Last Of The Wine by Mary Renault

Author:Mary Renault
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Historical
Published: 2010-11-22T05:53:43+00:00

When we got back, he came to pay his respects to my father, and they had some talk about the war. Presently my father said, "And Alkibiades, I suppose, is still among the Spartans? Hard living must come easy to him by now."-"No longer, sir," Lysis said. "He sleeps on down; he's in Persia now." We had had this news some months, but I had not mentioned it. My father said, staring, "In Persia? How was he taken? What was he doing, to fall into the barbarians' hands?" -"Why," said Lysis smiling, "he fell as a cat falls in the cream-bowl. Sparta got too hot for him; King Agis got out a warrant for his death. But they say Tissaphernes the satrap thinks the world of him, and that he makes the Persian princes look drab, like cocks beside a pheasant." My father said, "Is it so indeed?" and spoke of other things. That evening, as I passed the courtyard, he was there throwing some broken crocks into the well. Going there by chance soon after, I saw a small sherd lying beside the well-head. The painting looked so delicate that I picked it up; there was a running hare on it, and an outstretched hand. It was a piece from the bowl of Bacchios' wine-cup.

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