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At this the most sympathetic of those present began to weep, but it did not occur to Alexander to pity the woman, for he felt that she was too great for that, but he marvelled at her bravery and her words, which touched him greatly, and he issued orders to his officers that they should take good and be on the watch that no such insult should again be offered to a noted house. Timocleia he allowed to go free, both herself and all others who were found to be related to her.
XXV. ERYXO Cf. Herodotus, iv. 160; Polyaenus, Strategemata, viii. 41; Müller, Frag. Histor. Graec. iii. p. 387, Nicolaus Damasc. Frag. 52.