ne of the bystanders exclaimed that
Theodorus was pointed out by the inevitable decrees of Fate. We asked no
further questions concerning the matter: for it seemed quite plain to us
that he was the man who was intended."

33. And when he had with this exactness laid the knowledge of this
affair open to the eyes of the judges, he added with great benevolence,
that Theodorus knew nothing of the matter. When after this they were
asked whether the oracles which they had consulted had given them any
foreknowledge of their present sufferings, they repeated these
well-known verses which clearly pronounce that this employment of
investigating those high secrets would cost them their lives.
Nevertheless, they added, that the Furies equally threatened the judges
themselves, and also the emperor, breathing only slaughter and
conflagration against them. It will be enough to quote the three final
verses.

+"Ou man nepoinige son essetai haima, kai autois
Tisiphone barymenis ephoplizei kanion oiton
En pedioisi Mimantos alalemenoisin area."+

"Thy blood shall not fall unaveng'd on earth:
The fierce Tisiphone still keeps her eye
Fixed on thy slayers; arming evil fate
Against them when arrayed on Mima's plain
They seek to stem the tide of horrid war."

When he had read these verses they were both tortured with great
severity, and carried away dead.

34. Afterwards, that the whole workshop where the wickedness had been
wrought might be disclosed to the world, a great number of men of rank
were brought in, among whom were some of the original promoters of the
whole business. And when each, regarding nothing but his own personal
safety, sought to turn the destruction which menaced himself in some
other quarter, by the permission of the judges, Theodorus began to
address them. First of all, he humbled himself with entreaties for
pardon; then being compelled to answer more precisely to the charges
alleged, he proved that he, after having been informed of the whole
affair by Eucaerius, was prevented by him from repeating it to the
emperor, as he had often attempted to do: since Eucaerius affirmed that
what did not spring from a lawless desire of reigning, but from some
fixed law of inevitable fate, would surely come to pass.

35. Eucaerius, when cruelly tortured, confirmed this statement by his own
confession. His own letters were employed to convict Theodorus, letters
which he had written to Hilarius full of indirect