With his suspicions thus quickened, every word the luckless Greek uttered went to incriminate him in the mind of the porter.

Agias was certainly an accomplice in the plot against Drusus, sent to the house at an unseasonable hour, on some dark errand.

The porter had freely protested this belief to Falto and his court, and to support his indictment produced the captured dagger, the sure sign of a would-be murderer.

Besides, a large sum of gold was found on Agias's person; his fast Numidian horse was still steaming before the door--and what honest slave could travel thus, with such a quantity of money?
Agias tried to tell his story, but to no effect; Falto and his fellow-judges dryly remarked to one another that the prisoner was trying to clear himself, by plausibly admitting the existence of the conspiracy, but of course suppressing the real details.

Agias reasoned.