I had not given this order, and was terribly startled.

When I sought Alexas, he had vanished.

The centurion whom I sent to order the nauarch to give the signal to the other ships to return to the battle, reported that the captain's dead body has just been borne away, but that the command should be given.

How this was done I do not know, but it produced no effect, and no one noticed the anxious waving of my handkerchief.
"We had left Antony's galley--he was standing on the bridge--far behind.
"I had waved my hand as we passed close by, and he hurried down to bend far over the bulwark and shout to me.

I can still see his hands raised to his bearded lips.