He had come to her because he wished to come, because he judged that she would give him information; but really he had come to Caesar, and, not being able to see him, he came to her.

Lygia, by fleeing, opposed the will of Caesar; hence he would implore him to give an order to search for her throughout the city and the empire, even if it came to using for that purpose all the legions, and to ransacking in turn every house within Roman dominion.
Petronius would support his prayer, and the search would begin from that day.
"Have a care," answered Acte, "lest thou lose her forever the moment she is found, at command of Caesar." Vinicius wrinkled his brows.

"What does that mean ?" inquired he.
"Listen to me, Marcus.

Yesterday Lygia and I were in the gardens here, and we met Poppaea, with the infant Augusta, borne by an African woman, Lilith.

In the evening the child fell ill, and Lilith insists that she was bewitched; that that foreign woman whom they met in the garden bewitched her.