[Pozarica-joel] Parture, the god indicated to him by the victim

[Hadnot Benavides]

He hills
with a message to
say that if they did not come down to their homes, and live

quietly and obey him, he would burn
down their villages and their corn, and leave them

5 to perish with hunger. Thereupon down they came,
women and children and the older men; the younger men preferred to
quarter themselves in the villages on the skirts of the hills. On
discovering this, Seuthes
bade Xenophon take the youngest of the heavy infantry

and join him on an expedition.
They rose in the night, and by daybreak had reached the villages; but
the majority of the inhabitants made good their escape,

for the hills were close at hand.

Those whom he did catch,
Seuthes unsparingly shot down. Now there was a certain Olynthian,
named Episthenes; he was a great lover of boys, and seeing a handsome
lad, just in the bloom of youth, and carrying a light shield, about to
be slain, he ran up to Xenophon and supplicated him to rescue the fair
youth. Xenophon went to Seuthes and begged him not to put the boy to
death. He explained

to him
the disposition of Episthenes; how he had once enrolled a company, the
only qualification required being that of personal beauty; and
with these handsome young men at his side there were none so brave as
he. Seuthes put the question, "Would you like to die on his behalf,
Episthenes?" whereat the other stretched out his neck, and said,
"Strike, if the boy bids you,
and will thank his preserver."
Seuthes, turning
to the boy, asked, "Shall
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