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| Adriaen Coorte Asparagus ca. 1693-95 oil on paper, mounted on panel Kunsthaus Zürich |
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| Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri Lot and his Daughters 1617 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Ernst Klimt Still Life with Armour ca. 1885 oil on canvas Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Adriaen Brouwer A Porter ca. 1635 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Eugène Delacroix Desdemona cursed by her Father ca. 1852 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
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| Espen Gleditsch Faded Remains (Aphrodite of Knidos) 2017 pigment print KORO (Public Art Norway), Oslo |
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| George Grammer Offshore 1953 oil on canvas Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Nicolas-Henry Jeaurat de Bertry Still Life with Musical Instruments 1756 oil on canvas Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
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| Frans Ykens Christ at the Column, with Garlands ca. 1637 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Sebastian Stoskopff Vanitas Still Life 1641 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Portrait of a Monk ca. 1525-30 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Anni Albers Untitled (Line Involvements II) 1964 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Francis Bacon Study for a Portrait 1953 oil on canvas Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Frans Floris Adam and Eve grieving over the Corpse of Abel ca. 1550 oil on panel Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
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| Dosso Dossi St John the Baptist ca. 1518-20 oil on panel Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Dosso Dossi St John the Baptist (background detail with Baptism of Christ) ca. 1518-20 oil on panel Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
The fatal episode of the two brothers occurs, and they are charged with murder and released; the elder, who has poisoned his brother, brings the charge but by his own suicide exonerates them. Rhodanes gains possession of the poison without being seen.
They stop at the house of a robber who robs travelers and makes a meal of them. Soldiers sent by Damas capture the robber and set fire to his house. They are surrounded by flames and scarcely manage to escape destruction by killing their asses and placing the dead creatures on the flames as a pathway.
During the night they are seen by those who set the fire, and when asked who they are, they answer, "The ghosts of those killed by the robbers." Because of their pale and emaciated appearance and their weak voices they convince the soldiers and frighten them. They flee again from there, overtake the funeral cortege of a young woman, and join the crowd to watch. An aged Chaldaean astrologer arrives and forbids the burial, saying that the young woman is still breathing. That proves to be true. He prophesies to Rhodanes that he will be a king.
– Iamblichus, from A Babylonian Story, written in Greek, 2nd century AD. A summary of the book was composed (also in Greek) in the 9th century by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople. Except for fragments, the original text by Iamblichus was subsequently lost, but the summary by Photius has survived. This was translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989).