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Good, good! But nobody else? No great person? None of the generals?

No, none.

Not here then! Oh, Eutherius, how could you?

Could I help? Could I help it? I have not closed my old eyes for three nights

[To the soldiers.] You must help us to search. I demand it in the name of the general-in-chief. Spread yourselves among the trees; and should you find any great person, report it at the watch-*fire yonder. We will not fail, sir! [''They all go out by different ways, to the left. Soon after, the emerges from behind a tree on the right. He listens, looks round, and beckons to some one behind him.''

Hist! Come forward, Maximus! They did not see us.

[From the same side.] Oribases was one of them.