210 SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



After fourteen years Apollonius returned to Tarsus only to learn 

 that his daughter was dead, and after he had seen her monument he 

 returned to his ship where he lay lonely and sad. Again driven by 

 a tempest, the vessel chanced upon the coast of Mitylene, upon the 

 birthday of Apollonius. Athenagoras walking toward the sea-shore 

 saw Apollonius' tall ship riding at anchor and praised her stately 

 appearance to the mariners, who invited him to come aboard and 

 to partake of their feast. Upon inquiring after the owner of the 

 ship, he learned that he was ill and weak with sorrow, that he had 

 lost his wife upon the sea and his daughter in a strange land. 

 Athenagoras offered two pieces of gold to the servant who would 

 go down and tell his master that the Prince of the City desired him 

 to come up out of darkness into light, but the servant replied that 

 he could not buy new thighs with gold and that his master had 

 said that whoever troubled him should have his thighs broken. 

 Athenagoras then went in person, but in vain. Upon being told 

 that the name of the master of the ship was Apollonius, he remem- 

 bered that he had heard Tharsia call her father so. It occurred to 

 him to send for Tharsia, whom he desired to comfort the lord of the 

 vessel with her song. Apollonius wondered at her song, requited 

 her with a hundred pieces of gold and bade her depart. Upon the 

 demand of Athenagoras, she returned again to the despairing father 

 and attempted to cheer him with riddles. Apollonius solved the 

 riddles, but, vexed by her importunity, as it seemed to him, he rose 

 up suddenly and struck her on the face so that she fell to the ground. 

 Weeping, she lamented her unhappy fate, and at last Apollonius 

 recognized his daughter. 



The bawd who had purchased Tharsia was burned ; the citizens 

 of Mitylene erected two statues of brass in the market-place, *' Unto 

 Apollonius, prince of Tyrus, the preserver of our houses ; and unto 

 his virtuous daughter Tharsia;" and Tharsia was given as wife unto 

 Athenagoras. 



Upon his return to Tyre, in company with his daughter and son- 

 in-law, Apollonius had a dream in which he was commanded of an 

 angel to sail unto Ephesus and to go to the Temple of Diana and there 

 with a loud voice to declare all his adventures. This he did, and 

 was recognized by his wife, and the reunited family journeyed to 

 Antioch, where Apollonius was crowned king. Thence he sailed to 

 Tyre, where he found his kingdom governed in good order. He 

 left his son-in-law as lieutenant at Tyre, and took ship for Tarsus, 



