Thalia   

the quarrel and injured Periander by an outrage of a horrid nature.
After Periander had put to death his wife Melissa, it chanced that
on this first affliction a second followed of a different kind. His
wife had borne him two sons, and one of them had now reached the age
of seventeen, the other of eighteen years, when their mother's father,
Procles, tyrant of Epidaurus, asked them to his court. They went,
and Procles treated them with much kindness, as was natural,
considering they were his own daughter's children. At length, when the
time for parting came, Procles, as he was sending them on their way,
said, "Know you now, my children, who it was that caused your mother's
death?" The elder son took no account of this speech, but the younger,
whose name was Lycophron, was sorely troubled at it- so much so,
that when he got back to Corinth, looking upon his father as his
mother's murderer, he would neither speak to him, nor answer when
spoken to, nor utter a word in reply to all his questionings. So
Periander at last, growing furious at such behaviour, banished him
from his house.
The younger son gone, he turned to the elder and asked him,
"what it was that their grandfather had said to them?" Then he related
in how kind and friendly a fashion he had received them; but, not
having taken any notice of the speech which Procles had uttered at
parting, he quite forgot to mention it. Periander insisted that it was
not possible this should be all- their grandfather must have given
them some hint or other- and he went on pressing him, till at last the
lad remembered the parting speech and told it. Periander, after he had
turned the whole matter over in his thoughts, and felt unwilling to
give way at all, sent a messenger to the persons who had opened
their houses to his outcast son, and forbade them to harbour him. Then
the boy, when he was chased from one friend, sought refuge with
another, but was driven from shelter to shelter by the threats of
his father, who menaced all those that took him in, and commanded them
to shut their doors against him. Still, as fast as he was forced to
leave one house he went to another, and was received by the inmates;
for his acquaintance, although in no small alarm, yet gave him
shelter, as he was Periander's son.
At last Periander made proclamation that whoever harboured his son
or even spoke to him, should forfeit a certain sum of money to Apollo.
On hearing this no one any longer liked to take him in, or even to
hold converse with him, and he himself did not think it right to
seek to do what was forbidden; so, abiding by his resolve, he made his
lodging in the public porticos. When four days had passed in this way,
Periander, secing how wretched his son was, that he neither washed nor
took any food, felt moved with compassion towards him; wherefore,
foregoing his anger, he approached him, and said, "Which is better,
oh! my son, to fare as now thou farest, or to receive my crown and all
the good things that I possess, on the one condition of submitting
thyself to thy father? See, now, though my own child, and lord of this
wealthy Corinth, thou hast brought thyself to a beggar's life, because
thou must resist and treat with anger him whom it least behoves thee
to oppose. If there has been a calamity, and thou bearest me ill
will on that account, bethink thee that I too feel it, and am the
greatest sufferer, in as much as it was by me that the deed was
done. For thyself, now that thou knowest how much better a thing it is
to be envied than pitied, and how dangerous it is to indulge anger
against parents and superiors, come back with me to thy home." With
such words as these did Periander chide his son; but the son made no
reply, except to remind his father that he was indebted to the god
in the penalty for coming and holding converse with him. Then
Periander knew that there was no cure for the youth's malady, nor
means of overcoming it; so he prepared a ship and sent him away out of
his sight to Corcyra, which island at that time belonged to him. As
for Procles, Periander, regarding him as the true author of all his
present troubles, went to war with him as soon as his son was gone,
and not only made himself master of his kingdom Epidaurus, but also