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As soon as he received the intelligence, Thonis sent a message to
Proteus, who was at Memphis, to this effect: "A stranger is
arrived from Greece; he is by race a Teucrian, and has done a wicked
deed in the country from which he is come. Having beguiled the wife of
the man whose guest he was, he carried her away with him, and much
treasure also. Compelled by stress of weather, he has now put in
here. Are we to let him depart as he came, or shall we seize what he
has brought?" Proteus replied, "Seize the man, be he who he may,
that has dealt thus wickedly with his friend, and bring him before me,
that I may hear what he will say for himself."
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