FOR a number of days after the interview, Chilo did not show himself anywhere.

Vinicius, since he had learned from Acte that Lygia loved him, was a hundred times more eager to find her, and began himself to search.
He was unwilling, and also unable, to ask aid of Caesar, who was in great fear because of the illness of the infant Augusta.
Sacrifices in the temples did not help, neither did prayers and offerings, nor the art of physicians, nor all the means of enchantment to which they turned finally.

In a week the child died.

Mourning fell upon the court and Rome.

Caesar, who at the birth of the infant was wild with delight, was wild now from despair, and, confining himself in his apartments, refused food for two days; and though the palace was swarming with senators and Augustians, who hastened with marks of sorrow and sympathy, he denied audience to every one.