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not know. But we are told that she afterwards ap-
peared to him in a dream and said that she was cold,
being destitute of clothes. The garments he had
buried with her were of no use to her spirit, since
they had not been burned. Periander took his own
way to quiet and clothe the restless ghost. He pro-
claimed that all the wives of Corinth should go to
the temple of Juno. This they did, dressed in their
best, deeming it a festival, When they were all
within he closed the doors, and had them stripped
of their rich robes and ornaments, which he threw
into a pit and set on fire, calling on the name of
Melissa as they burned. And in this way the de-
mand of the shivering ghost was satisfied.

Periander had two sons,—the elder a dunce, the
younger, Lycophron (or wolf-heart), a youth of noble
nature and fine intellect. He sent them on a visit to
Proclus, their mother’s father, and from him the boys
learned, what they had not known before, that their
father was their mother’s murderer.

This story did not trouble the dull-brained elder,
but Lycophron was so affected by it that on his
return home he refused to speak to his father, and
acted so surlily that Periander in anger turned him
out of his house. The tyrant, learning from his
elder son the cause of Lycophron’s strange behavior,
grew still more incensed. He sent orders to those
who had given shelter to his son that they should
cease to harbor him. And he continued to drive him
from shelter to shelter, till in the end he proclaimed
that whoever dared to harbor, or even speak to, his
rebellious son, should pay a heavy fine to Apollo.

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