Beauty crowned; or, The story of Esther, the Jewish maiden . mi-ly, and laid a beam across the street, made his son passunder it as under a yoke, with his head covered. * * Livy, i, 26. Poetic Justice. 223 To cover the head was to begin to execute the sen-tence. Philetas—with covered head they broughtinto the palace. * Go, lictor, bind his hands, coverhis head, hang him on the hapless tree. f The suggestion of Harbonah came just at the righttime ; Behold also the gallows fifty cubits high,which Haman had made for Mor-decai, standeth in the house ofHaman. The object of Harbonahmay have been mer
Beauty crowned; or, The story of Esther, the Jewish maiden . mi-ly, and laid a beam across the street, made his son passunder it as under a yoke, with his head covered. * * Livy, i, 26. Poetic Justice. 223 To cover the head was to begin to execute the sen-tence. Philetas—with covered head they broughtinto the palace. * Go, lictor, bind his hands, coverhis head, hang him on the hapless tree. f The suggestion of Harbonah came just at the righttime ; Behold also the gallows fifty cubits high,which Haman had made for Mor-decai, standeth in the house ofHaman. The object of Harbonahmay have been merely to point toanother evidence of Hainans mur-derous spirit. The king, however,thought of something commanded sternly, Hanghim thereon. The sentence is quickly is hurried away, and on the gallows erectedfor Mordecai, high in air, seen by all the inhabitantsof Shushan, hangs the lifeless body of the enemy andadversary of the Jews. u Then was the kings wrathpacified. °Quintus Curtius, vi, 8, 22. f Cicero, Pro C. Eabiiio, iv, Impalement. 22i Beauty Crowned. XV. THE BEGINNING OF THE END. And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman,and gave it unto Mordecai.—Esther viii, 2. The king granted the Jews ... to stand for their life.—Estherviii, 11. The city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.—Esther viii, 15. The Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day.—Estherviii, 17. Upon the execution of a criminal his property wasconfiscated to the crown, according to law. Cyrus, inhis instructions to the governors that were in Syria,said : My will is, that those who disobey these in-structions, and make them void, shall be hung upona cross, and their substance brought into the kingstreasury. * When Oroetes was slain at the commandof Darius, his treasures were conveyed to the king Even when a great man was dismissed indisgrace his property was forfeited to the crown. So, on that very day, the king gave Hainans prop-erty t
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