In addition to all the affection, the wisdom, the glorious beauty, on which his whole heart fed day by day, he believed her to be the possessor of those supernatural powers and favours to which she so boldly laid claim.

And he stood watching her in the doorway, praying in his heart to all gods and demons, principalities and powers, from Athene down to his daughter's guardian spirit, to move a determination which he was too weak to gainsay, and yet too rational to approve.
At last the struggle was over, and she looked up, clear, calm, and glorious again.
'It shall be.

For the sake of the immortal gods--for the sake of art, and science, and learning, and philosophy....

It shall be.

If the gods demand a victim, here am I.If a second time in the history of the ages the Grecian fleet cannot sail forth, conquering and civilising, without the sacrifice of a virgin, I give my throat to the knife.