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they followed in Eubea , one, to wit, followed the trade°f a ferryman, another that of a murex-fisher, anotherof a sailor, and a fourth a dyer of purple. They foundalso some elegiac verses inscribed on the tomb of certainsailors and pilots, to the following effect. “We who for-merly ploughed the deep iEgean, lie here in a strange landin the midst of the Ecbatani. Farewel land of Eretria , ofold renowned. Farewel Athens, near Eubea , and fare-wel sweet sea.” Damis writes that Apollonius repairedthe mouldering sepulchres, and built an enclosure roundthem—that he offered libations, and performed all ritesdue to their manes without victims, and the shedding ofblood.—Damis adds, he wept, and in the sadness of hisheart uttered these W’ords in the midst of them. “ O yemen of Eretria , who w ere carried here by the decrees offate; though far from home you obtained a grave; butthey who cast you on this land, perished unburied aboutyour island ten years after your captivity.” Apollonius atthe end of his epistle to the sophist, says, O Scopelianus,*though young, I have not neglected your Eretrians, andhave done all the good I could to the living and dead.But in what way did he render any service to the living ?I will tell you. The barbarians who lived in the vicinityof the hill of which we have spoken, used to come in thesummer and carry off all the ripe corn; in consequenceof which the Eretrians, who cultivated it, were exposed tofamine and want. Apollonius in the first audience hehad with the King, obtained a grant, by which the soleuse and enjoyment exclusively of this hill was for ever se-cured to them.