Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

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