He strove with all his might to think calmly about searching for her,--and was unable.

A thousand methods and means flew through his head, but one wilder than another.

At last the thought flashed on him that no one else had intercepted her but Aulus, that in every case Aulus must know where she was hiding.

And he sprang up to run to the house of Aulus.
If they will not yield her to him, if they have no fear of his threats, he will go to Caesar, accuse the old general of disobedience, and obtain a sentence of death against him; but before that, he will gain from them a confession of where Lygia is.

If they give her, even willingly, he will be revenged.