At last Periander made a proclamation that whosoever should either receive him into their houses or converse with him should be bound to pay a fine 442 to Apollo, stating the amount that it should be. Accordingly, by reason of this proclamation no one was willing either to converse with him or to receive him into their house; and moreover even he himself did not think it fit to attempt it, since it had been forbidden, but he lay about in the porticoes enduring exposure: and on the fourth day after this, Periander seeing him fallen into squalid misery and starvation felt pity for him; and abating his anger he approached him and began to say: “Son, which of these two is to be preferred, the fortune which thou dost now experience and possess, 443 or to inherit the power and wealth which I possess now, by being submissive to thy father’s will? Thou however, being my son and the prince 444