This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...twice, shouting and saying to him, " Tell me, what did you give to Leucippe? What is it that has made her mad?" He was greatly frightened, and related to us the whole story just as Chaereas had told it to us; so we shut him up in prison and kept him there. in her malady. On one occasion, however, while asleep, she ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...twice, shouting and saying to him, " Tell me, what did you give to Leucippe? What is it that has made her mad?" He was greatly frightened, and related to us the whole story just as Chaereas had told it to us; so we shut him up in prison and kept him there. in her malady. On one occasion, however, while asleep, she uttered these words in her dream: "It is through you that I have lost my senses, Gorgias." When morning came, I told Menelaus what she had said, and enquired if there were any Gorgias in the place. As we walked out, a young man came up to us and, addressing me, "I come," he said, "to be the salvation of you and your beloved.1" I was struck dumb at this and thought that he must be divinely sent to me. "You do not happen to be Gorgias, I suppose?" said I. "No," said he, "but Chaereas. It is Gorgias that has been your undoing." I could not but shiver at this, and said, "What is this undoing, and who is Gorgias? Some god communicated to me his name in the night; it is for you to be the interpreter of the heavenly message." "Gorgias was," he said, "an Egyptian soldier: now he is no more, but has become the victim of the buccaneers. He fell in love with your chosen, and being naturally an expert in drugs, he prepared a love-philtre and bribed your Egyptian servant to take it and mix it in Leucippe's drink: but the servant by a mistake administered the philtre undiluted, and it had the effect of producing madness. All this was told me yesterday by Gorgias' servant, who was fighting by his side against the robbers; it seems that good fortune has kept him safe for you; he asks four pieces of gold to cure her, for he says that he possesses another preparation of d...
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