As the sun was setting they went in a covered boat through the Agathodamon Canal to Lake Mareotis.

Everything must have been arranged in advance; for they landed precisely at the right hour.
As, during the trip, they had kept up their courage by swallowing the most fiery wine, Philotas had staggered on shore with difficulty and then been dragged forward by the others.

After this he knew nothing more, except that he had rushed with the rest upon a large harmamaxa,--[A closed Asiatic travelling-carriage with four wheels]--and in so doing fell.

When he rose from the earth all was over.
As if in a dream he saw Scythians and other guardians of the peace seize Antyllus, while Caesarion was struggling on the ground with another man.
If he was not mistaken it was Dion, Barine's betrothed husband.
These communications were interrupted by many exclamations of impatience and wrath; but now Didymus, fairly frantic with alarm, cried: "And the child--Barine ?" But when Philotas's sole reply to this question was a silent shake of the head, indignation conquered the old philosopher, and clutching his pupil's chiton with both hands, he shook him violently, exclaiming furiously: "You don't know, scoundrel?
Instead of defending her who should be dear to you as a child of this household, you joined the rascally scorners of morality and law as the accomplice of this waylayer in purple!" Here the architect soothed the enraged old man with expostulations, and the assertion that everything must now yield to the necessity of searching for Barine and Dion.

He did not know which way to turn, in the amount of labour pressing upon him, but he would have a hasty talk with the foreman and then try to find his friend.
"And I," cried the old man, "must go at once to the unfortunate child.-My cloak, Phryx, my sandals!" In spite of Gorgias's counsel to remember his age and the inclement weather, he cried angrily: "I am going, I say! If the tempest hurls me to the earth, and the bolts of Zeus strike me, so be it.