"But now that we stand face to face, man to man, I must close my account with you too.

In your service and by your orders Eulaeus set two assassins to lie in wait for me--" "Publius Cornelius Scipio!" cried the king, interrupting his enemy in an ominous tone; but the Roman went on, calmly and quietly: "I am saying nothing that I cannot support by witnesses; and I have truly set forth, in two letters, that king Euergetes during the past night has attempted the life of an ambassador from Rome.

One of these despatches is addressed to my father, the other to Popilius Lamas, and both are already on their way to Rome.

I have given instructions that they are to be opened if, in the course of three months reckoned from the present date, I have not demanded them back.

You see you must needs make it convenient to protect my life, and to carry out whatever I may require of you.