This is when Damon came to the fore in defense of the honor of his long time friend. Damon volunteered to be imprisoned for 30 days during his friend’s absence. If Pithiest did not return after a month, Damon would die in his place.
The long and short of it is, after 30 days, Pithiest was nowhere to be found.
“Oh, no,” I hear you gasp. “How could it be?”
Exactly. But, anyways, on the 31st day, Damon was taken out to be hung. And just as they tied the noose round Damon’s neck, Pythias returned.
It turned out that Pythias had merely been delayed as he was hindered by all sorts of difficulties he ran into, as one can imagine. One can easily imagine, of course, given the commercial situation today, how it is far easier for banks and people to lend out money than it is to ask the money back.
Anyways, in the end, the king, moved by the friendship of Damon and Pythias, set both free.
Damon and Pythias, hence, has been a symbol of trust and friendship, a bond so strong that even the threat of death cannot break.
I, incidentally, first came across “Damon and Pythias” many years ago in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a book by Robert Louis Stevenson. In that book “Damon and Pythias” was mentioned to describe the relationship between Dr Jekyll and Dr Lanyon, or rather the former relationship between the two colleagues. Now, the two hardly talked to each other because of Dr. Jekyll’s scientific heresies, his strange unorthodox medical experiments. “Such unscientific balderdash”, said Lanyon, “flushing suddenly purple” as he described the end of their friendship to Mr Utterson, the lawyer, “would’ve estranged Damon and Pythias.”
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