The pursuers and pursued were drawing closer together.

The mob was ever reenforced by relays; the handicap on Demetrius was too great.

They had passed down the Vicus Tuscus, flown past the dark shadow of the lower end of the Circus Maximus.

At the Porta Trigemina the unguarded portal had stood open; there was none to stop them.

They passed by the Pons Sublicius, and skirted the Aventine.