"If that proves true, how I would praise and value men--the majority of whom without their wealth would be poorer than beggars.

But look at yonder figure in the white robe beside the left obelisk--is it not Dion?
The crowd is bearing him away--I think it was he." But she had been deceived; the man whom she fancied she had seen, because her heart so ardently yearned for him, was not near the Sebasteum, and his thoughts were still farther away.
At first he had intended to give the architect the letter which was addressed to him.

He would be sure to find him at the triumphal arch which was being erected on the shore of the Bruchium.

But on reaching the former place he learned that Gorgias had gone to remove the statues of Cleopatra and Antony from the house of Didymus, and erect them in front of the Theatre of Dionysus.

The Regent, Mardion, had ordered it.
Gorgias was already superintending the erection of the foundation.
The huge hewn stones which he required for this purpose had been taken from the Temple of Nemesis, which he was supervising.