" The irresistible reason, as well as the proud and resolute bearing of this discourse, set forth with an eloquence which it was not possible for Thucydides to reproducetogether with the age and character of Periclescarried the assent of the assembled people, who when in the Pnyx, and engaged according to habit on public matters, would for a moment forget their private sufferings in considerations of the safety and grandeur of Athens.

FOURTH THE VERDICT Apollo and Hermes once met toward evening on the rocks of Pnyx and were looking on Athens.

" Both gods were immediately carried through the air from Pnyx, and in a few moments they were over a house situated not far from Stoa.

and I walked into the Pnyx early the other morning, before the people assembled.

" Then Socrates, laughing: "My fine fellow, you will have made more than one oration in the Pnyx to-day.

But suppose again, that I believed that Alcibiades had an ulcer on his leg, and were to proclaim the same now to the people, when they come into the Pnyx, should I not be speaking by the spirit of truth?" A.

"By Apollo!" said Alcibiades, "this language is more fit for the tripod in Delphos, than for the bema in the Pnyx.

" Then, smiling sweetly, "Dear boy," said he, "were I such as you fancy, how should I be here now, discoursing with you concerning truth, instead of conning my speech for the Pnyx, like Alcibiades, that I may become a demagogue, deceiving the mob with flattery, and win for myself houses, and lands, and gold, and slave-girls, and fame, and power, even to a tyranny itself?

" Just then the people began to throng into the Pnyx; and we took our places with the rest to hear the business of the day, after Socrates had privately uttered this prayer: "Oh Zeus, give to me and to all who shall counsel here this day, that spirit of truth by which we may behold that whereof we deliberate, as it is in thy sight!" "As I expected," said Templeton, with a smile, as I folded up my manuscript.

Not far from the Areopagus is the Pnyx, where the free people of Athens met in council.

I was asking for you at the Pnyx last night, and Joe Hawdon told me you were awayup the Danube he thought, on a canoe expedition.

Will you dine with me at the Pnyx at seven to-night?

Tell Lister I shall be very pleased to see him if he will look me up at the Pnyx when he is next in town.

He went to the Pnyx on the chance of finding Saltram there, and failing in that, ate his solitary dinner in the coffee-room.

Gilbert did not waste much time over his dinner, and went straight from the Pnyx to the Temple, where John Saltram had a second-floor in Figtree-court.

[Illustration: THE PNYX AT ATHENS.