need.  She is a goddess such as Epicurus imagines the immortals.
+Without interfering with human destiny, she stands above it in sublime
+grandeur and typical dignity.  You belong, if I see correctly, to the
+Epicureans?"
+
+"No," replied Hermon.  "Like my lord and King, I, too, number myself
+among the pupils of the wise Straton."
+
+"Indeed?" asked Ptolemy in a drawling tone, at the same time casting a
+glance of astonishment at the blind man's powerful figure and well-
+formed, intellectual face.  Then he went on eagerly: "I shall scarcely be
+wrong in the inference that you, the creator of the Fig-eater, had
+experienced a far-reaching mental change before your unfortunate loss of
+sight?"
+
+"I had to struggle hard," replied Hermon, "but I probably owe the success
+of the Demeter to the circumstance that I found a model whose mind and
+nature correspond with those of the goddess to a rare degree."
+
+The monarch shook his fair head, and protested in a tone of positive
+superior knowledge: "As to the model, however well selected it may be,
+it was not well chosen for this work, far less for you.  I have watched
+your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I
+often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the
+mark.  You brought something new, whose foundation seemed to me sound,
+and on which further additions might be erected.  When the excrescences
+fell off, I thought, this Hermon, his shadow Soteles, and the others who
+follow him will perhaps open new paths to the declining art which is
+constantly going back to former days.  Our time will become the point of
+departure of a new art.  But for that very reason, let me confess it, I
+regret to see you fall back from your bold advance.  You now claim for
+your work that it cleaves strictly to Nature, because the model is taken
+from life itself.  It does not become me to doubt this, yet the stamp of
+divinity which your Demeter bears is found in no mortal woman.
+Understand me correctly!  This is certainly no departure from the truth,
+for the ideal often deserves this lofty name better than anything the
+visible world offers to the eye; but hitherto you have done honour to
+another truth.  If I comprehend your art aright, its essence is opposed
+to the addition of superhuman dignity and beauty, with which you, or the
+model you used, strove to ennoble and deify your Demeter.  Admirably as
+you succeeded in doing so, it forces your work out of the sphere of
+reality, whose boundary I never before saw you cross by a single inch.
+Whether this occurred unconsciously to you in an hour of mental ecstasy,
+or whether you felt that you still lacked the means to represent the
+divine, and therefore returned to the older methods, I do not venture
+to decide.  But at the first examination of your work I was conscious
+of one thing: It means for you a revolution, a rupture with your former
+aspirations; and as--I willingly confess it--you had been marvellously
+successful, it would have driven you, had your sight been spared, out of
+your own course and into the arms of the ancients, perhaps to your
+material profit, but scarcely to the advantage of art, which needs a
+renewal of its vital energies."
+
+"Let me assure you, my lord," Hermon protested, "that had I remained able
+to continue to create, the success of the Demeter would never, never have
+rendered me faithless to the conviction and method of creation which I
+believed right; nay, before losing my sight, my whole soul was absorbed
+in a new work which would have permitted me to remain wholly and
+completely within the bounds of reality."
+
+"The Arachne?" asked the King.
+
+"Yes, my lord," cried Hermon ardently.  "With its completion I expected
+to render the greatest service, not only to myself, but to the cause of
+truth."
+
+Here Ptolemy interrupted with icy coldness: "Yet you were certainly
+wrong; at least, if the Thracian Althea, who is the personification of
+falsehood, had continued to be the model."  Then he changed his tone, and
+with the exclamation: "You are protected from the needs of life, unless
+your rich uncle throws his property into the most insatiable of gulfs.
+May Straton's philosophy help you better to sustain your courage in the
+darkness which surrounds you than it has aided me to bear other trials!"
+he left the room.
+
+Thus ended the artist's conversation with the King, from which Hermon had
+expected such great results and, deeply agitated, he ordered the driver
+of his horses to take him to Daphne.  She was the only person to whom he
+could confide what disappointment this interview had caused him.
+
+Others had previously reproached him, as the King had just done, with
+having, in the Demeter, become faithless to his artistic past.  How false
+and foolish this was!  Many a remark from the critics would have been
+better suited to Myrtilus's work than to his.  Yet his fear in Tennis had
+not been true.  Only Daphne's sweet face did not suit his more vigorous
+method of emphasizing distinctions.
+
+What a many-hued chameleon was the verdict upon works of plastic art!
+Once--on his return to the capital--thousands had united in the same one,
+and now how widely they differed again!
+
+His earlier works, which were now lauded to the skies, had formerly
+invited censure and vehement attacks.
+
+What would he not have given for the possibility of seeing his admired
+work once more!
+
+As his way led past the Temple of Demeter, he stopped near it and was
+guided to the sanctuary.
+
+It was filled with worshippers, and when, in his resolute manner, he told
+the curator and the officiating priest that he wished to enter the cella,
+and asked for a ladder to feel the goddess, he was most positively
+refused.
+
+What he requested seemed a profanation of the sacred image, and it would
+not do to disturb the devout throng.  His desire to lower the pedestal
+could not be gratified.
+
+The high priest who came forward upheld his subordinates and, after a
+short dispute, Hermon left the sanctuary with his wish unfulfilled.
+
+Never had he so keenly lamented his lost vision as during the remainder
+of the drive, and when Daphne received him he described with passionate
+lamentation how terribly blindness embittered his life, and declared
+himself ready to submit to the severest suffering to regain his sight.
+
+She earnestly entreated him to apply to the great physician Erasistratus
+again, and Hermon willingly consented.  He had promised to attend a
+banquet given that day by the wealthy ship-owner Archon.  The feast
+lasted until early morning, but toward noon Hermon again appeared in his
+uncle's house, and met Daphne full of joyous confidence, as if he were
+completely transformed.
+
+While at Archon's table he had determined to place his cure in the hands
+of higher powers.  This was the will of Fate; for the guest whose cushion
+he shared was Silanus, the host's son, and the first thing he learned
+from him was the news that he was going the next day, with several
+friends, to the oracle of Amon in the Libyan Desert, to ask it what
+should be done for his mother, who had been for several years an invalid
+whom no physician could help.  He had heard from many quarters that the
+counsel of the god, who had greeted Alexander the Great as his son, was
+infallible.
+
+Then Hermon had been most urgently pressed by the young man to accompany
+him.  Every comfort would be provided.  One of his father's fine ships
+would convey them to Paraetonium, where tents, saddle horses, and guides
+for the short land journey would be ready.
+
+So he had promised to go with Silanus, and his decision was warmly
+approved by his uncle, Daphne, and the gray-haired Pelusinian couple.
+Perhaps the god would show the blind man the right path to recovery.  He
+would always be able to call the skill of the Alexandrian leeches to his
+aid.
+
+Soon after Hermon went on board Archon's splendidly equipped vessel and,
+instead of a tiresome journey, began a new and riotous period of
+festivity.
+
+Lavish provision had been made for gay companions of both sexes, merry
+entertainment by means of dancing, music, and song, well filled dishes
+and mixing vessels, and life during the ride through the coast and desert
+regions was not less jovial and luxurious than on the ship.
+
+It seemed to the blind man like one vast banquet in the dark, interrupted
+only by sleep.
+
+The hope of counsel from the gods cheered the depressed mood which had
+weighed upon him for several weeks, and rich young Silanus praised the
+lucky fate which had enabled him to find a travelling companion whose
+intellect and wit charmed him and the others, and often detained them
+over the wine until late into the night.
+
+Here, too, Hermon felt himself the most distinguished person, the
+animating and attracting power, until it was said that the voyage was
+over, and the company pitched their tents in the famous oasis near the
+Temple of Amon.
+
+The musicians and dancers, with due regard to propriety, had been left
+behind in the seaport of Paraetonium.  Yet the young travellers were
+sufficiently gay while Silanus and Hermon waited for admission to the
+place of the oracle.  A week after their arrival it was opened to them,
+yet the words repeated to them by the priest satisfied neither Hermon nor
+Archon's son, for the oracle advised the latter to bring his mother
+herself to the oasis by the land road if she earnestly desired recovery,
+while to Hermon was shouted the ambiguous saying:
+
+    "Only night and darkness spring from the rank marsh of pleasure;
+     Morning and day rise brightly from the starving sand."
+
+Could Silanus's mother, who was unable to move, endure the desert
+journey?  And what was the meaning of the sand, from which morning and
+day--which was probably the fresh enjoyment of the light--were to rise
+for Hermon?  The sentence of the oracle weighed heavily upon him, as well
+as on Archon's son, who loved his mother, and the homeward journey became
+to the blind man by no means a cheerful but rather a very troubled dream.
+
+Thoughtful, very  disturbed, dissatisfied with himself, and resolved to
+turn his back upon the dreary life of pleasure which for so long a time
+had allowed him no rest, and now disgusted him, he kept aloof from his
+travelling companions, and rejoiced when, at Alexandria, he was led
+ashore in the harbour of Eunostus.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+Hermon entered his house with drooping head.
+
+Here he was informed that the grammateus of the Dionysian artists had
+already called twice to speak to him concerning an important matter.
+When he came from the bath, Proclus visited him again.  His errand was to
+invite him to a banquet which was to take place that evening at his
+residence in a wing of the royal palace.
+
+But Hermon was not in the mood to share a joyous revel, and he frankly
+said so, although immediately after his return he had accepted the
+invitation to the festival which the whole fellowship of artists would
+give the following day in honour of the seventieth birthday of the old
+sculptor Euphranor.  The grammateus alluded to this, and most positively
+insisted that he could not release him; for he came not only by his own
+wish, but in obedience to the command of Queen Arsinoe, who desired to
+tell the creator of the Demeter how highly she esteemed his work and his
+art.  She would appear herself at dessert, and the banquet must therefore
+begin at an unusually early hour.  He, Proclus, was to have the high
+honour of including the royal lady among his guests solely on Hermon's
+account, and his refusal would be an insult to the Queen.
+
+So the artist found himself obliged to relinquish his opposition.  He did
+this reluctantly; but the Queen's attention to him and his art flattered
+his vanity and, if he was to abandon the intoxicating and barren life of
+pleasure, it could scarcely be done more worthily than at a festival
+where the King's consort intended to distinguish him in person.
+
+The banquet was to begin in a few hours, yet he could not let the day
+pass without seeing Daphne and telling her the words of the oracle.  He
+longed, with ardent yearning, for the sound of her voice, and still more
+to unburden his sorely troubled soul to her.
+
+Oh, if only his Myrtilus still walked among the living!  How totally
+different, in spite of his lost vision, would his life have been!
+
+Daphne was now the only one whom he could put in his place.
+
+Since his return from the oracle, the fear that the rescued Demeter might
+yet be the work of Myrtilus had again mastered him.  However loudly
+outward circumstances might oppose this, he now felt, with a certainty
+which surprised him, that this work was not his own.  The approval, as
+well as the doubts, which it aroused in others strengthened his opinion,
+although even now he could not succeed in bringing it into harmony with
+the facts.  How deep had been the intoxication in which he had so long
+reeled from one day to the next, since it had succeeded in keeping every
+doubt of the authorship of this work far from him!
+
+Now he must obtain certainty, and Daphne could help him to it; for, as a
+priestess of Demeter, she possessed the right to procure him access to
+the cella and get permission for him to climb the lofty pedestal and feel
+the statue with his fingers, whose sense of touch had become much keener.
+
+He would frankly inform her of his fear, and her truthful nature would
+find the doubt that gnawed his heart as unendurable as he himself.
+
+It would have been a grave crime to woo her before he was relieved of
+this uncertainty, and he would utter the decisive words that very day,
+and ask her whether her love was great enough to share the joys and
+sorrows of life with him, the blind man, who perhaps must also divest
+himself of a false fame.
+
+Time pressed.
+
+He called at Archias's house with a wreath on his head and in festal
+robes; but Daphne was in the temple, whither old Philippus and Thyone had
+gone, and his uncle was attending a late session of the Council.
+
+He would have liked to follow Daphne to the sanctuary, but the late hour
+forbade it, and he therefore only charged Gras to tell his young mistress
+that he was going to Proclus's banquet, and would return early the next
+morning to discuss a most important subject with her.
+
+Then he went directly to the neighbouring palace.  The Queen might have
+appeared already, and it would not do to keep her waiting.
+
+He was aware that she lived at variance with her husband, but how could
+he have suspected that she cherished the more than bold design of hurling
+the sovereign from his throne and seizing the Egyptian crown herself.
+
+Proclus and Althea were among the conspirators who supported Arsinoe, and
+the Queen thought it would be an easy matter to win over to her cause and
+herself the handsome sculptor, whom she remembered at the last Dionysia.
+
+The wealthy blind artist, so highly esteemed among the members of his
+profession, might become valuable to the conspiracy, for she knew what
+enthusiastic devotion the Alexandrian artists felt for the King, and
+everything depended upon forming a party in her own favour among them.
+This task was to fall to Hermon, and also another, still more important
+one; for he, his nephew and future son-in-law, if any one, could persuade
+the wealthy Archias to lend the plot his valuable aid.  Hitherto the
+merchant had been induced, it is true, to advance large sums of money to
+the Queen, but the loyal devotion which he showed to her royal husband
+had rendered it impossible to give him even a hint of the conspiracy.
+Althea, however, declared that the blind man's marriage to Daphne was
+only a question of time, and Proclus added that the easily excited nephew
+would show himself more pliant than the uncle if Arsinoe exerted upon him
+the irresistible charm of her personality.
+
+When Hermon entered the residence of the grammateus in the palace, the
+guests had already assembled.  The Queen was not to appear until after
+the feast, when the mixing jars were filled.  The place by Hermon's side,
+which Althea had chosen for herself, would then be given up to Arsinoe.
+
+The sovereign was as unaccustomed to the society of a blind artist as
+Hermon was to that of a queen, and both eagerly anticipated the
+approaching meeting.
+
+Yet it was difficult for Hermon to turn a bright face toward his
+companion.  The sources of anxiety and grief which had previously
+burdened his mind would not vanish, even under the roof of the royal
+palace.
+
+Althea's presence reminded him of Tennis, Ledscha, and Nemesis, who for
+so long a time seemed to have suspended her persecution, but since he had
+returned from the abode of the oracle was again asserting the old right
+to him.  During many a sleepless hour of the night he had once more heard
+the rolling of her terrible wheel.
+
+Even before the journey to the oasis of Amon, everything life could offer
+him, the idle rake, in his perpetual darkness, had seemed shallow and
+scarcely worth stretching out his hand for it.
+
+True, an interesting conversation still had power to charm him, but often
+during its continuance the full consciousness of his misfortune forced
+itself upon his mind; for the majority of the subjects discussed by the
+artists came to them through the medium of sight, and referred to new
+creations of architecture, sculpture, and painting, from whose enjoyment
+his blindness debarred him.
+
+When returning home from a banquet, if his way lay through the city, he
+was reminded of the superb buildings, marble terraces and fountains,
+statues and porticoes, which had formerly satiated his eyes with delight,
+and must now be illumined with a brilliant radiance by the morning
+sunbeams, though a hostile fate shut them out from his eyes, starving and
+thirsting for beautiful forms.
+
+But it had seemed to him still harder to bear that his blinded eyes
+refused to show him the most beautiful of all beautiful things, the human
+form, when he lingered among the Ephebi or the spectators of a festal
+procession, or visited the gymnasium, the theatre, the Aphrodisium, or
+the Paneum gardens, where the beautiful women met at sunset.
+
+The Queen was to appear immediately, and when she took her place near him
+his blindness would again deprive him of the sight of her delicately cut
+features, prevent his returning the glances from her sparkling eves, and
+admiring the noble outlines of her thinly veiled figure.
+
+Would his troubled spirit at least permit him to enjoy and enter without
+restraint into the play of her quick wit?
+
+Perhaps her arrival would relieve him from the discomfort which oppressed
+him here.
+
+A stranger, out of his own sphere, he felt chilled among these closely
+united men and women, to whom no tie bound him save the presence of the
+same host.
+
+He was not acquainted with a single individual except the mythograph
+Crates, who for several months had been one of the members of the Museum,
+and who had attached himself to Hermon at Straton's lectures.
+
+The artist was surprised to find this man in such a circle, but he
+learned from Althea that the young member of the Museum was a relative of
+Proclus, and a suitor of the beautiful Nico, one of the Queen's ladies in
+waiting, who was among the guests.
+
+Crates had really been invited in order to win him over to the Queen's
+cause; but charming fair-haired Nico had been commissioned by the
+conspirators to persuade him to sing Arsinoe's praises among his
+professional associates.
+
+The rest of the men present stood in close connection with Arsinoe, and
+were fellow-conspirators against her husband's throne and life.  The
+ladies whom Proclus had invited were all confidants of Arsinoe, the wives
+and daughters of his other guests.  All were members of the highest class
+of society, and their manners showed the entire freedom from restraint
+that existed in the Queen's immediate circle.  Althea profited by the
+advantage of being Hermon's only acquaintance here.  So, when he took his
+place on the cushion at her side, she greeted him familiarly and
+cordially, as she had treated him for a long time, wherever they met,
+and in a low voice told him, sometimes in a kindly tone, sometimes with
+biting sarcasm, the names and characters of the other guests.
+
+The most aristocratic was Amyntas, who stood highest of all in the
+Queen's favour because he had good reason to hate the other Arsinoe, the
+sister of the King.  His son had been this royal dame's first husband,
+and she had deserted him to marry Lysimachus, the aged King of Thrace.
+
+The Rhodian Chrysippus, her leech and trusted counsellor, also possessed
+great influence over the Queen.
+
+"The noble lady," whispered Althea, "needs the faithful devotion of every
+well-disposed subject, for perhaps you have already learned how cruelly
+the King embitters the life of the mother of his three children.  Many a
+caprice can be forgiven the suffering Ptolemy, who recently expressed a
+wish that he could change places with the common workmen whom he saw
+eating their meal with a good appetite, and who is now tortured by the
+gout; yet he watches the hapless woman with the jealousy of a tiger,
+though he himself is openly faithless to her.  What is the Queen to him,
+since the widow of Lysimachus returned from Thrace--no, from Cassandrea,
+Ephesus, and sacred Samothrace, or whatever other places there are which
+would no longer tolerate the murderess?"
+
+"The King's sister--the object of his love?" cried Hermon incredulously.
+"She must be forty years old now."
+
+"Very true," Althea assented.  "But we are in Egypt, where marriages
+between brothers and sisters are pleasing to gods and men; and besides,
+we make our own moral laws here.  Her age!  We women are only as old as
+we look, and the leeches and tiring women of this beauty of forty
+practise arts which give her the appearance of twenty-five, yet perhaps
+the King values her intellect more than her person, and the wisdom of a
+hundred serpents is certainly united in this woman's head.  She will make
+our poor Queen suffer unless real friends guard her from the worst.  The
+three most trustworthy ones are here:  Amyntas, the leech Chrysippus, and
+the admirable Proclus.  Let us hope that you will make this three-leaved
+clover the luck-promising four-leaved one.  Your uncle, too, has often
+with praiseworthy generosity helped Arsinoe in many an embarrassment.
+Only make the acquaintance of this beautiful royal lady, and the last
+drop of your blood will not seem too precious to shed for her!  Besides--
+Proclus told me so in confidence--you have little favour to expect from
+the King.  How long he kept you waiting for the first word concerning a
+work which justly transported the whole city with delight!  When he did
+finally summon you, he said things which must have wounded you."
+
+"That is going too far," replied Hermon.
+
+"Then he kept back his real opinion," Althea protested.  "Had I not made
+it a rule to maintain absolute silence concerning everything I hear in
+conversation from those with whom I am closely associated--"
+
+Here she was interrupted by Chrysippus, who asked if Althea had told her
+neighbour about his Rhodian eye-salve.
+
+He winked at her and made a significant gesture as he spoke, and then
+informed the blind artist how graciously Arsinoe had remembered him when
+she heard of the remedy by whose aid many a wonderful cure of blind eyes
+had been made in Rhodes.  The royal lady had inquired about him and his
+sufferings with almost sisterly interest, and Althea eagerly confirmed
+the statement.
+
+Hermon listened to the pair in silence.
+
+He had not been able to see them, it is true, yet he had perceived their
+design as if the loss of sight had sharpened his mental vision.  He
+imagined that he could see the favourite and Althea nudge each other with
+sneering gestures, and believed that their sole purpose was to render
+him--he knew not for what object--the obedient tool of the Queen, who had
+probably also succeeded in persuading his usually cautious uncle to
+render her great services.
+
+The remembrance of Arsinoe's undignified conduct at the Dionysia, and the
+shameful stories of her which he had heard returned to his mind.  At the
+same time he saw Daphne rise before him in her aristocratic dignity and
+kindly goodness, and a smile of satisfaction hovered around his lips as
+he said to himself: "The spider Althea again!  But, in spite of my
+blindness, I will be caught neither in her net nor in the Queen's.  They
+are the last to bar the way which leads to Daphne and real happiness."
+
+The Rhodian was just beginning to praise Arsinoe also as a special friend
+and connoisseur of the sculptor's art when Crates, Hermon's fellow-
+student, asked the blind artist, in behalf of his beautiful companion,
+why his Demeter was placed upon a pedestal which, to others as well as
+himself, seemed too high for the size of the statue.
+
+Hermon replied that he had heard several make this criticism, but the
+priests of the goddess refused to take it into account.
+
+Here he hesitated, for, like a blow from an invisible hand, the thought
+darted through his mind that perhaps, on the morrow, he would see himself
+compelled before the whole world to cast aside the crown of fame which he
+owed to the statue on the lofty pedestal.  He did not have even the
+remotest idea of continuing to deck himself with false renown if his
+dread was realized; yet he doubtless imagined how this whole aristocratic
+circle, with the Queen, Althea, and Proclus at its head, would turn with
+reckless haste from the hapless man who had led them into such a shameful
+error.
+
+Yet what mattered it, even if these miserable people considered
+themselves deceived and pointed the finger of scorn at him?  Better
+people would thereby be robbed of the right to accuse him of
+faithlessness to himself.  This thought darted through his heated brain
+like a flash of lightning, and when, in spite of his silence, the
+conversation was continued and Althea told the others that only Hermon's
+blindness had prevented the creation of a work which could have been
+confidently expected far to surpass the Demeter, since it seemed to have
+been exactly suited to his special talent, he answered his beautiful
+companion's remark curtly and absently.
+
+She perceived this with annoyance and perplexity.
+
+A woman who yearns for the regard of all men, and makes love a toy,
+easily lessens the demands she imposes upon individuals.  Only, even
+though love has wholly disappeared, she still claims consideration, and
+Althea did not wish to lose Hermon's regard.
+
+When Amyntas, the head of the conspirators, attracted the attention of
+the company by malicious remarks about the King's sister, the Thracian
+laid her hand on the blind artist's arm, whispering: "Has the image of
+the Arachne which, at Tennis, charmed you even in the presence of the
+angry Zeus, completely vanished from your memory?  How indifferent you
+look!  But I tell you"--her deep blue eyes flashed as she spoke--"that so
+long as you were still a genuine creating artist the case was different.
+Even while putting the last touches of the file to the Demeter, for which
+Archias's devout daughter posed as your model, another whom you could not
+banish from your mind filled your imagination.  Though so loud a denial
+is written on your face, I persist in my conviction, and that no idle
+delusion ensnares me I can prove!"
+
+Hermon raised his sightless eyes to her inquiringly, but she went on with
+eager positiveness: "Or, if you did not think of the weaver while carving
+the goddess, how did you happen to engrave a spider on the ribbon twined
+around the ears of grain in Demeter's hand?  Not the smallest detail of a
+work produced by the hand of a valued friend escapes my notice, and I
+perceived it before the Demeter came to the temple and the lofty
+pedestal.  Now I would scarcely be able to discover it in the dusky
+cella, yet at that time I took pleasure in the sight of the ugly insect,
+not only because it is cleverly done, but because it reminded me of
+something"--here she lowered her voice still more--"that pleased me,
+though probably it would seem less flattering to the daughter of Archias,
+who perhaps is better suited to act as guide to the blind.  How
+bewildered you look!  Eternal gods!  Many things are forgotten after
+long months have passed, but it will be easy for me to sharpen your
+memory.  'At the time Hermon had just finished the Demeter,' the spider
+called to me, 'he scratched me on the gold.'  But at that very time--yes,
+my handsome friend, I can reckon accurately--you had met me, Althea, in
+Tennis, I had brought the spider-woman before your eyes.  Was it really
+nothing but foolish vanity that led me to the conviction that you were
+thinking of me also when you engraved on the ribbon the despised spider-
+for which, however, I always felt a certain regard--with the delicate web
+beneath its slender legs?"
+
+Hitherto Hermon had listened to every word in silence, labouring for
+breath.  He was transported as if by magic to the hour of his return from
+Pelusium; he saw himself enter Myrtilus's studio and watch his friend
+scratch something, he did not know what, upon the ribbon which fastened
+the bunch of golden grain.  It was--nay, it could have been nothing else
+--that very spider.  The honoured work was not his, but his dead
+friend's.  How the exchange had occurred he could not now understand, but
+to disbelieve that it had taken place would have been madness or self-
+deception.
+
+Now he also understood the doubts of Soteles and the King.  Not he--
+Myrtilus, and he alone, was the creator of the much-lauded Demeter!
+
+This conviction raised a hundred-pound weight from his soul.
+
+What was applause!  What was recognition!  What were fame and laurel
+wreaths!  He desired clearness and truth for himself and all the world
+and, as if frantic, he suddenly sprang from his cushions, shouting to the
+startled guests: "I myself and this whole great city were deceived!  The
+Demeter is not mine, not the work of Hermon!  The dead Myrtilus created
+it!"
+
+Then pressing his hand to his brow, he called his student friend to his
+side, and, as the scholar anxiously laid his arm on his shoulder,
+whispered: "Away, away from here!  Only let me get out of doors into the
+open air!"
+
+Crates, bewildered and prepared for the worst, obeyed his wish; but
+Althea and the other guests left behind felt more and more impressed
+by the suddenly awakened conviction that the hapless blind man had now
+also become the victim of madness.
+
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