[Greek: Aggelos] was roughly written over his head.
The Squire walked up and down with a text of the _Persae_ in his hand.
'"This vase," he dictated, "may be compared with one signed by Xenophantos, in the Paris collection, the subject of which is the Persian king, hunting.

Here we have a Persian king, identified by his dress, apparently receiving a message from his army.

We may illustrate it by the passage in the _Persae_ of AEschylus, where Atossa receives from a messenger the account of the battle of Salamis--a passage which contains the famous lines describing the Greek onslaught on the Persian fleet: '"'Then might you hear a mighty shout arise-- '"'Go, ye sons of Hellas!--free your fathers, free your children and your wives, the temples of your gods, and the tombs of your ancestors.

For now is all at stake!...' '"We may recall also the final summing-up by the [Greek: aggelos] of the Persian defeat-- '"'_Never, on a single day, was there so great a slaying of men._'"' Elizabeth took down the words, first in Greek and then in English.
They rang in her ears, long after she had transcribed them.

The Squire moved up and down in silence, absorbed apparently in the play which he went on reading.
Outside the light was failing.