ately set about erecting a statue to their benefactor in the midst of the city. Upon the base was the following inscription.
TO APOLLONIUS, OF TYRE,
THE PRESERVER OF OUR STATE;
AND TO THE MOST HOLY THARSIA,
HIS VIRGIN DAUGHTER.
A few days after, the lady was espoused to Athanagoras, amid the universal joy of the city.
Intending to sail with his daughter and son-in-law, and followers, to his own country, by way of Tharsus, an angel admonished him in a dream to make for Ephesus (81), and there, entering the temple, relate in a loud voice, all the varied turns of fortune to which he had been subject from his earliest youth. Accordingly he sailed for Ephesus. Leaving his ship, he sought out the temple to which his long-lost wife had retired; and then, arrayed in all his regal ornaments, he entered with an honourable escort. The surrounding multi-
