Hēr onginþ sēo gerecednes be Antioche þǣm ungesǣligan cyninge and be Apollonīe þǣm Tyriscan ealdormenn.
On Antiochia þǣre ceastre wæs sum cyning Antiochus gehaten. Æfter þæs cyninges naman wæs sēo ceaster Antiochia gecīeged. Þisses cyninges cwēn wearþ of līfe gewiten. Be þǣre hē hæfde āne swīðe wlitige dohtor ungelīfedlicre fægernesse. Mid þȳ þe hēo becōm tō giftlicre ielde, þā giernde hire manig mǣre mann, micele mǣrðe bēodende.
Þā gelamp hit sārlicum gelimpe. Þā þā se fæder þōhte hwǣm hē hīe meahte hēalicost forgiefan, þā gefēoll his āgen mōd on hire lufe mid unrihtre gewilnunge; tō þǣm swīðe þæt hē forgēat þā fæderlican ārfæstnesse, and gewilnode his āgene dohtor him tō gemæccan. And þā gewilnunge nāht lange ne ielde; ac sume dæge on ǣrmorgene, þā hē of slǣpe āwōc, hē ābræc intō þǣm būre þǣr hēo inne læg, and hēt his hīred-menn ealle him āweg gān, swilce hē wiþ his dohtor sume dīegole sprǣce sprecan wolde. Hwæt hē þā on þǣre mānfullan scylde ābisgode, and þā ongēan-winnendan fæmnan mid micelre strengðe earfoþlīce ofercōm, and þæt gefremede mān gewilnode tō bedīglienne!
Þā gewearþ hit þæt þæs mægdenes fōstormōdor intō þǣm būre ēode, and gesēah hīe þǣr sittan on micelre gedrēfednesse, and hire cwæþ tō, “Hwȳ eart þū hlǣfdige swā gedrēfedes mōdes?”
Þæt mægden hire andswarode, “Lēofe fōstormōdor, nū tōdæg forwurdon twēgen æðele naman on þissum būre.”
Sēo fōstormōdor cwæþ, “Hlǣfdige, be hwǣm cwist þū þæt?”
Hēo hire andwyrde and cwæþ, “Ǣr þǣm dæge mīnra brȳdgifta, ic eom mid mānfulre scylde besmiten.”
Þā cwæþ sēo fōstormōdor, “Hwā wæs æfre swā dyrstiges mōdes þæt dorste cyninges dohtor gewemman ǣr þǣm dæge hire brȳdgifta, and him ne ondrēd þæs cyninges ierre?”
Þæt mægden cwæþ, “Ārlēasnes þā scylde on mē gefremede.”
Sēo fōstormōdor cwæþ, “Hwȳ ne sægst þū hit þīnum fæder?”
Þæt mægden cwæþ, “Hwǣr is se fæder? Sōþlīce on mē earmre is mīnes fæder nama hrēowlīce forworden, and mē nū forþǣm dēaþ þearle gelīcaþ.” Sēo fōstormōdor sōþlīce þā þā hēo gehīerde þæt þæt mægden hire deaðes giernde, þā clipode hēo hīe hire tō mid līðre sprǣce, and bæd þæt hēo fram þǣre gewilnunge hire mōd gewende, and tō hire fæder willan gebūge, þēah þe hēo tōgenēadod wǣre.
On þissum þingum sōþlīce þurhwunode se ārlēasest cyning Antiochus, and mid gehīwodan mōde hine selfne ætīewde his ceastergewarum, swilce hē ārfæst fæder wǣre his dohtor, and betwux his hīwcūðum mannum. Hē blissode on þǣm þæt hē his āgenre dohtor wer wæs; and tō þǣm þæt hē hīe þȳ lengra brucan meahte his dohtor ārlēasan brȳdbeddes, and him fram ādrīfan þā þe hire gierndon tō rihtum gesinscipum, hē āsette þā rædels, þus cweðende, “Swā hwilc mann swā mīnne rædels riht ārǣde, onfō se mīnre dohtor tō wīfe. And se þe hine misrǣde, sīe hē behēafdod.” Hwæt is nū māre ymbe þæt tō sprecenne, būton þæt cyningas ǣghwanon cōmon and ealdormenn, for þǣm ungelīfedlican wlite þæs mægdenes, and þone dēaþ hīe oferhogodon, and þone rædels understōdon tō ārǣdenne. Ac gif heora hwilc þonne þurh āsmeagunge bōclicre snotornesse þone rædels āriht rǣdde, þonne wearþ se tō behēafdunge gelǣd. Swā same swā se þe hine āriht ne rǣdde; and þā hēafdas ealle wurdon gesetted on ufeweardan þǣm geate.
Mid þȳ sōþlīce Antiochus se wælhrēow cyning on þisse wælhrēownesse þurhwunode. Þā wæs Apollonius gehaten, sum geong mann se wæs swīðe welig and snottor, and wæs ealdormann on Tyre þǣre mǣgðe. Se getrūwode on his snotornesse and on þā bōclican lāre, and ongann rowan oþþæt hē becōm tō Antiochian, ēode þā intō þǣm cyninge and cwæþ, “Wel gesunda cyning. Hwæt ic becōm nū tō þē swā swā tō gōdum fæder and ārfæstum. Ic eom sōþlīce of cynelicum cynne cumen; and ic bidde þīnre dohtor mē tō gemæccan.”
Þā þā se cyning þæt gehīerde þæt hē his willes gehīeran nolde, hē swīðe ierlicum andwlitan besēah tō þǣm geongan ealdormenn and cwæþ, “Þū geonga mann, canst þū þone dōm mīnre dohtor gifta?”
Apollonius cwæþ, “Ic cann þone dōm, and ic hine æt þǣm geate gesēah.”
Þā cwæþ se cyning mid ǣbylgnesse, “Gehīer nū þone rædels: Scelere vereor, materna carne vescor.” Þæt is on Englisc, “Scylde ic þolīe, mōddrenum flǣsce ic bruce.” Eft hē cwæþ, “Quero patrem meum, mee matris virum, uxoris mee filiam, nec invenio.” Þæt is on Englisc, “Ic sēce mīnne fæder, mīnre mōdor wer, mīnes wīfes dohtor, and ic ne finde.”
Apollonius þā sōþlīce onfangenum rædelse hine bewende hwōn fram þǣm cyninge. And mid þȳ þe hē smēade ymbe þæt ingehygd, hē hit gewann mid wīsdōme. And mid Godes fultume hē þæt sōþ ārǣdde, bewende hine þā tō þǣm cyninge, and cwæþ, “Þū gōda cyning, þū āsetest rædels; gehīer þū þā onfundennesse ymbe þæt þū cwǣdest. Þæt þū scylde þolodest, ne eart þū lēogende on þǣm; besēo tō þē selfum. And þæt þū cwǣdest, ‘moddrenum flǣsce ic bruce’, ne eart þū on þǣm lēogende; besēo tō þīnre dohtor.”
Mid þȳ þe se cyning gehīerde þæt Apollonius þone rædels swā rihte ārǣdde, þā ondrēd hē þæt hit tō wīdcūþ wǣre, besēah þā mid ierlicum andwlitan tō him and cwæþ, “Þū geonga mann, þū eart feorr fram rihte. Þū dwelast, and nis nāht þæt þū segst. Ac þū hæfst behēafdunge geearnod. Nū lǣte ic þē tō þrītigra daga fæce, þæt þū beþence þonne rædels āriht; and þū siþþan onfō mīnre dohtor tō wīfe. And gif þū þæt ne dēst, þū scealt oncnāwan þone gesettan dōm.” Þā wearþ Apollonius swīðe gedrēfed, and mid his gefērum on scip āstāg, and rēow oþþæt hē becōm tō Tyrum.
Sōþlīce æfter þǣm, þā Apollonius āfaren wæs, Antiochus se cyning him tō gecīegde his dihtnere, se wæs Thaliarcus gehaten. “Thaliarce, ealre mīnra dīegolnessa mīn se getrēowesta þegn, wite þū þæt Apollonius āriht ārǣdde mīnne rædels. Āstīg nū hrædlīce on scip and far æfter him; and þonne þū him tō becume, þonne ācwel þū hine, mid īsene, oþþe mid attre, þæt þū mæge frēodōm onfōn þonne þū ongēan cymst.” Thaliarcus sōna swā hē þæt gehīerde, hē genām mid him gē feoh gē āttor and on scip āstāg and fōr æfter þǣm unsceþþigan Apollonīe, oþþæt hē tō his ēðle becōm. Ac Apollonius þēahhwæðre ǣr becōm tō his āgenan, and intō his hūse ēode, and his bōcciste untȳnde, and āsmēade þone rædels æfter ealra ūþwitena and Chaldea wīsdōme.
Mid þȳ þe hē nāht elles ne onfunde būtan þæt hē ǣr geþōhte, hē cwæþ þā tō him selfum, “Hwǣt dēst þū nū Apolloni? Þæs cyninges rædels þū āsmēadest, and þū his dohtor ne onfēnge. Forþǣm þū eart nū fordēmed þæt þū ācweald wurde.” And hē þā ūt ēode, and hēt his scip mid hwǣte gehlæstan, and mid miclum gewihte goldes and seolfres, and mid manigfealdum and genihtsumum rēafum; and swā mid fēawum þǣm getrēowestum mennum on scip āstāg, on þǣre þriddan tīde þǣre nihte, and slōg ūt on þā sǣ. Þā þȳ æfrtran dæge wæs Apollonius gesōht and geāscod, ac hē ne wæs nāhwǣr funden. Þǣr wearþ þā micel murcnung and ormǣte wōp, swā þæt se hēaf swēgde geond ealle þā ceastre. Sōþlīce swā micele lufe hæfde eall sēo ceasterwaru tō him, þæt hīe lange tīd ēodon ealle unscorene and sīdfeaxe, and heora wǣferlican plegan forleton, and heora bæða belucon.
Þā þā þās þing þus gedōn wǣron on Tyran, þā becōm se foresægd Thaliarcus, se wæs fram Antiochio þǣm cyninge. Hē wæs āsended tō þǣm þæt hē sceolde Apollonium ācwellan. Þā hē gesēah þæt eall þās þing belocen wǣron, þā cwæþ hē tō ānum cnapan, “Swā þū gesund sīe, sæge mē for hwilcum intingum þēos ceaster wunīe on swā miclum hēafe and wōpe.”
Him andswarode se cnapa and þus cwæþ, “Ēalā hū mānful mann þū eart, þū þe wāst þæt þū æfter āscast! Oþþe hwæt is manna þe nite, þæt þēos ceasterwaru on hēafe wunaþ, forþǣm þe Apollonius se ealdormann fǣringa nāhwǣr ne ætīewde, siþþan hē ongēan cōm fram Antiochio þǣm cyninge?”
Þā þā Thaliarcus þæt gehīerde, hē mid miclan gefēan tō scipe gewende, and mid gewīsre seglunge binnon ānum dæge cōm tō Antiochian, and ēode in tō þǣm cyninge, and cwæþ, “Hlāford cyning, glada nū and blissa. Forþǣm þe Apollonius him ondrēd þīnes rīces mægenes, swā þæt hē ne dearr nāhwǣr gewunian.”
Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Flēon hē mæg, ac hē ætflēon ne mæg.” Hē þā Antiochus se cyning gesette þis gebann, þus cweðende, “Swā hwilc mann swā mē Apollonium lifiende gebringeþ, ic him giefe fīftig punda goldes; and þǣm þe mē his hēafod tō gebringeþ, ic giefe him hundtēontig punda goldes.”
Þā þā þis gebann þus geset wæs, þā wǣron mid gītsunge beswicene, nā þæt ān his fīend ac ēac swilce his frīend, and him æfter fōron and hine geond ealle eorðan sōhton, gē on dūnlandum, gē on wudalandum, gē on dīeglum stōwum, ac hē ne wearþ nāhwǣr funden. Þā hēt se cyning scipu gegearcian, and him æfter faran. Ac hit wæs lang ǣr þǣm þe þā scipu gegearcode wǣron; and Apollonius becōm ǣr tō Tharsum. Þā sume dæge ēode hē be strande, þā gesēah hine sum his cūðra manna se wæs Hellanicus genemnod, se þā ǣrest þider cōm. Þā ēode hē tō Apollonium and cwæþ, “Wel gesund hlāford Apolloni!”
Þā forsēah hē Apollonius ceorlisces mannes grētinge, æfter rīcra manna gewunan. Hellanicus hine eft sōna gegrētte and cwæþ, “Wel gesund Apolloni, and ne fōrsēo þū ceorliscne mann þe biþ mid weorþfullum þēawum gefrætwod! Ac gehīer nū fram mē þæt þū selfe nāst: Þē is sōþlīce micel þearf þæt þū þē warnīe, forþǣm þe þū eart fordēmed.”
Þā cwæþ Apollonius, “Hwā meahte mē fordēman, mīnre āgenre þēode ealdormann?”
Hellanicus cwæþ, “Antiochus se cyning.”
Apollonius cwæþ, “For hwilcum intingum hæfþ hē mē fordēmed?”
Hellanicus sægde, “Forþǣm þe þū gierndest þæt þū wǣre þæt se fæder is.”
Apollonius cwæþ, “Miclum ic eom fordēmed.”
Hellanicus sægde, “Swā hwilc mann swā þē lifiende tō him bringþ, onfō se fīftig punda goldes; se þe him bringe þīn hēafod, onfō se hundtēontig punda goldes. Forþǣm ic þē lǣre þæt þū flēo and beorge þīnum līfe.”
Æfter þissum wordum, Hellanicus fram him gewende; and Apollonius hēt hine eft tō him geclipian and cwæþ tō him, “Þæt wierresta þing þū dydest þæt þū mē warnodest. Nim nū hēr æt mē hundtēontig punda goldes, and far tō Antiochio þǣm cyninge, and secge him þæt mē sīe þæt hēafod fram þǣm hneccan ācorfen, and bring þæt word þǣm cyninge tō blisse. Þonne hæfst þū mēde and ēac clǣne handa fram þæs unsceþþigan blōdes.”
Þā cwæþ Hellianicus, “Ne geweorðe þæt hlāford, þæt ic mēde nime æt þē for þisum þingum; forþǣm þe mid gōdum mannum nis naðer ne gold ne seolfor wiþ gōdes mannes frēondscipe wiþmeten.” Hīe tōēodon þā mid þissum wordum. And Apollonius sōna gemette ōðerne cūðne man ongēan hine gān þæs nama wæs Stranguilio gehaten.
“Hlāford geonga Apolloni, hwæt dest þū þus gedrēfedum mōde on þissum lande?”
Apollonius cwæþ, “Ic gehīerde secgan þæt ic wǣre fordēmed.”
Stranguilio cwæþ, “Hwā fordēmde þē?”
Apollonius cwæþ, “Antiochus se cyning.”
Stranguilio cwæþ, “For hwilcum intingum?”
Apollonius sægde, “Forþǣm þe ic bæd his dohtor mē tō gemæccan, be þǣre ic mæg tō sōðe secgan þæt hēo his āgen gemæcca wǣre. Forþǣm gif hit geweorðan mæg, ic wille mē bedīglian on ēowrum ēðle.”
Þā cwæþ Stranguilio, “Hlāford Apolloni, ūre ceaster is þearfende, and ne mæg þīne æðelborennesse ācuman. Forþǣm þe wē þoliaþ þone heardestan hungor and þone rēðestan, and mīnre ceasterwarum nis nān hǣle hyht. Ac se wælhrēowesta stent ætforan ūrum ēagum.”
Þā cwæþ Apollonius, “Mīn se lēofesta frēond Stranguilio, þancas Gode þæt hē mē flīeman hider tō ēowrum gemǣran gelǣdde. Ic selle ēowrum ceasterwarum hundtēontig þūsenda mittan hwǣtes, gif gē mīnne flēam bedīgliaþ.”
Mid þȳ þe Stranguilio þæt gehīerde, hē hine āstreahte tō his fōtum and cwæþ, “Hlāford Apolloni, gif þū þissere hungrige ceasterwaran gehelpest, nā þæt ān þæt wē willaþ þīnne flēam bedīglian, ac ēac swilce þē nēod gebȳreþ. Wē willaþ campian for þīnre hǣle.”
Þā āstāg Apollonius on þæt dōmsetl on þǣre strǣte and cwæþ tō þǣm andweardum ceasterwarum. “Gē Tharsisce ceasterwaran, ic Apollonius se Tyrisca ealdorman ēow cȳðe, þæt ic gelīefe þæt gē willan bēon gemyndige þissere fremfulnesse and mīnne flēam bedīglian. Wite ēac þæt Antiochus se cyning mē āflīemed hæfþ of mīnum earda. Ac for ēowre gesǣlðe gefultumiend gōde, ic eom hider cumen. Ic selle ēow sōþlīce hundtēontig þūsenda mittan hwǣtes, tō þǣm weorðe þe ic hit gebōhte on mīnum lande.”
Þā þā þæt folc þæt gehīerde, hīe wǣron blīðe gewordene, and him georne þancodon, and tōgeflites þone hwǣte up bǣron. Hwæt þā Apollonius forlēt his þone weorþfullan cynedōm and mangeres naman þǣr genām mā þonne giefendes, and þæt weorþ þe hē mid þǣm hwǣte genām hē āgēaf sōna ongēan tō þǣre ceastre bōte. Þæt folc wearþ þā swā fægen his cystignessa and swā þancful, þæt hīe worhton him āne onlīcnesse of āre, þe on þǣre strǣte stōd. And mid þǣre swīðran handa þone hwǣte hlōd and mid þǣm winstran fēt þā mittan træd, and þǣron þus āwriton: ‘Þās gifu sealde sēo ceasterwaru on Tharsum, Apollonio þǣm Tyriscan, forþǣm þe hē þæt folc of hungre ālīesde, and heora ceastre gestaðolode.’
Æfter þissum hit gelamp binnon fēawum mōnðum, þæt Stranguilio and Dionisiade his wīf gelǣrdon Apollonium þæt hē fērde on scipe tō Pentapolim þǣre Ciriniscan byrg, and cwǣdon, þæt hē meahte þǣr bedīglod bēon and þǣr wunian; and þæt folc hine þā mid unāsecgendlicre weorþmynte tō scipe gelǣddon; and Apollonius hīe bæd ealle grētan and on scip āstāg. Mid þȳ þe hīe ongunnon þā rōwan, and hīe forþweard wǣron on heora weg. Þā wearþ þǣre sǣ smyltnesse āwended fǣringa betwux twǣm tīdum, and wearþ micel hrēohnes āweaht, swā þæt sēo sǣ cnysede þā heofonlican tungla, and þæt gewealc þāra ȳða hwoðerode mid windum. Þǣr tōēacen cōmon ēast-norðerne windas, and þæt angrislic sūþwestern wind him ongēan stōd; and þæt scip eall tōbærst on þissere egeslican hrēohnesse. Apollonius gefēran ealle forwurdon tō dēaðe; and Apollonius āna becōm mid sunde tō Pentapolim þǣm Ciriniscan lande, and þǣr ūpēode on þǣm strande. Þā stōd hē nacod on þǣm strande and behēold þā sǣ and cwæþ, “Ēalā þū sǣ Neptune, menna berēafigend and unsceþþigra beswīcend. Þū eart wælhrēowra þonne Antiochus se cyning; for mīnum þingum þū gehēolde þās wælhrēownesse, þæt ic þurh þē geweorðe wǣdla and þearfa, and þæt se wælhrēowa cyning mē þȳ ēaðe fordōn meahte. Hwider mæg ic nū faran? Hwǣs mæg ic biddan, oþþe hwā giefe þǣm uncūðan līfes fultum?”
Mid þȳ þe hē þās þing wæs sprecende tō him selfum, þā fǣringa gesēah hē sumne fiscere gān. Tō þǣm hē besēah and þus sārlīce cwæþ, “Gemiltsa mē þū ealda mann! Sīe þæt þū sīe, gemiltsa mē nacodum, forlidenum! Næs nā of earmlicum byrdum geborenum; and þæs þe þū gearu forewite hwǣm þū gemiltsīe. Ic eom Apollonius se Tyrisca ealdorman.”
Þā sōna swā se fiscere gesēah þæt se geonga mann æt his fōtum læg, hē mid mildheortnesse hine ūpāhōf and lǣdde hine mid him tō his hūse, and þā ēstas him beforan legde þe hē him tō bēodenne hæfde. Þā giet hē wolde be his mihte māran fæstnesse him gecȳðan, tōslāt þā his wǣfels on twā and sealde Apollonīe þone healfan dǣl, þus cweðende, “Nim þæt ic þē tō sellenne habbe and gā intō þǣre ceastre. Wēn is þæt þū gemēte sumne þæt þē gemiltsīe. Gif þū ne finde nānne þe þē gemiltsian wille, wend þonne hider ongēan and genyhtsumīe ūnc bǣm mīne lȳtlan ǣhta, and far þē on fiscaþ mid mē. Þēah hwæðre ic myndgīe þē gif þū fultumiendum becymst tō þīnum ǣrran weorþmynte, þæt þū ne forgiete mīne þearfendlican gegierelan.”
Þā cwæþ Apollonius, “Gif ic þē ne geþence þonne mē bet biþ, ic wȳsce þæt ic eft forlidennesse gefare and þīnne gelīcan eft ne gemēte.”
Æfter þissum wordum hē ēode on þone weg þe him getǣht wæs, oþþæt hē becōm tō þǣre ceastre geate and þǣr inēode. Mid þȳ þe hē þōhte hwone hē biddan meahte līfes fultum, þā gesēah hē ānne nacodne cnapan geond þā strǣte iernan. Se wæs mid ele gesmerod and mid scȳtan begyrd and bær geongra menna plegan on handa; tō þǣm bæþstede belimpende, and clipode micelre stefne and cwæþ, “Gehīere gē ceasterwaran! Gehīere gē elþēodige, frīge and þēowe, æðele and unæðele! Se bæþstede is open!”
Þā þā Apollonius þæt gehīerde, hē hine unscrȳdde þǣm healfan sciccelse þe hē onhæfde, and ēode intō þǣm þwēale; and mid þȳ þe hē behēold heora ānra gehwilcne on heora weorce, hē sōhte his gelīcan, ac hē ne meahte hine þǣr findan on þǣm flocce. Þā fǣringa cōm Arcestrates ealre þǣre þēode cyning, mid micelre menige his menna, and inēode on þæt bæþ. Þā ongann se cyning plegan wiþ his gefēran mid þōðere; and Apollonius hine gemengde swā swā God wolde on þæs cyninges plegan, and iernende þone þōðor gelǣhte, and mid swiftre hrædnesse geslegene ongēan gesende tō þǣm plegendan cyninge. Eft hē ongēan āsende, hē hrædlīce slōg, swā he hine næfre feallan ne lēt. Se cyning þā oncnēow þæs geongan snelnesse þæt hē wiste þæt hē næfde his gelīcan on þǣm plegan. Þā cwæþ hē tō his gefēran, “Gāþ ēow heonon; þes cniht, þæs þe mē þyncþ, is mīn gelīca.”
Þā þā Apollonius gehīerde þæt se cyning hine herede, hē arn hrædlīce and genēalǣhte tō þǣm cyninge, and mid gelǣredre handa hē swang þone top mid swā micelre swiftnesse, þæt þǣm cyninge wæs geþūht swilce hē of ielde tō geoguðe gewend wǣre. And æfter þǣm on his cynesetle hē him gecwēmlīce þegnode, and þā þā hē ūt ēode of þǣm bæðe, hē hine lǣdde be þǣre handa, and him þā siþþan þanon gewende þæs weges þe hē ǣr cōm. Ða cwæþ se cyning tō his mennum, siþþan Apollonius āgān wæs, “Ic swerīe þurh þā gemǣnan hǣle þæt ic mē næfre bet ne baðode þonne ic dyde tōdæg; nāt ic þurh hwilces geonges mannes þēnunge.” Þā besēah hē hine tō ānum his manna and cwæþ, “Gā and gewite hwæt se geonga mann sīe þe mē tōdæg swā wel gehīersumode.”
Se mann þā ēode æfter Apollonio. Mid þȳ þe hē gesēah þæt hē wæs mid horigum sciccelse bewǣfed, þā wende hē ongēan tō þǣm cyninge and cwæþ, “Se geonga mann þe þū æfter āscodest is forliden mann.”
Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Þurh hwæt wāst þū þæt?”
Se mann him andswarode and cwæþ, “Þēah hē hit self forswigīe, his gegierela hine gesweotolaþ.”
Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Gā hrædlīce and sege him þæt se cyning bit þē þæt þū cume tō his gereorde.”
Þā Apollonius þæt gehīerde, he þǣm gehīersumode and ēode forþ mid þǣm menn, oþþæt hē becōm tō þæs cyninges healle. Þā ēode se mann in beforan tō þǣm cyninge and cwæþ, “Se forlidena mann is cumen þe þū æfter sendest, ac hē ne mæg for scame ingān būtan scrūde.” Þā hēt se cyning hine sōna gescrȳdan mid weorþfullan scrūde, and hēt hine ingān tō þǣm gereorde. Þā ēode Apollonius in, and gesæt þǣr him getǣht wæs, ongēan þone cyning. Þǣr wearþ þā sēo þēnung ingeboren, and æfter þǣm cynelice gebēorscipe, and Apollonius nān þing ne æt, þēah þe ealle ōðre menn ǣton and blīðe wǣron; ac hē behēold þæt gold and þæt seolfor and þā dēorwyrðan rēaf and þā bēodas and þā cynelican þēnunga.
Þā þā hē þis eall mid sārnesse behēold, þā sæt sum eald and sum ofēstig ealdormann be þǣm cyninge; mid þȳ þe hē gesēah þæt Apollonius swā sārlīce sæt, and ealle þing behēold, and nān þing ne æt, þā cwæþ hē tō þǣm cyninge, “Þū gōda cyning, efne þes mann þe þū swā wel wiþ gedēst, hē is swīðe ofēstful for þīnum gōde.”
Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Þē misþyncþ; sōþlīce þes geonga mann ne ofēstaþ on nānum þingum þe hē hēr gesīehþ, ac hē cȳð þæt hē hæfþ fela forloren.” Þā besēah Arcestrates se cyning blīðum andwlitan tō Apollonio and cwæþ, “Þū geonga mann, bēo blīðe mid ūs and gehyht on God, þæt þū mōte self tō þǣm sēlran becuman.”
Mid þȳ þe se cyning þās word gecwæþ, þā fǣringa þǣr ēode in þæs cyninges geonge dohtor, and cyste hire fæder and þā ymbsittendan. Þā hēo becōm tō Apollonio, þā gewende hēo ongēan tō hire fæder and cwæþ, “Þu gōda cyning and mīn se lēofesta fæder, hwæt is þes geonga mann, þe ongēan þē on swā weorþlicum setle sit, mid sārlicum andwlitan? Nāt ic hwæt hē besorgaþ.”
Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Lēofe dohtor, þes geonga mann is forliden, and hē gecwēmde mē menna betst on þǣm plegan, forþǣm ic hine gelaðode tō þissum ūrum gebēorscipe. Nāt ic hwæt hē is ne hwanon hē is; ac gif þū wille witan hwæt hē sīe, āsca hine, forþǣm þe gedafenaþ þæt þū wite.”
Þā ēode þæt mægden tō Apollonio, and mid forwandiendre sprǣce cwæþ, “Þēah þū stille sīe and unrōt, þēah ic þine æðelborennesse on þē gesēo. Nū þonne gif þē tō hefig ne þynce, sæge mē þīnne naman, and þīn gelimp ārecce mē.”
Þā cwæþ Apollonius, “Gif þū for nēode āscast æfter mīnum naman, ic secge þē, ic hine forlēas on sǣ. Gif þū wilt mīne æðelborennesse witan, wite þū þæt ic hīe forlēt on Tharsum.”
Þæt mægden cwæþ, “Sæge mē gewīslicor, þæt ic hit mæge understandan.” Apollonius þā sōþlīce hire āreahte ealle his gelimp, and æt þǣre sprǣce ende him fēollon tearas of þǣm ēagum.
Mid þȳ þe se cyning þæt gesēah, hē bewende hine þā tō þǣre dohtor and cwæþ, “Lēofe dohtor, þu gesyngodest, mid þȳ þe þū woldest witan his naman and his gelimp; þū hæfst nū geednīwod his ealde sār; ac ic bidde þē þæt þū giefe him swā hwæt swā þū wille.”
Þā þā þæt mægden gehīerde þæt hire wæs ālīefed fram hire fæder þæt hēo ǣr hire self gedōn wolde, þā cwæþ hēo tō Apollonio, “Apolloni, sōþlīce þū eart ūre; forlǣt þīne murcunge, and nū ic mīnes fæder lēafe hæbbe, ic gedō þē weligne.” Apollonius hire þæs þancode, and se cyning blissode on his dohtor welwillendnesse and hire tō cwæþ, “Lēofe dohtor, hāt feccan þīne hearpan, and gecȳþ þē tō þīnum frīend, and āfeorsa fram þǣm geongan his sārnesse.” Þā ēode hēo ūt and hēt feccan hire hearpan, and sōna swā hēo hearpian ongann, hēo mid wynsumum sange gemengde þǣre hearpan swēg. Þā ongunnon ealle þā men hīe herian on hire swēgcræft, and Apollonius āna swigode. Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Apolloni, nū þū dēst yfele, forþǣm þe ealle menn heriaþ mīne dohtor on hire swēgcræfte, and þu āna hīe swigende tǣlst.” Apollonius cwæþ, “Ēalā þū gōda cyning, gif þū mē gelīefst, ic secge þæt ic ongiete þæt sōþlīce þīn dohtor gefēoll on swēgcræft, ac hēo næfþ hine nā wel geleornod; ac hāt mē nu sellan þā hearpan, þonne wāst þū þæt þū nū giet nāst.” Arcestrates se cyning cwæþ, “Apolloni, ic oncnāwe sōþlīce þæt þū eart on eallum þingum wel gelǣred.” Þā hēt se cyning sellan Apollonīe þā hearpan. Apollonius þā ūt ēode and hine scrȳdde and sette ānne cynehelm uppan his hēafod and nām þā hearpan on his hand and inēode, and swā stōd þæt se cyning and ealle þā ymbsittendan wēndon þæt he nǣre Apollonius ac þæt hē wǣre Apollines þāra hǣðenra god. Þā wearþ stilnes and swīge geworden innan þǣre healle; and Apollonius his hearpenægel genam, and hē þā hearpestrengas mid cræfte āstyrian ongann, and þǣre hearpan swēg mid wynsumum sange gemengde. And se cyning self and ealle þe þǣr andwearde wǣron micelre stefne clipodon and hine heredon. Æfter þissum forlēt Apollonius þā hearpan and plegode and fela fægera þinga þǣr forþtēah, þe þǣm folce ungecnawen wæs and ungewunelic; and him eallum þearle līcode ǣlc þāra þinga þe hē forþtēah. Sōþlīce mid þȳ þe þæs cyninges dohtor gesēah þæt Apollonius on eallum gōdum cræftum swā wel wæs getogen, þā gefēoll hire mōd on his lufe. Þā æfter þæs bēorscipes geendunge, cwæþ þæt mægden tō þǣm cyninge, “Lēofa fæder, þū līefdest mē lȳtle ǣr þæt ic mōste giefan Apollonio swā hwæt swā ic wolde of þīnum goldhorde.” Arcestrates se cyning cwæþ tō hire, “Gief him swā hwæt swā þū wille.” Hēo þā swīðe blīðe ūtēode and cwæþ, “Lārēow Apolloni, ic giefe þē be mīnes fæder lēafe, twā hund punda goldes, and fēower hund punda gewihte seolfres, and þone mǣstan dǣl dēorweorðan rēafes, and twēntig þēowa manna.” And hēo þā þus cwæþ tō þǣm þēowum mannum, “Beraþ þās þing mid ēow þe ic behēt Apollonio mīnum lārēowe, and lecgaþ innan būre, beforan mīnum frīendum.” Þis wearþ þā þus gedōn, æfter þǣre cwēne hǣse, and ealle þā menn hire gife heredon þe hīe gesawon. Þā sōþlīce geendode se gebēorscipe, and þā menn ealle ārison, and grēton þone cyning and þā cwēne, and bǣdon hīe gesunde bēon, and hām gewendon. Ēac swilce Apollonius cwæþ, “Þū gōda cyning and earmra gemiltsiend, and þū cwēn lāre lufiend, bēon gē gesunde.” Hē besēah ēac tō þǣm þēowum mannum þe þæt mægden him forgiefen hæfde, and him cwæþ tō, “Nīmaþ þas þing mid ēow þe mē sēo cwēn forgēaf, and gān wē sēcan ūre giesthūs þæt wē magon ūs gerestan.” Þā ādrēd þæt mægden þæt hēo næfre eft Apollonium ne gesawe swā hraðe swā hēo wolde, and ēode þā tō hire fæder and cwæþ, “Þū gōda cyning, līcaþ þē wel þæt Apollonius þe þurh ūs tōdæg gegōdod is, þus heonon fare, and cuman yfele menn and berēafian hine?” Se cyning cwæþ, “Wel þū cwǣde. Hāt him findan hwǣr hē hine mæge weorþlīcost gerestan.” Þā dyde þæt mægden swā hire beboden wæs, and Apollonius onfeng þǣre wununge þe him betǣht wæs and þǣr inēode, Gode þanciende þe him ne forwiernde cynelices weorþscipes and frōfre. Ac þæt mægden hæfde unstille niht, mid þǣre lufe onǣled þāra worda and sanga þe hēo gehīerde æt Apollonīe; and nā leng hēo ne gebād þonne hit dæg wæs, ac ēode sōna swā hit lēoht wæs, and gesæt beforan hire fæder bedde. Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Lēofe dohtor, for hwȳ eart þū þus ǣrwacol?” Þæt mægden cwæþ, “Mē aweahton þā gecneordnessa þe ic giestrandæg gehīerde. Nū bidde ic þē forþǣm, þæt þū befæste mē ūrum cuman Apollonīe tō lāre.” Þā wearþ se cyning þearle geblissod and hēt feccan Apollonium and him tō cwæþ, “Mīn dohtor giernþ þæt hēo mōte leornian æt þē þā gesǣligan lāre þe þū canst; and gif þū wilt þissum þingum gehīersum bēon, ic swerīe þē þurh mīnes rīces mægena, þæt swā hwæt swā þū on sǣ forlure, ic þē þæt on lande gestaðolīe.” Þā þā Apollonius þæt gehīerde, hē onfēng þǣm mægdene tō lāre, and hire tǣhte swā wel swā hē self geleornode. Hit gelamp þā æfter þissum, binnan fēawum tīdum, þæt Arcestrates se cyning hēold Apollonius hand on handa, and ēodon swā ūt on þǣre ceastre strǣte. Þā æt nīehstan comon þǣr gān ongēan hīe þrīe gelǣrede weras and æðelborene, þā lange ǣr gierndon þæs cyninges dohtor; hīe þā ealle þrīe tōgædere ānre stefne grētton þone cyning. Þā smearcode se cyning and him tō besēah and þus cwæþ, “Hwæt is þæt þæt gē mē ānre stefne grētton?” Þā andswarode heora ān and cwæþ, “We bǣdon gefyrn þīnre dohtor, and þū ūs oft hrædlīce mid elcunge geswenctest; forþǣm wē cōmon hider tōdæg þus tōgædere. Wē sindon þīne ceastergewaran, of æðelum gebyrdum geborene; nū bidde wē þē þæt þū gecēose þē ānne of ūs þrim, hwilcne þū wille þē tō āðme habban.” Þā cwæþ se cyning, “Nabbe gē nā gōdne tīman āredodne; mīn dohtor is nū swīðe bisig ymbe hire leornunge; ac þȳ lǣs þe ic ēow ā leng slæcce, āwrītaþ ēowre naman on gewrite, and hire morgengife; þonne āsende ic þā gewritu mīnre dohtor, þæt hēo self gecēose hwilcne ēower hēo wille.” Þā dydon þā cnihtas swā, and se cyning nām þā gewritu and geinseglode hīe mid his hringe and sealde Apollonio þus cweðende, “Nim nū lārēow Apolloni, swā hit þē ne mislīcīe, and bring þīnum lǣringmǣdene.” Þā nām Apollonius þā gewritu and ēode tō þǣre cynelican healle. Mid þǣm þe þæt mægden gesēah Apollonium, þā cwæþ hēo, “Lārēow, hwȳ gǣst þū āna?” Apollonius cwæþ, “Hlǣfdige, nim þās gewritu þe þīn fæder þē sende and rǣd.” Þæt mægden nam and rǣdde þāra þrēora cnihta naman ac hēo ne funde nā þone naman þǣron þe hēo wolde. Þā hēo þā gewritu oferrǣd hæfde, þā besēah hēo tō Apollonio and cwæþ, “Lārēow, ne ofþyncþ hit þē gif ic þus wer gecēose?” Apollonius cwæþ, “Nā, ac ic blissīe swīðor þæt þū meaht þurh þā lāre, þe þū æt mē underfēnge, þē self on gewrite gecȳðan hwilcne heora þū wille; mīn willa is þæt þū þē wer gecēose þǣr þū self wille.” Þæt mægden cwæþ, “Ēalā lārēow, gif þū mē lufodest þū hit besorgodest!” Æfter þissum wordum hēo mid mōdes ānrǣdnesse āwrāt ōðer gewrit and þæt geinseglode and sealde Apollonio. Apollonius hit þā ūt bær on þā strǣte and sealde þǣm cyninge. Þæt gewrit wæs þus gewriten: ‘Þū gōda cyning and mīn se lēofesta fæder, nu þīn mildheortnes mē lēafe sealde þæt ic self mōste cēosan hwilcne wer ic wolde, ic secge þē tō sōðe þone forlidenan mann ic wille; and gif þū wundrīe þæt swā scamfæst fæmne swā unforwandigendlīce þās word āwrāt, þonne wite þū þæt ic hæbbe þurh weax āboden, þe nāne scame ne cann, þæt ic self þē for scame secgan ne meahte.’ Þā þā se cyning hæfde þæt gewrit oferrǣden, þā niste hē hwilcne forlidenne hēo nemde. Besēah þā tō þǣm þrim cnihtum and cwæþ, “Hwilc ēower is forliden?” Þā cwæþ heora ān, se hātte Ardalius, “Ic eom forliden.” Se ōðer him andwyrde and cwæþ, “Swīga þū! Ādl þē fornime þæt þū ne bēo hāl ne gesund! Mid mē þū bōccræft leornodest, and þū næfre būtan þǣre ceastre geate fram mē ne cōme. Hwǣr gefōre þū forlidennesse?” Mid þȳ þe se cyning ne meahte findan hwilc heora forliden wǣre, hē besēah tō Apollonio and cwæþ, “Nim þū Apolloni þis gewrit and rǣd hit; ēaðe mæg geweorðan þæt þū wite þæt ic nāt, þū þe þǣr andweard wǣre.” Þā nām Apollonius þæt gewrit and rǣdde, and sōna swā hē ongēat þæt hē gelufod wæs fram þǣm mægdene, his andwlita eall ārēodode. Þā se cyning þæt gesēah, þā nam hē Apollonies hand, and hine hwōn fram þǣm cnihtum gewende and cwæþ, “Wāst þū þone forlidenan mann?” Apollonius cwæþ, “Þū gōda cyning, gif þīn willa biþ, ic hine wāt.” Þā gesēah se cyning þæt Apollonius mid rōsan rude wæs eall oferbrǣded, þā ongēat hē þone cwide and þus cwæþ tō him, “Blissa blissa, Apolloni, forþǣm þe mīn dohtor gewilnaþ þæs þe mīn willa is. Ne mæg sōþlīce on þyllicum þingum nān þing geweorðan būtan Godes willan.” Arcestrates besēah tō þǣm þrim cnihtum and cwæþ, “Sōþ is þæt ic eow ǣr sægde, þæt gē ne cōmon on gedafenlicre tīde mīnre dohtor tō biddenne; ac þonne hēo mæg hīe fram hire lāre geǣmtian þonne sende ic eow word.” Þā gewendon hīe hām mid þissere andsware; and Arcestrates se cyning hēold forþǣm Apollonius hand and hine lǣdde hām mid him, nā swilce hē cuma wǣre ac swilce hē his āðum wǣre. Þā æt nīestan forlēt se cyning Apollonius hand, and ēode āna into þǣm būre þǣr his dohtor inne wæs and þus cwæþ, “Lēofe dohtor, hwǣm hæfst þū þē gecoren tō gemæccan?” Þæt mægden þā fēoll tō hire fæder fōtum and cwæþ, “Þū ārfæsta fæder, gehīer þīnre dohtor willan: ic lufīe þone forlidenan mann þe wæs þurh ungelimp beswicen; ac þȳ lǣs þe þē twēonīe þǣre spræce, Apollonium ic wille, mīnne lārēow; and gif þū mē him ne selst, þū forlǣtst þīne dohtor.” Se cyning þā sōþlīce ne meahte ārǣfian his dohtor tēaras, ac ārǣrde hīe ūp and hire tō cwæþ, “Lēofe dohtor, ne ondrǣd þū þē ǣniges þinges; þū hæfst gecoren þone wer þe mē wel līcaþ.” Ēode þā ūt and besēah tō Apollonio and cwæþ, “Lārēow Apolloni, ic smēade mīnre dohtor mōdes willan, þā āreahte hēo mē mid wōpe betwux ōðre sprǣce, þās þing þus cweðende, ‘Þū geswōre Apollonio, gif hē wolde gehīersumian mīnum willan on lāre, þæt þū woldest him geinnian swā hwæt swā sēo sǣ him ætbrægd. Nū forþǣm þe hē gehīersum wæs þīnre hǣse and mīnum willan1 þonne ic wilnīe þæt þū forgiefe him mēde, mid þȳ þe þū mē him selle tō gemæccan.’” Þā þȳ æftran dæge hēt sandas þǣm ymbsittendum ceastrum þā æðelborene gelaðian. Mid þȳ þe hīe becōmon, þā cwæþ hē, “Mīna hlāfordas, mīn dohtor wolde hire þone lārēow tō gemæccan; sōþlīce ic wilnīe ēow blissian, forþǣm þe mīn cild sīe sinhīwod tō wītan.” Þis cweðende, þā gesette hē þæt fæce heora brȳdgifta. Nū gelamp hit, þā þā hēo wearþ mid bearne, þā ēode hēo mid hire gemæccan Apollonio þǣm æðelinge be þǣm strande. And þonne on ancre rād fæger scip feorr, þā gesēah se ōðer þæt hit wæs his āgenes þēodes. Bewende þǣm scipere tō and cwæþ, “Hwanon eart þū?” Se mann andwyrde, “Of Tyrum.” Þā cwæþ Apollonius, “Mīna frēond, þū besprecst mīn āgenan landes.” Þā se mann cwæþ, “Cwist þū lā, eart þū Tyrisc?” Þā andswarode Apollonius and cwæþ, “Hit is swā þū gecwiðest.” Þā se scipere wunode his gesprec, “Cunne þū ealdormann þæs þēodes, se þe is Apollonius gehaten? Ic sēce hine; and hwonne þū hine gesēo, þā bid him blissian. Antiochus se cyning wæs mid heofonfȳre tōblāwen, and his dohtor samod. Apollonio gefēoll sēo cynerīce.” Þā onfēng hē tō þǣm fǣrlican worde full willan and cwæþ his gemæccan tō, “Þafast þū mīnum sīðe, þæt ic onfō þæt setl?” Þā sēo hlāfdige wēop and cwæþ him tō, “Mīna hlāford, se sīþ sīe lang, and gīet þū mē forlǣtan woldest! Þeahhwæðere gif þē þearf sīe þæt þū gǣst, þā faraþ wē tōgædere.” And þā hrædlīce ēode hēo hire fæder and sægde þā blīðan word þe þā gehīerde, þæt Antiochus and his dohtor fram þæs gebolgenan Godes rihtdōme wǣron mid heofonfȳre forslagen, and his feoh and his cynehelm tō hire gemæccan gefeallen; and æt nīehstan hēo bæd þæt hēo mid him gā tō gefēran. Þā wæs se cyning swīðe geblissod mid þǣm worde, and ēaðe meahte þafian; and hēt scipu heorum fare gegearcian. Hīe wǣron gehlæsted mid ealle þe him þorfte on þǣre fare; and mid þǣm ēac þā fērde cildfēstre sēo wæs Ligoridis gehatten, on forsteppunge þǣre geongan cwēne cenninge. Þā hire fæder ēode mid him tō þǣm strande, and hīe bū wel cysede and eft bewende hē hām. Mid þȳ þe hīe æt sǣ sumum dagum wǣron, þā āweahte egeslic hrēohnes; and sēo hlāfdige, þe þus gebrohte be þissum gelampe intō hrædlic earfoðe, þā him þūhte hēo forþfērde of līfe. Þā murcnunga and wōp hire hīredes wǣron fulnēah þǣm gelīcan þǣre hrēohnesse; and Apollonius, se wæs be þǣm hrēame ābregded, þā arn intō þæt būr, and behēold his fæger wīf swilce hēo gebyrgenwaru wǣre. Hē ātær his rēaf of his breoste, and wēorp hine mid tēarum and murcnunge on hire līflēasum līce. Þā clipode Apollonius, “Ēalā lēofe wīf, þæs micles Arcestrates dohtor, hū mæg ic þīn unblīðan fæder frēfran?” Hēr þā se scipstēorra inbrecende hine cwæþ, “Lēofe, hit fordēme ūs tō healdenne þæt līflēas līc on scipe; hāt weorpan hit intō þā sǣ.” Þā Apollonius andswarode, “Wrecca þe þū eart! Woldest þū ic þisne wlite on ȳðan weorpe, þone þe gehealp mē forlidenum and nacodum?” Þā clippiende his þēowum mennum, hēt him cist gegearwian, and clǣman þæt hlid mid teorwe. Hēt ēac lēaden gewrit mid þǣm līce, þe wæs gescrȳdded on cynelicum rēafum and gecynehelmod, and on þǣm ciste gelægd. Þā hē cysede hire cealde lippan and wēop þā sāre. Æfter þissum þā gehēt hē þearle be þǣm nīwanācennedan cilde, and þā sealde hises wīfes ealle þā lāfe tō þǣre sǣ. On þǣm þriddan dæge sōþlīce wæs þæt cist be þǣm ȳðum gedrifen tō Efeses strande, þe wǣre unfeorr þǣre wununge lǣces, þæs hātte Cerimon, se þǣre tīde ēode mid his leorningcnihta sume on þæt strand. Mid þȳ þe hē gesēah þæt cist forlǣten be þǣm wæterum, þā hēt his þēowum mennum hit underfōn hrædlīce, and beran hit tō his hūse. Þissum þus gedōn, geopenode hē hit, and onfand wlitig mægden, gescrȳded on cynelicum rēafum. Hwæt eall þā andweard folc besāwon hire ungelīfedlican fægernesse mid wundore! Forþǣm þe hēo wǣre wlites sunnbēam, on þǣm þe gebyrdu þinga gehwilcre geclǣne and full ēadig gefremede, and ne gefēoll hīe on nāhte būtan þǣm þe hēo hire þæt undēadlice gecynd ne hæfde. Hire feax wǣre gliteniende snāw, neoðan þǣm þe mielc hwītnesse hnifol smēðe and ungewrinclod blīðe lægde. Hire ēagan wǣren sēo gewendnes twēgra lēohtra tungla, nealles āgītan; forþǣm þe heora gesiht bewendon stīðre scame, þe ānhȳdig and forþweard mōd betǣht. Hire ēaganbrūwa fullfremmede wǣron; and hire fæger riht nosu ārās onmiddan þǣm andwlitan, sēo þe nǣre nā tō lange nā tō lȳtel. Hire hneccan wæs hwītra þonne þā sunnanlēoman, gefāg mid gimmum; and hire se wlita, se wæs full unāsecgendlices gefēan, gegēaf blisse him eallum hwǣm hīe behēold; and þēah þā hīe wel sōhton, ne meahton onfindan þǣr hire māra þonne þǣr sīe. Hire fægeran earmas wǣren bēamas wlitges trēowes, āstreahte of hire þæslican brēoste; tō þǣm þe þynne gescapene fingras, þe fram heofonfȳre oferscān ne wǣron, þǣr on setedon. Mid þȳ þe hēo hīm þūhte fulfremmed wīf, on þǣm þe þæs mōdes dryhtenlic lēoma, þe hire halig Scippend gestaðelode, dēorwyrþlīce ætīewed wæs. Ā sceal þā mægenes geweorc geþafian mid ōðerum gehwilcum; and forþǣm heonon cymþ eall eorðan wlite fram þæs ferhðes wynsumnesse. Ēac swā mann gesægde, þæt mōdes æðelnes fremme on manigfealdum wegum hire selfum þæt eorðan getēoh. Sīe swā hwæt sīe, sōþlīce wæs mōdes and līchaman sēo fulfremedostan gemengnes on þisre hlǣfdige, þe nū Cerimon geonfand. Þā cwæþ Cerimon, “Þū fægere mægden, hū cymst þū swā swīðost forlǣten?” Þā hē gesēah þæt gold, þe neoðan hire hēafod gelægd wæs, and þā bewende tō þǣm lēadenan gewrite. Þā se lǣce cwæþ, “Uton rǣdan hwæt hit ācȳðeþ.” Mid þȳ þe hē þæt openode, and þus rǣdde: ‘Swā hwā swā þū sīe, se þe þās ciste finde, ic bidde þē fōn tīen punda goldes; sell þā ōðer tīen tō līcþēnunge. Forþǣm þe þæt līc þe sēo bewrīehþ hæfþ gelǣten tēaras genōg þǣre frymðe hire līfes. Gif þū wiþsace mīne willan, þā onbelǣde þē cursas wiþ þǣm dōmes dæge, and sette þīn līchaman tō dēaðe, ungemǣred and ungebyrged.’ Þonne se lǣce þæt gerǣdde, þā hēt his þēawum mennum þæs murnendes bebode hīersumian. Þā ēac cwæþ se lǣce, “And ic behāte ārweorþlīce āspendan māra þonne his iermðe þearf is.” And sōna bæd hīe ād gearcian. Þā þā þis gedōn wæs and eall on dihte gelægd, þā cōm behealdan þǣre hlǣfdige þæs lǣces leorningcniht, se wæs geonge ac hæfde him ealdres wīsdōm. Mid þȳ þe hē smēade hire fægere wlitan forgeorne, þā þe gēo nū on þǣm āde gelægd wæs, þā cwæþ his lārēow him tō, “Þū cymst þæslīce; ic onbād þīn þisre hwīle. Onfō þē dēorwyrðes sealfes ampellan, and tō þisses beorhtan wihtes weorþscipe begēot hine on þone ād.” Mid þȳ þe se cniht him gehīersumode, and genēalǣhte hē þǣm līce, and þā hē tēah þā rēaf of hire brēoste, þā begēot on hire þā sealfe. Ac þā hē æthrān hisre handa hire heortan, þā wēnde hē þæt hēo gīet bēate. Hwæt mid miclum wundore æthrān se cniht þā ǣdran, and sōhte gif hire sum ǣðm of þǣm næsþrylum cōme. Þā onsette hirum hise lippan, and þā him þūhte þǣr līf wiþ dēaðe feaht. Mid þȳ þe hēt þǣm þēowum mennum and þā bæd him speldru lecgan tō þæs ādes hyrnena gehwilcum. Þā þis gedōn wæs, þā nū flēow þæt blōd, þe ǣr gerenned wæs; and se cniht, þe tō þǣre wendunge wacol wæs, clipode his lārēowe, “Hēo leofaþ, hēo leofaþ! Þū lȳt hǣtst mē weorþ; cum and sēo.” Þā bær þā hlǣfdige his āgenan būre, and lægde wulle scrēade on hire brēoste, þā þe hē ǣr indrencte on ele and on him wyrmde. Sōþlīce þæt gerenned blōd wearþ gemolten, and se ferhþ ongēan sprang tō þǣm mearge; forþǣm þus hire ēagan openodon and ǣðm ongēan cōm. Þā cwæþ þæt mægden, “Hwǣt eart þū? Ne æthrīnst þū mē swā swā ic æthrinen ne sīe; forþǣm þe ic eom cyninges dohtor and wīf.” Þā se cniht, se was nū full wynne tō hire stefne wlite, sōna oncōm his lārēowes būr, and reahte hē him hwæs gelamp. Þā se lǣce andswarode, “Þīn lǣcecræft is gōd; ic mǣrsīe þīn cræft and wundrīe þīnre forþancolnesse. Oncnāw gelǣrednesse wyrda, ne bēo þū nā lārcræftes unþancol. Onfō nū þīne mēde; forþǣm þe sēo hlǣfdig gebrōhte hire micel gold.” Hēt þā beran ēstas and rēafas hire, and gegēaf hire þone sēlostan lǣcedōm. Binnon fēawum dagum hire werpe ācȳðde hēo hire æðelborenesse and gelimp; and se gōda lǣce, þe nū þæt gelimp him earmode, forþǣm onfēng him hīe tō dohtor. Ac hē wēop manega tēaras þonne hēo gebæd hise lēaf tō sittenne tōmiddes þā Dianan mægða. Þēahhwæðre ne tǣlde hē nān; and mid þȳ þe hē setede hīe mid sumum fǣmnum on þāra gydena micellicum healle. Þā þās þing gedōn wǣron, þā becōm Apollonius, se wæs fram Godes gōdre handa gelǣdde, tō Tharsum; and þā fērde of scipe and sōhte þā healle Strangulionis and Dionsiades. Þā hīe hine wel gegrētton, þā reahte hē his gelamp. “Þēah earming ic sīe tō þæs lēofes wīfes forþfarunge, þēah blissīe ic gīet nū tō þisses cildes gecynde. Inc wille ic hīe gelǣtan; forþǣm þe ic nolde becuman eft Arcestrate þǣm cyninge siþþan his dohter forþfērde Ac lǣr mīn cild wiþ incer āgenum dohtor Philothemian, and hātaþ hīe Thasia æfter þǣre ceastre naman. Þȳ mā wolde incer fæstian hire cildfestre, sēo is Ligoridis gehaten, forþǣm þe hire unāgǣledlic trēownes hīe geearnīe sēlran mēde.” Æfter þissum wordum sealde hē hīe him, and mid hire ēac him gegēaf micela gifa goldes and seolfres and dēorwyrðlicra rēafa. Hē þā swōr āþ þæt hē gā unscorenne and sīdfeaxne oþþæt his dohtor tō hire brȳdgifta dæge cymþ. Þā Strangulio, þe wēop tō þæs āðes dolwillene, onfēng þā þæt cild, and onhēt hit lǣran mid þǣm swīðostan ymbeþance. Mid þȳ þe Apollonius, se þe wæs tō þǣre forewearde gesēmed, þā āstāg on scip and fērde tō ōðerum þēodum. Mid þȳ þe þās þing belumpon, þā becōm Thasia hire fīftan gēare, and onfēng frīge lāre wiþ þǣm gēongan gefēran, þe wæs Philothemia gehatten. Þā þā wæs fēowertīene wintra, þā cōm hēo hām of lārhūse and gesēah þǣr hire cildfestre, þe wæs nū mid sumum fǣrcumenum ādle; and þā genēalǣhte hēo hīre tō, and bæd hīe recan þæs gelimpes. Þā cwæþ Ligoridis, “Mīne lēofe dohtor, gehīer þū nū mīn word, and weorðīe þū þē on þīn heorte. Hwæt gelīefst þū sīe þīn fæder and mōdor? And hwæt sīe þīn ēðel?” Þā andswyrde hēo, “Tharsus is mīn ēðel; mīn fæder is Strangulio, and mīn mōdor Dionisia.” Sēo fōstormōdor hēofde and cwæþ, “Mīne dohtor, gehīer þū mē; ic rece þē nū hwǣm þū āhst þīn gebyrde, swā þæt þū hæfst þē sumne rǣd tō þīnum tōweardan wege, þonne ic biþ of worulde gewiten. Apollonius is þīn fæder gehaten, and Arcestrate þīn mōdor, Arcestrates þæs cyninges dohtor. Hēo forþfērde sōna swā þū intō worulde cōm; and þā Apollonius, þe hīe mid cynelīcum rēafum gescrȳdde, wēorp þā ciste intō sǣ. And hē gesette twentig punda goldes neoðan hire hēafod; and swā hwā swā hit onfunde, hīe swā sceolde hire bebyrgednesse forgiefan. Þā þæt scip, þe scōc wiþ þǣm windum þe þīne cradol wǣron, þæt þe þīn unblīða fæder fērde on, æt nīehstan becōm þisre ceastre; and þǣr ūs gegrētton cumlīðe Strangulio and Dionisia, hwǣm þīn fæder ēac mē sealde. Hē þā swōr āþ þæt hē gā unscorenne and sīdfeaxne, oþþæt þū tō þīnre brȳdgifta dæge cymst. Nū ic þē rǣde, gif æfter mīnum forþfērung þīne frīend þē demm dōn woldon, þā hradīe þū sōna þǣm dōmsetle, and þǣr on þǣre strǣte finde þū þīn fæder onlīcnesse. Ætfylg þū hire tō, and ācȳþ þū þē dohtor his þe sēo onlīcnes ætīewþ. Þā ceasterwaru, þā þe gemunaþ þāra gōda his þe hē him forgēaf, þā wrecen þīn wōh.” Þā cwæþ Thasia, “Mīn lēofe fōstormōdor, þū tǣcst mē seldcūðu þing, þāra ǣr nū ic niste nā.” Æfter lȳt māran gesprǣce, þā forlēt Ligoridis þone gāst. And Tharsia warode hire bebyrgednesse, and wēop hēo hīe ān gēara. Þā hēo cōm eft hire lāre; and hire gewuna wæs þæt hēo etan nolde oþþæt hēo gecōm þǣre gemynde þe wæs tō hire cildfestre weorþlicnesse gefremmed. Hēo bær mid hire wīnes flascan, and þā þǣr ābād and sægde þā naman hire lēofra gegnornodra ieldrena. Þā hēo þus wunode, þā fērde Dionisia and hire dohtor Philothemia on þǣm strǣte; and mid þȳ þe þā ceasterwaru gesāwon Thasian tō hire wīsan, þā cwæþ hīe, “Blīðe sīe se fæder þǣre fægere Thasian! Ac swā tō hire gefēran, sēo is earglic and scamung.” Þā gehīerde sēo mōder þæt hīe hire dohtor hyspdon and se ūtacunda wæs gehered, and hwæt bewende þanon on ierlicre wōdnesse! Þā ābēag hēo sundor mid hire selfum tō sprecenne, and murcode hēo and cwæþ, “Fēowertīne gēara hæfþ se fæder hise dohtor forlǣten; ne gesende hē nā gewritu, and sōþlīce nū hē sīe of worulde gewiten. Sēo fōstormōdor is ēac forþfēred, and nū nis nān þæt mæg mē oþsacan. Ic ācwelle hīe, and frætwīe mīn āgenan dohtor mid hire golde and gimmum.” Þā hēo þis geondþōhte, þā oncōm hire gerēfa, se wæs Theophilus gehaten; and ācīegde hine, and gehēt him micel mēde, forþǣm þe hēo wolde hine Thasian ācwellan. Þā Theophilus cwæþ, “Mīne hlǣfdige, hwæt hæfþ þæt mægden gedōn?” Þā answarode Dionisia, “Hēo hæfst gedōn þā wierrestan scylde; forþǣm ne sceoldest þū mē forsacan. Dō hwæt ic þē hāte; gif þū ne dō, þā wyrcest þū yfel on þē selfum.” Þā Theophilus cwæþ, “Rec þū mē hlǣfdige, hū sīe hit gedōn?” Þā answyrde Dionisia and cwæþ, “Þus is hire gewuna, þæt ne eteþ þā þā hēo of lāre cymþ oþþæt hēo oncymþ hire cildfestre gemynde. Gearwa þē selfne mid seaxe, and þonne þū þǣr tō þǣre gemynde stōwe becume, þonne nim þū hīe be feaxe and hīe ofsticast, and þā mē cymst; ic wille þē þīn frēodōm forgiefan mid miclum mēde.” Þā onfēng se gerēfa þæt seax and ēode hē mid miclum sorge tō þǣre gemynde. Þā hē cwæþ, “Ēalā, sceal ic earnian frēodōm mid þisses unsceþþigan mægdenes līfe?” Hē þā becōm þā gemynde, þǣr þæt Thasia sōþlīce bēag æfter hire lāre, and on hire handa wæs þæs wīnes flasce. Mid þȳ þe se gerēfa onrǣsde þæt earme mægden, and þā nām hīe on feaxe and wēorp hīe tō eorðan. Ac ǣr þǣm þe hē āslōg, þā āclipode Thasia, “Ēalā Theophili! Hwæt māndǣd gedyde ic oþþe wiþ þē oþþe wiþ ōðerum, for þǣm þæt þū mē oþcwele?” Þā answarode hē and cwæþ, “Þū eart ealles unsceþþig, nymðe þæt þū āhst þē gold and cynelica geatwe þā þe þīn fæder þē gelēt.” Þā þæt wiþsacene stēopbearn cwæþ, “Mīn gōda mann, gif ic nā hyhte ne hæbbe, þā forgiefe mē biddan mīnum Scieppende ǣr þæt ic forþfēre.” Þā answyrde se gerēfa, “Dō swā, and God wāt þæt hit sīe on nīede þæt ic þē forslōge.” Nū þonne þæt mægden æt bede wæs, þonne onrǣsdon sǣmenn þā gemynde, and hīe þōhton oþberan hūðe; and þā hīe þæt geonge mægden niðergelægd gesāwon, and man būfan hire stōd hīe tō forslēanne, þā clipodon hīe, “Stille þū uncūða! Þæt is ūre hūþ, hwā nis nā þīn sige.” Mid þȳ þe Theophilus nū ful eges flēah hrædlīce of þǣre gemynde, and hine bedīglode be þǣm strande. Þā þā sǣmenn oþbǣron þæt mægden tō sǣ; and se gerēfa þā cōm ongēan hisre hlǣfdigan and reahte hire þǣre nēadhǣse gefyllednesse. Þā Theophilus cwæþ, “Hlǣfdige, ic þē rǣde, þæt þū þē nū gescrȳdest hēofungclāþ, and wille ic ēac dōn swā, and wēpest tēaras for hire dēaðe. Þus wē sceoldon beswican þā ceasterwaru, hwǣm wē ācȳðaþ þæt hēo wæs fram ādle oþboren.” Þā þā Strangulio gehīerde heora māndǣde, þā sōþlīce wæs his sār sōþfæst and stearc. Þā hē clipode, “Ic gescrȳde nū mē selfne on dēopum hēafe, forþǣm þe mē ēac sticīe þēos egesfule dǣd. Ēalā, hwæt mæg ic dōn? Hire fæder ālīesde ūre ceastre of wælhrēowestan dōme. Mid þǣm þe wē him gegēaf hē þā wæs forliden and wearþ wǣdla and þearfa. Giet wē āgiefaþ him yfel hisum gōde! Hē getǣhte ūs his dohtor, and grimm lēo hæfþ hīe geeten! Þū geblindoda wræcca þæt ic wǣre! Unsceþþig ic hēofe. Ic eom fram fūlum nǣdran foreāstreaht.” Þā āhōf his ēagan tō heofone and cwæþ, “Ēalā þū ārfæsta God, wite þū þæt mīna handa sindon clǣne þæs mægdenes blōde; gebidd þū hīe Dionisiade.” Þā hē bewende hisum wīfe mid heardum andwlitan and cwæþ, “Þū wīf, Godes fēond and manna scand, þū hæfst cyninges dohtor forspilded.” Þā Dionisia sette hire hīred tō hēofe, and mid gehīwodum mōde ātīewede sār and wēop bittre beforan þǣm ceasterwarum. Þā hēo cwæþ, “Lēofestan menn, ūre ēagena hyht, seō lēofe Thasia, is forþfērde of worulde. Nū ūre tēaras wǣtaþ þone marmastān þe wē tō hire gemynd onhōfon.” Þā sōna becōmon þā ceasterwaru þǣm stēde þǣron hire āres onlīcnes geseted wæs, on þancum for þǣm gōdum þe hire fæder þǣre ceastre geedstaðelode. Þā þā sǣmenn bǣron þæt mægden tō Machilentan, and þǣr hēo wæs gesetted tōmiddes ōðerum þēowum on þrȳpelūfe. Þā hire fulfremmednesse gehīerde Leno, se wæs sum fūl forligere, and þā gewilnode hīe bycgan. Ac ēac behēold hīe þǣre ceastre Ealdormann, Athanagoras hātte; and þā hē þone fægeran andwlitan and þā ārlican wīsan gesēah, þā āgielde tīen punda goldes. Þā Leno cwæþ, “Ic selle twentig.” And Athanagoras andwyrde, “And ic þrītig.” Þā Leno cwæþ, “Fēowertig.” And Athanagoras andswarode and cwæþ, “Fīftig." Ongēan Leno cwæþ, “Hundeahtatig.” And Athanagoras cwæþ, andwyrende, “Hundnigontig.” Tō þǣm ende cwæþ Leno, “Ic selle hundtīentig punda goldes gearwe; gif heora gehwilc āgielde þȳ mā, ic þā selle tīen punda goldes bufan.” Þā þōhte hine Athanagoras, “For hwȳ flīte ic furþor wiþ Lenonem? Ic mæg bycgan twelf þēowa for þǣm cēape þe hē hire fordǣlþ. Āge hē hīe, and þā ætrihtost oncume ic hisum hūse and biddan hire lufe.” Mid þȳ þe Leno gelǣdde hīe tō scandhūse, and on þæs ānum būre wæs sum godgield mid gimmum gefāg. Þā hēt hīe dēofolgield dōn, ac þæt mægden cwæþ, “Mīna hlāford, ne mæg ic onhnīgan nān swilcum þinge.” Þā bewende Leno hire mid ierlicum andwlitan and cwæþ, “Nāst þū nā þæt þū tō Lenonis þæs hnēawes hūse gecōme?” Þā hēo wēorp hīe tō his fēt and clipode, “Lēof, ne dō mē unweorþscipe; ne bēo þū sceþþig swilcre micelre firene!” Þā Leno cwæþ, “Ne wāst þū þæt wiþ Lenonem ne magon nā beodu nā tēaras þē dugan?” Þā hēt þāra þēowa ealdormann, and bæd hē hine Thasia gescrȳdan on þǣm micellicostum rēafum, and ācȳðan ymbe þǣre ceastre þǣre unweorþscipe dōm. Hwæt se ealdorman dyde swā swā hē gehatten wæs; and on þǣm þriddan dæge becōmon fela ceasterwaru, and ǣr þǣm cōm Leno mid glīwe. Ac ǣr þǣm þe heora ealle gecōmon, þā gecōm Athanagoras mid hēafodgewǣde gescrȳded; and Thasia gesēah him forhte, and sōna wēorp hīe tō his fōtum. Þā hēo cwæþ, “Gemiltsa mē mīna hlāford; gemiltsa mē, for heofones lufe. Be þǣm heofonan ic hālsīe þē mē of unāre nerīe. Gehīer þū gōda hlāford mīn spell, and þonne þū hwanon ic gesprang wite, þonne dō weorþscipe on mīn æðelborenesse, and weardast þū mē unsceþþige.” Mid þȳ þe hēo reahte him eall þā gelimp hire līfes; and æfter þǣm wæs Athanagoras geondmenged and gehrowen, and cwæþ, “Ēalā þū gedrēfede mægþ! And ic ēac hæbbe mē dohtor, hwǣm þe wyrd on ilcan wege weorðan mæge. On þīnum gelimpum ic mæg hīe oncnāwan. Ic ānn þē nū twentig punda goldes; þā sīe þȳ mā þonne þīn fūle āgend biddeþ fram þē. Rec þū þīn spell þǣm ōðerum, and þæt þīne frēodōm ongā.” Þā wæs Thasia full þanca tō his mildum wīse, ac bæd hēo hine þæt hire spell hē nolde recan tō nān. Þā hē cwæþ, “Ne rece ic hit tō nāne būtan mīn āgenan dohtor, forþǣm þe hit hæbbe hire mīcel gōd.” Þus cweðende, þā gefēollon of him fēawe tēaras tō hire sārlicum gelimpum. Þā þā hē ēode ūt þā gemette him þǣr sum frēond, þe hine grētte and ascode tō þæs mægdenes wīsan. Þā se ealdorman cwæþ, “Nis nān þȳ selra, ac hēo is þearle on sōrgum.” Hwæt oncōm se cniht, and hēo beclȳsde þā duru, swā swā hēo ǣr dyde. Þā hē cwæþ, “Hū micel gegēaf þē se ealdorman?” And þæt mægden andwyrde, “Fēowertig punda goldes.” Þā se cniht cwæþ, “Nim þū nū þā þās full hund punda goldes.” Thasia sōþlīce onfēng þā þā gife, ac hēo fēoll tō his fōtum and reahte him hire gelimp. Se mann, se wæs Aporiatus gehatten, þā answarode, “Ārīs þē þū hlǣfdige; wē bēoþ menn, ūre ealle sceal wyrde cunnan.” Hē þā ūt ēode, and gēsēah þǣr Athanagoras tō hliehhenne, and him tō cwæþ, “Þū gōda mann, hæfst þū nān ōðerne his tēara sellan būtan mē?” Þā hīe bewendon heora spræce, forþǣm þe hīe dreodon þæt þā word þā wīsan ingefeallan sceoldon, and ābidon þǣr for þāra ōðera cyme. Þā becōmon fela, ac hīe ealle gegēafon gold and cieredon mid tēarum. Mid þȳ þe Thasia onfēng þone dǣl þe Leno fram hire bebæd for hire unweorþscipe, and þā hēo gegēaf þone him. Þā cwæþ se unmann, “Warnīe þū þē þæt þū bringe mē goldes gehwilc þe hīe þē forgiefaþ.” Ac þǣm ōðerum dæge niste his ierre nā gemǣru, þā þā hē ongēat hēo hire weorþscipe gīet generede; and sōna hēt þone wīfes ealdorman fulfyllan þone þwēorscipe. Þā hire hē becōm, þā flēowon þearle þæs mægdenes tēaras, and gefēoll hēo tō his fōtum and cwæþ, “Gemiltse mē lēof, mīn gelimp gefremaþ þāra ōðera earmunge, and hwæt ne wiþsæcst þū āna mīn bed. Ic eom cyninges dohtor; ne besmīt þū mē.” Þā andwyrde hē, “Leno biþ feohgīfre mann; nāt ic hwæt ic mæg dōn.” Þā hēo cwæþ, “Gōda hlāford, ic eom wel geleornod on frēo lāre and cune wel þæt glīwcræft; forþǣm gif þū tō þǣm strǣte mē gelǣde, þā hīerst þū mīn lārcræft. Ācȳð þǣm ceasterwarum, and þā ic wille him ful scādan eall þe hīe mē biddan; ne mē twēonaþ þæt ne sceolde ongān nā gield genōg.” Þā cwæþ se mann, “Wel, ic wille dōn swā swā þū mē woldest.” Mid þȳ þe hē ācȳðde þæt gebann, and þā becōmon þā ceasterwaru þǣm strǣte; and hīe ealle þōhton hire sprǣc and wlite swīðe weorþ. Swā hwilc swā rædels hīe geāscodon, þonne sēo andswarode wel; and mid þǣm þe onēode micel gold fram þǣm frymdigum ceasterwarum. Þā ēac behēold hīe Athanagoras mid miclum ymbhȳdignesse; sōþlīce hē weardode hīe efen swā fela hē for his āgenan cilde dyde. Hē fæstode hīe tō þæs ealdormannes gīemene, and forþǣm þe hē wolde weardian hire weorþscipe, þā sealde hē him weorþlica gifa. Uton cierran nū tō Apollonīe. Æfter fēowertīne gēara bēcom hē þā ongēan Strangulionis and Dionisiades healle on Tharsum ceastre. Hwæt þā Strangulio hine gesēah þā ēode hē on gedrēfedum mōde, and cwæþ hē his wīfe tō, “Þū yfele wīf, hwæt dēst þū nū? Þū sægdest þæt se forlidenan Apollonius wæs gewiten; gesēo þū nū, hē cymþ tō biddenne hisre dohtor. Hwæt answariaþ wē?” Þā andwyrde hēo, “Þū dysiga, uton cierran ūre hēofe and iernan tēaras. Þā hē gelīefe his cild fram ādle forþfērde.” Mid þǣm þe Apollonius oncōm, and þā gesēah hīe on hēofungclāðum gescrȳdede and cwæþ, “Wēpaþ gē tō mīn hāmcyme? Mē þyncþ þā tēaras sindon mīne, nā ēowere.” Þā cwæþ þæt yfel wīf, “Ēalā, wolde ic tō heofone þæt ōðer, and nā ic nā mīn gemæccan, hæfde reccan þē hwæt ic nū sceal: fǣringa forþfērde þīn dohtor.” Þā Apollonius cwacode geond his leomu eallan, and stōd hē stīðe swā hē onlīcnes wǣre, and cwæþ hē hire tō, “Þū wīf, gif mīn dohtor sīe swā þū ācȳðde, hæfþ hire gold and rēafas ēac forþfēred?” Þā answarode Dionisia, “Heora gehwilc bēgen sīen sōþlīce āspendede; ac mid þǣm þe ne ieldst þū sōþfæstnesse tō ūre wordum, þā willaþ wē reccan witnesse on ūrum dǣle. Forþǣm þe hīe sindon gemyndige þīn rūmheortnesse, þā ārǣrdon ūp þā ceasterwaru gemynde āres tō hire, þā þe þū mīd þīn āgenum ēagum sēon mægst.” Þā þās word gesægd wǣron, þā cwæþ Apollonius his þēowum mennum tō, “Gāþ gē tō þǣm scipe; ic gā nū tō mīn ungesǣligan dohtre gebyrgene.” And ēode hē þǣre gemynde tō and þǣron rǣdde þā word, swā swā ic ǣr gesægde; and hwæt clipode hē on sāres wōdnesse, swilce hē his āgenan ēagan cursode, and cwæþ, “Gē gesihtes lāðe fruman, nillaþ gē nā wēpan tō mīn gerārodan cildes gemynd?” Mid þǣm swilcum wordum geēode hē sōna tō his scipum, and hēt his þēowum mennum hine intō sǣ weorpan; forþǣm þe sēo woruld and hire dǣla ealle gewearþ him unlēofe. Hīe fōron þā tō Tyran, and hwīle blēowon þā wind gespēdelīce; ac sōna wǣron þā āwended, and hīe wandrodon swīðe of þǣm rihtryne. Mid Godes gōdum wyrde hīe becōmon þā þǣm Machilenan porte, þǣr þe his dohtor gīet ābād. Se stēorra clipode hlūde and his gefēran samod þā þā hīe cōmon tō lande, and Apollonius hēt biddan for hwǣm intingan clipodon hīe. And se stēorra answarode, “Mīna hlāford, þā Machilenan ceasterwaru gebrēmaþ nū gebyrddæg.” Apollonius þā murcode and cwæþ, “Eall mæg healdan heora gebyrddagas būtan mē. Ac hit geneah þæt ic earmlic eom; ic gielde mīn þēowum mennum tīen punda goldes, and lǣte hīe brūcan þæt symbel; and swā hwā swā wolde oþþe ācȳðan mīnne naman oþþe gehīersumian on mīn gehīernesse, þā hāte his leomu tōbrecan.” Se gerēfa onfeng þā gold, and mid þǣm þe bōhte ēstas and cōm eft þǣm scipe tō. Mid þȳ þe þā flotan gebrēmdon þæt symbel; and forþǣm þe Apollonio bēam wæs weorðra þonne þā ōðeras, þā wæs þæt symbel þǣr dēorwyrþlīcra gebrēmed. Þā gelamp hit þæt Athangoras, þe wilnode þā fægeran Thasian, þā nū ēode be strande and becōm hē þǣm cyninges scipe. Þā cwæþ hē his gefērum tō, “Mīna frīend, mē līcaþ þæt scip.” Þā þæs scipes menn gehīerdon hine heora bord herian, þā inlaðodon hīe hine āstīgan. Þā sōþlīce ēode hē, and mid weorþscipe gelegde tīen punda goldes on þǣm bēode and cwæþ, “Ne laðodon gē mē for nāhte.” And him dydon hīe micle þancas; þā āscode hē þæs scipes hlāfordes, and hīe sægdon him þæt heora cyning wæs on miclum gedrēfednesse, and him dēaþ þearle gelīcode; and sægdon ēac þæt hē hæfþ gē wīf gē dohtor forlǣten on fremdum þēode. Þā cwæþ Athanagoras Ardalīe tō, se wæs Apollonio þēowa menna ān, “Ic sealde þē tū punda goldes, gif þū gā and him cwiðst þisre ceastre ealdormann wolde mid him sittan.” Þā andwyrde Ardalius, “Ne hǣlen tū punda goldes mīn bebrocenan leomu. Ic bidde þē þū ōðer sendan; forþǣm þe hē dēmde þus tō wreccenne on þǣm þe him becume.” Þā cwæþ se ealdorman, “Hē gefremede þās lage for þē ac nā for mē, mē þyncþ; nū āstīge ic mē selfne; saga mē hisne naman.” Hīe him sægdon, “Apollonius hātte.” Þā cwæþ hē him selfum, “Lā Apollonius! Se þe Thasia hire fæder hāteþ.” Sōna becōm hē Apollonīe, and behēold hine forlorodne and īdelne, unscorenne and sīdfeaxne. Þā se ealdormann spræc on dēopre stefne, and cwæþ, “Bēo þū gesund Apolloni!” Þā bewende Apollonius and ierrlicum andwlitan gesēah forþǣm þe him þūhte þæt wæs his āgnena menna ān; ac sōna swā hē þone weorðan and wlitan mann gesēah, þā stōd hē. Þā cwæþ se ealdormann, “Ānrǣdlīce þū eart gewundrod æt mīn cyme. Hwæt ic eom Athanagoras gehatten, þisre ceastre ealdormann. Þonne ic þīn flotan on ancre rīdan gesēah, þonne mē līciaþ hīe wel; and tōmiddes him mē līcaþ mǣst þis scip, þe is wel gefremmed; and mid þǣm þe ic þā word gesægde, þā þā sǣmenn mē bæd āstīgan; ic āscode þæs hlāfordes, and hīe andwyrdon hē wǣre mid sāre begroren. Forþǣm ic eom gecōm hider þæt ic þē āfrēfrian mæge, and āhebban þē ǣnne mā intō blisse lēoht. Ic bidde Gode þæt hit swā sīe.” Þā Apollonius āhōf hine his hēafod and cwæþ, “Swā hwā swā þū sīe, gā nū on friðe; ic eom unweorþ tō cumenne þǣm symble, and ne mē līcaþ tō līfe.” Þā hē gē gewundrod gē geornful tō þæs ungesǣligan cyninges frōfre wæs, þā edcōm Athanagoras tō þǣm cēolðele and hēt sendan Lenoni tō, þæt Thasia cuman sceolde, forþǣm þe him þōhte hire drēamcræft and lār þǣm cyninge gōd dōn meahte. Mid þǣm þe hēo cōm, and onfēng bebode fram þǣm ealdormenn. Þā cwæþ hē, “Gif þū þæs cyninges gedrēfednesse miltsian sceolde, þā forgiefe ic þē þrītig punda goldes, and þæs gewihtes ilcan on seolfre; þȳ mā ic gelīese þē þrītig daga of Leonis mihte.” Þā þæt mægden gegearwode hīe sōþlīce for þǣm gesettedan þinge. Hwæt becōm hēo þǣm sārlicum menn and on mildum stefne cwæþ, “Heofon healde and blissīe þē!” Þā sang hēo mid hearpan swēge on līðum and wynsumum sange, tō þǣm þe Apollonius wæs gewundrod. Hire sang reahte him þā gelamp þe hire gecōmon, and þā wurdon þus, þæt hēo gefēoll on mǣnra handum, þe hire weorþscipe sellan woldon; ac hēo oferēode unsceþþige and ungewemmede ealla þā earfoþnessa. Þus wæs hire sang: Āre mē gīet hæbbe, þēah hōran mānfula ic weorþscipe þurhgā; þornas rōsan þus sēo blēd gebeorge. Þā þe mē bǣron of āwurpon þæt ecg, ordbanan, morþ under gemynde. Mægen ic nerīe þonne nīetenlic Leno mec niðertorfaþ. Mōdsār gīet bīdaþ, biter on ferhðe, tēaras feallaþ. Nis nā on foldan wīdan sēlra tō bearne þonne gebyrda witan, mōdor and fæder; mē mann behealde sǣda āncyn æðelhīwna. Ic mē geliefe gīet on lēofan dæge, wlanc and wynsum willan Godes wyrcan mæge. Gewera þīn tēaras, gemearca mōdceare, þēah murnunga hieldaþ; onhāwa tō heofonan, āhebban þōhtas būfan eorðan under wolcnum; ielda bearnum hālig Scieppend ā healdan wolde; Meotod lǣttan ne mæg menna tēaras, þegna āre, on olle feallan. Mid þǣm þe hēo hire sang fulfillede, þā bewende Apollonius his ēagan þǣm mægdene and dēope onsāc. Þā cwæþ hē, “Wrecca þe ic eom, hū lang sceal ic mīn earforðnessa þolian? Ac ic dō þē þanc æt þīnum sange; and gif eft tō mīn ǣrran weorþmynte ic becume, þā healde mē þīn gemynd. Þū mægden sægst þæt þū fram æðelborennesse cymþ; hwæt sind þīne gebyrda? Ac bēo þū gefēred: ic forgiefe þē hund punda goldes; nim þā, and ne ācȳþ mē nā mā. Ic hæbbe mē nū nīwe earfoðnessa.” Þā þæt mægden onfēng his gold, and wolde of þǣm scipe gefēran, ac Athanagoras þā hīe stilede, and cwæþ, “Hwider gǣst'u? Þū næfst nā gōd swā gīet gedōn; hæfþ þīn heorte swilce unmiltsunge þæt þū mægst forlǣtan mann hine selfne unwyrcan and nā ne winþ ongēan þǣm?” Þā andswyrde hēo, “Ic gedyde eall þæt ic meahte; hē forgēaf mē hund punda goldes and wolde mē gefēran.” Þā Athanagoras cwæþ, “Ic wille forgiefan þē tū hund punda goldes gif þū þæt gold him ācierre and sægst, mīna hlāford, ic sēce þīne fæstnunge, nealles þīnes goldes.” Þā Thasia dyde swā, and genēalǣhte þǣm cyninge and cwæþ, “Gif þū cyning wolde wunian on þīssum gedrēfedan wīsan þe þē gelīcode, lǣte mē wiþ þē race sellan. Ic nū rece þē rædels; gif þū þone riht ārǣddan mæge, þā gefēre ic; gif þone þū riht ārǣddan ne mæge, ic wille ācierran þē þīn gife and āfaran.” Þā Apollonius cwæþ, “Āge þū þē þā gold þe ic þē forgēaf; ne oþsace ic þīnne willan. Swā þēah mīn yfel nā hǣle ne lǣtaþ, gīet wolde ic þē gehīeran. Saga þū þīnne rædels, and of mē āfērst.” Þā cwæþ þæt mægden, “Gehīer þū þone rædels: Est domus in terris, que nobis clausa resultat; ipsa domus resonat, tacitus sed non sonat hospes, ambo cum currunt, hospes simul et domus una.” Þæt is on Englisc, ‘Hūs is on eorðan, þæt ūs beclȳsed is; þæt hlēoðraþ, ac nā ne hlyneþ se cuma; and gē hūs gē cuma samod forþgāþ.’ “Nū gif þū cyning sīe, swā þū gecȳðde, þā sīe þū wīsra þonne mē. Smēa þū þone rædels.” Þā Apollonius cwæþ, “Mid þȳ þe þū wite þæt ic nā lēogere ne sīe, þā wille rǣdan þone rædels. Þæt hūs þe hlēoðraþ and hlyneþ, is se wǣg; se dumb cuma is fisc, þe gǣþ samod mid his hūse.” Þā eft cwæþ hēo, “Gehīer þū þone ōderne rædels: Longa feror velox formose filia silve, innumera pariter comitum stipante caterva, curro vias multas, vestigia nulla relinquo.” Þæt is on Englisc, ‘Hræde birþ mē feorr holtes hēah dohtor, þe fela gefēran hīelt. Ic fare manega wegas and ne lǣte nā lāstas.’ Þā Apollonius cwæþ, “Þonne ic geandwyrde þīn rædelsas, þonne ætīewe þē micel þæt þe þū ne wāst. Giet ic wundrīe æt þīn cēnan snotornesse, þe sīe on mægdene geongum swā þū eart. Þæt trēow þe gefēran hīelt, and fela wegas ferþ and nā lāstas ne lǣtþ, is scip.” Þā cwæþ þæt mægden, “Gehīer þū nū þone þridda rædels: Per rotas et edes innoxius ille pertransit, est calor in medio magnus, quem nemo removit; Non est nuda domus, nudus sed convenit hospes; Si luctum poneres, innocens intrares in ignes.” Þæt is on Englisc, ‘Se unsceþþig oferfērþ hwēol and bold; onmiddan is hāt þe nān ādrǣfeþ. Þæt hūs nis nā nacod, ac þǣm nacodan cuman is gedafen. Gif hē sār ālǣtan wolde, se sceal becuman intō fȳr.’ Þā andswyrde Apollonius and cwæþ, “Ic oncume bæþ, on þǣm þe fȳr upspringþ mid þǣm hwyrfedum bordum. Þǣm nacodan cuman dēah þæt gehrēfede hūs; and se sceal swǣtan, se þe biþ nacod on þisre stōwe.” Þā þā hēo þās þing and ōðer gesægde, þā wēorp þæt mægden hīe ætforan Apollonīe, and nām his handa and hine clipede. Þā cwæþ hēo, “Gehīer þū þīnes biddendes stefn; gelōca tō þisses mægdenes gebēde. Yfel biþ hit on micelra snotornessa mennum, þæt hīe hīe selfe forbrecen. Gif þū þīn forlǣtene wīf hēofīe, þā āgiefe eft Godes milts þē hīe; gif þū þīn cild murne, þā unne Dryhten ōðer. Þū sceoldest libban and blissian.” Mid þǣm þe wæs Apollonius gebealg tō þæs mægdenes stræcnesse, and ārǣs hē hine, and āscēaf hīe mid his fēt. And þā hēo gefēoll and slāt hire cēacan, of þǣre micel blōd flēow. Hwæt sprungon tēaras of hire ēagum, and ācol tō þǣm wunde þe hēo onēode, þā clipode hēo, “Þū ēca Meotod þāra heofena! Beheald þū mīne earfoðnessa. Gecenned tōmiddes ȳðum and hrēohnessum, þā forþfērde mīn mōdor swā swā hēo mē līfe forgēafe. Hēo þā wæs gelægd on ciste mid twentigum punda goldes, and swā forsacen reste efne gīet on gebyrgenesse, þā wæs hēo on sǣ geworpen. Ac mē ungesǣlige sealde mīn gefylled fæder Stranguilionem and Dionisiaden tō, mid þǣm gearwum þe æðelborenesse gedēfe wǣron. Þā hīe sealde mē tō dēaðe; ac þā ic Gōd bebæd, þā onrǣsdon sume sǣmenn, and se manslaga flēah. Ic wæs þā hider gebrōht; and on rihtum tīde geedstaðelīe God mē tō mīn fæder Apollonīe.” Hēr endode hire sprǣc; and mid þǣm þe se murnenda cyning sōþlīce cūðe wel hire gebyrd, and on hlūdum stefne clipode, “Miltsa God! þū þe ofersīehst heofonan and eorðan, þū þe ætīewst þæt þe dīeglod biþ, gebletsod sīe þīn hālga nama!” Þus cweðende, þā gefēoll hē intō his dohtor earmas. Þā hneslīce hē clypede hīe, and wēop hlūde on blisse. Þā cwæþ hē, “Mīn betste and ǣnlice cild, healf mīn āgenan sāwle! Ne sceal ic forþfēran æt þīn forlǣtennesse. Ic gefand þē, and wille libban.” On hebbendran stefne hē cwæþ, “Iernaþ hider mīna þēowa menn, mīna frīend! Ēower eall, mīn earfoðnes is on ende. Ic gefand þæt þe ic forlēt; mīn cild, mīn ǣnlice dohtor!” Þa hīerdon þā þēowa menn his blissig word and oncōmon, and ēac cōm Athanagoras se ealdorman. And hīe onfand þone gesǣligne cyning wēpan on his dohtor hneccan. Þā cwæþ hē, “Sēo, sēo! Þēos is hēo þe ic gehēofed. Healf mīne sāwle! forþǣm nū ic libbe.” Mid þǣm þe hīe ealle wēopon samod mid heora hlāfordes gesǣlðe. Þā nū ongierede Apollonius hine of his hēofungclāðe, and gescrydde hine on cynelicum rēafum. Þā his gefēran cwǣdon, “Mīna hlāford, hū micel hæfþ þīn dohtor þīne onlīcnesse! Gif nā ōðer tācn ne wǣre, þā wolde sēo tācnian hire gebyrde.” Þæt āmyrgede mægden þā gēat hire edcumenan fæder mid cossum. Þā cwæþ hēo, “Gebletsod bēo God, hwā mē gehæfde swilce ēaþmōdnesse, and hwā forgēaf mē mid þē tō sēonne, and tō libbenne, and tō forþfērenne samod.” Þā hēo reahte him eallu þā gelimp, and sægde þæs þe hēo geþolode mid þǣm ungesǣligum Lenonem, and hū Dryhten Ælmihtig hīe bewerode. Þā Athanagoras ondrēd þæt ōðer meahte biddan hīe tō gemæccan, and þus wēorp hē hine tō þæs cyninges fōtum, and gemetfæstlīce ācȳðde hū mid him heora gesǣlig edryne gelamp, and gebæd hine him forgiefan his cild. Þā Apollonius andswarode, “Ne mæg ic þæs oþsacan, forþǣm þe þū ālīhtde hire sār, and geedstaðelode nū and sīþ mīne blisse.” Sōna Athanagoras gecierde þǣre ceastre, and ābēonn ūt þā ceasterwaru, þus cweðende, “Ne lǣte ūre ceastre forfeallan for þæs suman fracoðan scandes scyldum. Ic wāt þæt Apollonius se cyning gecōm, þǣre fægeran Thasian fæder. Hwæt behealdaþ gē þǣr þǣr his flotan on ancre rīdaþ. Hē behǣteþ ūs mid fǣrcumenum hryre, nymðe Leno, se þe his dohtor weorþscipe sellan wolde, him tō gē sellen.” Sōna swā hē gespræc, þā sēo fulle ceasterwaru, gē wer gē wīf, āurnon þæs cyninges getemprunge tō biddenne. Þā nāmon hīe þone andsǣtan Leno, and setton hine on gebindum, and onfēngon and bǣron hine tō þǣre strǣte, þǣr þǣr se geǣswīcoda cyning nū wæs. Þā Apollonius, þe on cynelicum rēafum gescrȳded wæs, se wæs bescoren and gecynehelmod, þā āstāg þone dōmsetl and his dohtor. Þǣr sēo ceasterwaru ymbstōd, tō his gespræces hyhte. Þā cwæþ hē, “Gehieraþ gē Machilenan Menn, on þissum dæge hæbbe ic mīn dohtor gefunden, hwǣm se yfel Leno wolde ārlēas gefremman. Ne meahte nā earmung nā gebed nā gold hine oflinnan his wælhrēownesse. Forþǣm āwreccaþ gē mīn dohtor.” Sēo ceasterwaru andwyrde ānre stefne, “Sīe Leno forburnen, and his feoh þǣre hlǣfdige forgiefen.” Hwæt sōna wæs se scand gebrōht and forburnen! Þā Thasia cwæþ þǣm wīfa ealdormenn tō, “Þē ic āhredde nū, forþǣm þe ic eom gīet unbesmiten fram þīnum miltse and þǣre ceasterware miltse. Ēac ic forgiefe þē tū hund punda goldes.” Þā bewand hēo þā ōðeran wīf, þā þe Leno him gehæfde, and cwæþ hēo him tō, “Bēoþ gē frēo, and forgietaþ gē þīn gēogebǣru.” Þā Apollonius ācȳðde ongēan þā ceasterwaru and dyde him þanc forþǣm þe hīe his willan fullēodon, and forgēaf him mēde fīf hund punda goldes. Mid þǣm þe sēo ceasterwaru clipode and geblissode; and sōna ongunnon hīe gefremman onlīcnesse tō heorum āriende onmiddan þǣre ceastre. Þǣr wæs on hire gewritten þus: ‘Þās gifu sealde sēo ceasterwaru on Machilenan, Apollonio þǣm Tyriscan, and þǣre hāligostan Thasian his mǣdenlicre dohtor, forþǣm þe hīe ūre ceastre generedon.’ Binnan fēawum dagum onfēng Athanagoras þā hlǣfdige his tō gemæccan, onmiddan þǣre ceastre hēahum blisse. Mid þȳ þe þās þing gedōn wǣron, þā wolde Apollonius seglan his þēode tō, mid his dohtor and mid his āðume and mid his gefēran samod be Tharsan wege; ac þonne him gemētte engel on swefne, and hē betǣhte him þæt hē fare tō Efesum, and þǣron becymþ þǣre Dianan healle and recþ on hlūdum stefne eall þā gehwierfedu gelimp tō þǣm þe hē fram ǣrestan geoguðe þolode. Þus sōþlīce fōr Apollonius Efesum tō; and þā þā hē þǣre ceastre becōm, þā ofstāg hē his scipe and sōhte þā healle þǣr þe his lang forlǣten wīf gebūde; and þā on miclum cynelicum rēafum and golde gescrȳdded þā onēode hē and his ārlicum gefērum.2 Þā wæs hire gecȳðed, þe þǣr ealdor wæs, þæt þǣr wǣre cumen sum cyning mid his āðume and mid his dohtor mid miclum gifum. Mid þǣm þe hēo þæt gehīerde, heo hīe selfe mid cynelicum rēafe gefrætwode, and mid purpran gescrȳdde, and hire hēafod mid golde and mid gimmum geglengde, and mid miclum fǣmnena hēape ymbtrymed, cōm tōgēanes þǣm cyninge. Hēo wæs sōþlīce þearle wlitig; and for þǣre miclan lufe þǣre clǣnnesse, hīe sægdon ealle þæt þǣr nǣre nān Dianan swā gecwēme swā hēo. Mid þǣm þe Apollonius þæt gesēah, hē mid his āðume and mid his dohtor tō hire urnon and fēollon ealle tō hire fōtum, and wēnde þæt hēo Diana wǣre sēo gyden for hire miclan beorhtnesse and wlite. Þæt hāligern wearþ þā geopenod, and þā lāc wǣron ingebrōhte, and Apollonius ongann þā sprecan and cweðan, “Ic fram cildhāde wæs Apollonius genēmnod, on Tyrum geboren. Mid þǣm þe ic becōm tō fullum andgiete, þā næs nān cræft þe wǣre fram cyningum begān oþþe fram æðelum mannum þæt ic ne cūðe. Ic ārǣdde Antiochus rædels þæs cyninges, tō þǣm þæt ic his dohtor underfēnge mē tō gemæccan; ac hē selfa wæs mid þǣm fūlestan horwe þǣr tō geþēod, and mē þā sierede tō ofslēanne. Mid þǣm þe ic þæt forflēah, þā wearþ ic on sǣ forliden, and cōm tō Cyrenense. Þā underfēng mē Arcestrates se cyning mid swā micelre lufe, þæt ic æt nīehstan geearnode þæt hē gēaf mē his ācennedan dohtor tō gemæccan. Sēo fōr þā mid mē tō onfōnne mīnum cynerīce, and þās mīne dohtor, þe ic beforan þē Diana geandweard hæbbe, ācende on sǣ and hire gāst ālēt. Ic þā hīe mid cynelicum rēafe gescrȳdde, and mid golde and gewrite on ciste ālegde, þæt se þe hīe funde hīe weorþlīce bebyrgde, and þās mīne dohtor befæste þǣm mānfullestan menn tō fēdenne. Fōr mē þā tō Egypte lande fēowertīene gēar on hēofe; þā ic ongēan cōm, þā sægdon hīe mē þæt mīn dohtor wǣre forþfaren, and mē wæs mīn sār eall geednīwod.” Mid þǣm þe hē þās þing eall āreaht hæfde, Arcestrate sōþlīce his wīf ūp ārās and hine ymbclypte. Þā niste nā Apollonius ne ne gelīefde þæt hēo his gemæcca wǣre ac scēaf hīe fram him. Hēo þā micelre stefne clipode and cwæþ mid wōpe, “Ic eom Arcestrate þīn gemæcca, Arcestrates dohtor þæs cyninges; and þū eart Apollonius mīn lārēow þe mē lǣrdest, þū eart se forlidena mann þe ic lufode, nā for gālnesse ac for wīsdōme. Hwǣr is mīn dohtor?” Hē bewende hine þā tō Thasian and cwæþ, “Þis hēo is.” And hīe wēopon þā ealle and ēac blissodon. And þæt word sprang geond eall þæt land þæt Apollonius se mǣra cyning hæfde funden his wīf; and þǣr wearþ ormǣte bliss, and þā organa wǣron getogene, and þā bīeman geblawene; and þǣr wearþ blīðe gebēorscipe gegearwod betwux þǣm cyninge and þǣm folce; and hēo gesette hire gingran þe hire folgode tō sācerde; and mid blisse and hēofe ealre þǣre mægðe on Efesum, hēo fōr mid hire were and mid hire āðume and mid hire dohtor tō Antiochian, þǣr Apollonio wæs þæt cynerīce gehealden. Fōr þā siþþan tō Tyrum and gesette þǣr Athenagoras his āðum tō cyninge; fōr þā sōþlīce þanon tō Tharsum mid his wīfe and mid his dohtor and mid cynelicre fierde, and hēt sōna gelæccan Stranguilionem and Dionisiaden, and lǣdan beforan him þǣr hē sæt on his þrymsetle. Þā þā hīe gebrōhte wǣron, þā cwæþ hē beforan eallre þǣre gegaderunge, “Gē Tharsisce ceastergewaran, cweðen gē þæt ic Apollonius ēow dyde æfre ǣnigne unþanc?” Hīe þā ealle ānre stefne cwǣdon, “Wē sægdon æfre þæt þū ūre cyning and fæder wǣre and for þē wē woldon lustlīce sweltan, forþǣm þe þū ūs ālīesdest of hungre.” Apollonius þā cwæþ, “Ic befæste mīne dohtor Stranguilionem and Dionisiade and hīe noldon mē þā āgiefan.” Þæt yfele wīf cwæþ, “Næs þæt wel, hlāford, þæt þū self ārǣddest þā stafas ofer hire byrgene?” Þa clipode Apollonius swīðe hlūde and cwæþ, “Lēofe dohtor Thasia, gif ǣnig andgiet sīe on helle, lǣt þū þæt cwicsūslena hūs, and gehīer þū þīnes fæder stefne.” Þæt mægden þā forþēode mid cynelicum rēafe ymbscrȳd and unwrēah hire hēafod and cwæþ hlūde tō þǣm yfelan wīfe, “Dionisia hāl wes þū! Ic grēte þē nū of helle gecīeged.” Þæt forscyldigode wīf þā eallum leomum ābifode, þā þā hēo hire onlōcode, and ceastergewaru wundrode and blissode. Þā hēt Thasia beforan gelǣdan Theophilum Dionisiades gerēfan and him tō cwæþ, “Theophile, tō þǣm þæt þū þē gebeorge, sege hlūddre stefne, hwā þē hēte mē ofslēan.” Se gerēfa cwæþ¸ “Dionisia mīn hlǣfdige.” Hwæt sēo burgwaru þā gelæhton Stranguilionem and his wīf and lǣddon ūt on þā ceastre and ofstǣndon hīe tō dēaðe! And woldon ēac Theophilum ofslēan, ac Thasia him þingode and cwæþ, “Būtan þes mann mē þonne first forgēafe þæt ic mē tō Gode gebǣde, þonne ne becōme ic tō þissere āre.” Hēo reahte þā sōþlīce hire handa him tō and hēt hine gesund faran, and Philothemian þāre forscyldigodena dohtor Thasia nām tō hire. Apollonius þā sōþlīce forgēaf þǣm folce micele gifa tō blisse and heora weallas wurdon geedstaðelode. Hē wunode þā þǣr siex mōnðas and fōr siþþan on scipe tō Pentapolim þǣre Cyreniscan byrg and cōm tō Arcestrates þǣm cyninge. And se cyning blissode on his ielde þæt hē gesēah his nefan mid hire were. Hīe wunodon tōgædere ān gēar fullīce and se cyning siþþan Arcestrates fulfremedre ielde forþfērde betwux him eallum, and becwæþ healf his rīce Apollonio, healf his dohtor. Þissum eallum þus gedōnum, ēode Apollonius se mǣra cyning wiþ þā sǣ, þā gesēah hē þone ealdan fiscere þe hine ǣr nacodne underfēng. Þā hēt se cyning hine fǣrlīce gelæccan and tō þǣre cynelican healle gelǣdan. Þā þā se fiscere þæt gesēah þæt hine þā cempan woldon niman, þa wēnde hē ǣrest þæt hine mann sceolde ofslēan; ac mid þǣm þe hē cōm intō þæs cyninges healle, þā hēt se cyning hine lǣdan tōforan þǣre cwēne and þus cwæþ, “Ēalā þū ēadige cwēn! Þis is mīn tācnbora þe mē nacodne underfēng and mē getǣhte þæt ic tō þē becōm.” Þā besēah Apollonius se cyning tō þǣm fiscere and cwæþ, “Ēalā welwillenda ealda, ic eom Apollonius se Tyrisca þǣm þū sealdest healfne þīnne wǣfels.” Him gēaf þā se cyning twā hund gyldenra peningas and hæfde hine tō gefēran þā hwīle þe hē lifde. Hellanicus ēac þā tō him cōm se him ǣr cȳðde hwæt Antiochus cyning be him gedēmed hæfde; and hē cwæþ tō þǣm cyninge, “Hlāford Cyning, gemun Hellanicus þīnne þēow.” Þā genam hine Apollonius be þǣre handa and ārǣrde hine ūp and hine cysede and hine weligne gedyde and sette hine him tō gefēran. Æfter eallum þissum Apollonius se cyning sunu gestrīende be his gemæccan, þone hē sette tō cyninge on Arcestrates cynerīce his ealdefæder and hē selfa welwillendlīce lifde mid his gemæccan seofon and hundseofontig gēara and hēold þæt cynerīce on Antiochia and on Tyrum and on Cyrenense; and hē leofode on stilnesse and on blisse ealle þā tīd his līfes æfter his earfoþnesse; and twā bēc hē self gesette be his fare, and āne āsette on þǣm temple Diane, ōðre on biblioþecan. Hēr endaþ gē wēa gē wela Apollonius þæs Tyriscan. Rǣde se þe wille; and gif hīe hwā rǣde, ic bidde þæt hē þās āwendednesse ne tǣle, ac þæt hē hele swā hwæt swā þǣron sīe tō tǣle.