We must be here. Fear not, we shall not miss him.

[Scene II.]The banquet hall.

At a table, on a dais, Zetho, Asander, Gycia, and Senators; Lysimachus, and Courtiers of Bosphorus. Magnates of Cherson at cross tables. Asander, Lysimachus, the Courtiers, and Senators seem flushed with wine.

Zetho. I drink to him whose gracious memory

We celebrate to-day. In all our Cherson,

Which boasts descent from the Athenian race,

Who one time swayed the world, there was no man,

Nor ever had been, fired with deeper love

Of this our city, or more heartfelt pride

In our republican rule (Lysimachus sneers), which free-born men