These latter rumours were the most persistent and most probable. Judging that the rage of Agamemnon would be terrible and justified, all the honourable Paphians, who happened to be the only ones who had no share in the state funds, forgot that during recent years in Paphos for every reactionary there were ten secret agents. And so they began to externalize their fears and to protest vaguely ‘about the inconsistency of the leadership’ at first, about the ‘leader’ later, and finally about ‘Cinyras’ openly, and to express the conviction that his machinations and shameful treachery would be paid for by - who else - the people! Feeling rose even further when the information leaked out that labyrinthine galleries and safe luxurious hiding-places were being hastily prepared in an abandoned mine,
