In  particular,  I  give  notice  that  we  have  already  be-
gun legal  proceedings  against  Sinon  for  piracy,  for
conspiracy  against  the  lives  and  fortunes  of  innocent
citizens,  and  for  robbing  Damaris,  daughter  of  our
brother,  Lysymachus,  of  her  ancestral  estates.  We
pledge  ourselves  to  prove  this  by  these  witnesses
whom  you  see ;  also,  by  two  others,  who  come  to  us
from  the  dead,  in  order  to  give  a  clew  to  a  labyrinth
worse  than  that  of  Minos,  and  inhabited  by  a  worse
monster  than  the  Minotaur.  Appear,  Epigetes  and
Euphorus !  **

The  heart  of  Dio  bounded  at  the  familiar  name.
Looking  toward  the  cave,  he  saw  issuing  from  it
two  men — one  pale  and  haggard,  and  almost  atten-
uated enough  to  be  a  shade,  and  apparently  unable
to  support  himself  alone ;  the  other,  who  supported


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450  Dio  THE  Athenian.
him,  the  exact  double  of  his  lost  servant  and  com-
panion. Were  these  spirits,  and  the  priest  of  Zeus
a  mighty  necromancer,  as  his  language  seemed  to
imply  ?  A  subtle  awe  crept  over  Dio,  such  as  even
the  bravest  may  feel  in  the  presence  of  another
world.  But  every  step  thickened  the  spirits  into
the  seeming  of  flesh  and  blood;  and  when  they
drew  near,  and,  what  seemed  Euphorus,  knelt  be-
fore him  and  fervently  kissed  his  hand  with  tears
dropping  from  his  eyes,  Dio  joyfully  drew  the  solid
phantom  from  its  knees  and  embraced  it,  and  did
not  find  it  vanishing  into  thin  air,  like  the  shades
of  Patroclus  and  Creusa.
