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Often appears with: crime and punishment · conspiracy and assassination · xenoetas · wifehood and patience · tigris crossing · thracileon care advice · the problem of evil and theodicy · strategy and the aims of war · silvanus · siege of seleucia · siege and fortification · political poisoning of information
Usually: narrative (4) · injustice endured (3) · deception discovered (2) · dialogue (1) · confronting death (1) · the stranger's arrival (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1)
“Then Demochares commanded him with all care to be put in the park with all the other beasts: but immediately I spake unto him and said, Sir I pray you take heed” Apuleius, The Golden Asse · observation
In the wake of these disasters, the narrative shifts to Gaul and the plot against Silvanus, as forged letters and court intrigue lead to investigations, arrests, and eventual clearing of the conspirators’ case by documentary evidence.
which they begin their wars, allowed himself to be betrayed into a hidden ambush, where he stood without the power of moving, being bewildered by the suddenness of his disaster. 8. In the mean time the enemy, showing themselves, sprang forth from their hiding-places and spared not one who came in their way, but overwhelmed them with every kind of weapon. For none of our men could offer the smallest resistance, nor w…
Constance and Alla consummate the marriage and have a son, Mauricius, but Donegild’s ally or agent bribes the messenger, who steals and forges letters to poison the king’s trust, prompting the king to respond in faith.
burst in two; She would not that her son had done so; Her thought it a despite that he should take So strange a creature unto his make.* *mate, consort Me list not of the chaff nor of the stre* *straw Make so long a tale, as of the corn. What should I tellen of the royalty Of this marriage, or which course goes beforn, Who bloweth in a trump or in an horn? The fruit of every tale is for to sa…
Antiochus III shifts from the Coele-Syria plan to confronting Molon, sending the Achaean Xenoetas, marching through Apameia and the Marsyas gorge, and withdrawing when Xenoetas is defeated.
[Sidenote: Molon takes up arms.] +45.+ Being masters, then, of a territory of proportions worthy of a kingdom, his great power had made Molon from the first a formidable enemy: but when the royal generals appeared to have abandoned the country to him, and his own forces were elated at the successful issue of their first hopes, the terror which he inspired became absolute, and he was believed by the Asiatics to be ir…
Thrasileon volunteers to disguise himself in a bear skin, receives forged letters claiming friendship, is taken into Demochares’s estate at night, and is urged to be protected and cared for away from the park.
How Thrasileon was disguised in a Beares skin, and how he was handled. When the skin was a drying we made merry with the flesh, and then we devised with our selves, that one of us being more valiant than the rest both in body and courage (so that he would consent thereto) should put on the skin, and feigning that he were a Beare, should be led to Demochares house in the night, by which means we thought to be receive…
He rejects forged letters about hoping for Rome’s freedom, debates the possibility of evil under God, recounts how he defended the senate at Verona, and laments condemnation to outlawry and death without defense.
verdict of the discerning. Moreover, lest the course of events and the true facts should be hidden from posterity, I have myself committed to writing an account of the transaction. 'What need to speak of the forged letters by which an attempt is made to prove that I hoped for the freedom of Rome? Their falsity would have been manifest, if I had been allowed to use the confession of the informers themselves, evidence…