But the second did better.

Thus in this way the twenty or so of us managed to prepare a sort of road for the rest, who with hanging heads (though many of them had seemed our best men) advanced along it without even dismounting! But this was no time for reproof or authority.

Every man of spirit hastens to such work of himself, and the rest do not count.

In this way after three or four days we reached a cave at the foot of the Zirrin Pass.

That day the wind and storm were dreadful; the snow fell in quantities; we all expected to meet death together.