those that were killed. It was discovered however
by the people of Apollonia that this had happened; and when they were
informed of it, they brought him up before a court and condemned him to
be deprived of his eyesight for having fallen asleep during his watch.
But when they had blinded Euenios, forthwith after this their flocks
ceased to bring forth young and their land to bear crops as before. Then
prophesyings were uttered to them both at Dodona and also at Delphi,
when they asked the prophets the cause of the evil which they were
suffering, and they told them 104 that they had done unjustly in
depriving of his sight Euenios the watcher of the sacred sheep; for the
gods of whom they inquired had themselves sent the wolves to attack the
sheep; and they would not cease to take vengeance for him till the men
of Apollonia should have paid to Euenios such satisfaction as he himself
should choose and deem sufficient; and this being fulfilled, the gods
would give to Euenios a gift of such a kind that many men would think
him happy in that he possessed it..

94. These oracles then were uttered to them, and the people of
Apollonia, making a secret of it, proposed to certain men of the
citizens to manage the affair; and they managed it for them thus:--when
Euenios was sitting on a seat in public, they came and sat by him, and
conversed about other matters, and at last they came to sympathising
with him in his misfortune; and thus leading him on they asked what
satisfaction he should choose, if the people of Apollonia should
undertake to give him satisfaction for that which they had done. He
then, not having heard the oracle, made choice and said that if there
should be given him the lands belonging to certain citizens, naming
those whom he knew to possess the two best lots of land in Apollonia,
and a dwelling-house also with these, which he knew to be the best house
in the city,--if he became the possessor of these, he said, he would have
no anger against them for the future, and this satisfaction would be
sufficient for him if it should be given. Then as he was thus
speaking, the men who sat by him said interrupting him: "Euenios, this
satisfaction the Apolloniates pay to thee for thy blinding in accordance
with the oracles which have been given to them." Upon this he was angry,
being thus informed of the whole matter and considering that he had been
deceived; and they bought the property from those who possessed it and
gave