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After the young man's departure, King Antiochus called for his reliable steward Thaliarchus and said to him: "Thaliarchus, as my trusted confidant, you know that Apollonius of Tyre has found the solution to my riddle. Board a ship immediately and go in pursuit of the young man. When you reach his native Tyre, you will find an enemy of his to kill him with a sword or poison. After you return, you will have your liberty."
After hearing this, Thaliarchus took money and poison, boarded a ship, and set sail for Apollonius's homeland. Apollonius, however, reached his homeland first, unharmed. He entered his house, opened the bookcase, and studied the riddles of all the philosophers and astrologers. When he found nothing except what he had already discerned, he said to himself: "What are you doing, Apollonius? You have solved the king's riddle, you have not won his daughter. You've been fobbed off only to be killed later."
And he ordered that ships be loaded with grain. Apollonius himself with a few of his most trustworthy slaves accompanying him secretly boarded a ship. Taking with him a great amount of gold and silver and an abundance of clothing, he entrusted himself to the high seas during the deep silence of midnight.
The next day the citizens of his city came to greet him, but he was not to be found. The entire city resounded with the shouts of grief and wailing. So great was his subjects' love for him that for a long time the barbershops were without customers, the public entertainments were suspended, and the baths were closed.
– from The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre, after anonymous Latin manuscripts of the 5th-6th century AD translating a lost Greek text of the 2nd-3rd century AD, and translated into English by Gerald N. Sandy (1989)