These have been selected with the utmost care. […] Perdix would surely have been drowned, had he not been rescued by Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, who loved him because he was so skillful. […] I will follow you; for if I have been a traitor to my people, I have at least been a friend to you.” […] The wicked people and their dwellings had all been destroyed. […] A strange and beautiful picture it must have been, and I wish all of you could have been there to see it.