Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers
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The Delay <strong>of</strong> the Deity<br />
or Asklepias born among them, or the other distin<br />
guished <strong>and</strong> noble-minded men whoso ancestors had<br />
been evil-doers <strong>and</strong> reprobates.<br />
8. Do you not think it better that retribution<br />
should come in due season <strong>and</strong> in a fitting way, than<br />
immediately <strong>and</strong> all at once? As, for instance, in<br />
the case <strong>of</strong> Kalippus, who, supposed to be the friend<br />
<strong>of</strong> Dion, killed him with the same sword with which<br />
he was afterward dispatched by his friends;<br />
<strong>of</strong> Mitias the Argive who had been slain in a<br />
<strong>and</strong> whose brazen statue in the marketplace<br />
<strong>and</strong> that<br />
tumult<br />
fell on<br />
the slayer <strong>of</strong> Mitias during a dramatic performance<br />
<strong>and</strong> killed him. And the stories <strong>of</strong> Bessus. the<br />
Paeonian, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> Aristo the Oetaean, the leaders <strong>of</strong><br />
the mercenaries, you, <strong>of</strong> course, know, Patrocleas."<br />
I do not,"<br />
said he, but I would like to hear them."<br />
Aristo," I said, having taken away the ornaments<br />
<strong>of</strong> Eriphyle lying here (in this temple), with the<br />
permission <strong>of</strong> the authorities, presented them to his<br />
wife; but his son, angered<br />
at his mother from some<br />
cause, set the house on fire <strong>and</strong> burned up<br />
were in it. And Bessus, as the story goes, having<br />
all who<br />
killed his own father, was not found out for a long<br />
time, but finally, going to a banquet with some<br />
friends <strong>and</strong> happening to strike a nest <strong>of</strong> young<br />
swallows with his spear, knocked it down <strong>and</strong> killed<br />
the fledglings. When those who were present said,<br />
as was natural, Man, what possessed you to do such<br />
an ill-omened deed ? he replied, Have they not this<br />
long time been falsely accusing me <strong>and</strong> crying out<br />
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