did bring them to him. But Timagoras, ever disdainful, rejected the gift and the man. Meletus, still in love but also vexed and fed up with the dishonour and the endless trials, took his own life after leaping from the Acropolis.

The goddess of justice, Dike, would not let the boy to gloat and get away with it. The boy took up the birds in his arms, and then, as if by divine intervention dragging him, he too in bad luck threw himself from the rock and perished as well. A statue commemorating