Believe me, Didymus's cause is just, precisely because this advocate so eagerly assails it.

I told you just now the matter under discussion.

Which of you who owns a garden can say in future, 'It is mine,' if, during the absence of the Queen, it is allowable to take it away to be used for any other purpose?
But this is what threatens Didymus.

If this is to be the custom here, let every one beware of sowing a radish or planting a bush or a tree, for should the wife of some great noble desire to dry her linen there, he may be deprived of it ere the former can ripen or the latter give shade." Loud applause followed this sentence, but Philostratus shouted in a voice that echoed far and wide: "Hear me, fellow-citizens; do not allow your selves to be deceived! No one is to be robbed here.

The project is to purchase, at a high price, the spot which the city needs for her adornment, and to honour and please the Queen.