"I have no means of paying a ransom.

My patron is not here to protect or rescue me.

I have nothing to plunder.

_Mu! mu!_ set me free, most noble pirate! Oh! most excellent prince, what have I done, that you should bear a grudge against me ?" "Get up, fellow," snapped Demetrius; "I'm not one of those crocodile-headed Egyptian gods that they grovel before in the Nile country.

My cousin Agias here says he knows you.