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Agathon! What say you? Agathon was a boy

Six years ago.—I knew you at once.

[Coming nearer.

Agathon;—by the holy cross, but I believe it is!

Look at me; look well

[Embracing and kissing him.] Friend of my childhood! Playmate! Dearest of them all! And you are here? How wonderful! You have come all the long way over the mountains, and then across the sea,—the whole long way from Cappadocia?

I came two days ago, by ship, from Ephesus. Oh, how I have sought in vain for you these two days. At the palace gates the guards would not let me pass, and

Did you speak my name to any one? or say that you were in search of me?

No, I dared not, because

There you did right; never let any one know more than you needs must.

Come hither, Agathon; out into the full moon