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made with much care, and the supposed corpse of the princess was 

 laid within it, with treasure at the head and at the feet, and so 

 committed to the deep. On the third day the chest was cast ashore 

 on the coast of Ephesus, and was found by Cerimon, a physician, 

 who, with his scholars, was walking upon the shore. When the 

 chest was opened, and the body found and marveled at by all, it 

 was observed by one of the scholars (Machaon) that some sparks of 

 life yet lingered. He ordered a fire to be kindled, and chafed the body 

 until the blood again began to flow freely and the lady to awaken 

 from her trance. By her own request she was placed in the Temple 

 of Diana at Ephesus, " for aye to be in shady cloister mewed." 



The sorrowful Apollonius came, by fortunate winds, to Tarsus, 

 where he left his daughter and her nurse, Lycoris, in the care of 

 Stranguillio and his wife, Dionysias, to be brought up with their 

 daughter. And he swore an oath that he would not cut his hair, 

 nor his beard, nor his nails until his daughter's marriage. He then 

 departed into Egypt. The daughter, whose name was Tharsia, 

 grew up in Tarsus, comely and well schooled. At fourteen years 

 of age she learned from her dying nurse the names of her parents 

 and the story of her birth in the tempest. 



Dionysias, jealous of the child's beauty, and that she was so much 

 in the heart of the people that her own child was altogether mis- 

 prised, ordered her slave (Theophilus) to murder Tharsia, instruct- 

 ing him to wait by the tomb of Lycoris, whither it was the wont of 

 Tharsia each day to repair and to pray, and there to seize and slay 

 the child and to throw the body into the sea. The murderous in- 

 tent was frustrated by the sudden appearance of some pirates, who 

 -carried Tharsia to their ships and departed with her. The slave 

 returned to Dionysias and announced that the deed that she had 

 ordered was done, whereupon the family put on mourning and a 

 monument was erected by the people with this inscription " Unto 

 the virgin Tharsia in lieu of her father's benefits, the citizens of 

 Tarsus have erected this monument."^ 



The pirates landed at Mitylene and sold Tharsia to a brothel. 

 In this loathsome place she still preserved her honor, drawing tears 

 from those who sought her company by her moving recital of her 

 painful adventures. Athenagoras, ''the first in the city," visited 

 her and was moved with compassion and pity. 



^ *« D. M. Gives Tharsi Tharsise Virgini Beneficiis Tyrii Apollonii" (Codex 

 Parasinus, 4955)- 



